Homemade Wedding Invitations • 4/26/07
If you’re about to get married soon and the date is creeping up on you quickly, you might think twice about making your own homemade wedding invitations. The amount of time and skill needed to plan, cut, and print your own wedding invites is beyond even the most ambitious of brides. Plus, not everyone is an artist or graphic designer.
Sure, you could ask a friend or acquaintence to help out with the design or preparation of the invites (and this might be a good idea anyway for those larger weddings requiring 200+ invitations). So, most people opt for just ordering a professionally printed wedding invitation package to cut out all of the hassle. The problem is that getting stuff professionally printed can cost a couple of arms and legs. And there’s the additional risk of leaving a third party all that responsibility.
Well, if you should choose to go the DIY route for your invites, you might want to consider getting a “wedding invitation kit” instead of desigining them entirely from scratch. This compromise might be the way to go. Having blank invites keeps the cost down by allowing you to print them yourself.
There are a ton of paper companies that specialize in wedding invite kits. LCI Paper is one of them that has a good selection along with helpful information about how to print on the cards, what kind of words to put on the invite as well as a great “design studio” with instructions for those who DO want to try their hand at making the entire invitation.
As said before, kits can make things quicker and cheaper than doing everything yourself. LCI has a number of kits but we picked out their Lime Pearlised Wrap Kits to show here. The kit comes in sets of 50 and features invitation cards, the lime pearlized wraps, silver envelope seals and white invitation envelopes. The pearlised papers are a special opaque and lightweight green with a metallic silver floral print overlaid on top of it. The invitation card itself is radiant white and is the longer “tea-length” type of card. They also include silver envelope seals and standard white #10 envelopes.
These are rather nice, and as said before the great thing is that since most people have access to a printer nowadays, you can put whatever you want on them yourself and at the last minute if need be (see the links above for tips on self-printing). Have a look at the site, they have a ton of other kits plus instructions for completely DIY invites should you feel ambitious.
Lime Pearlised Wrap Kit
$40/set of 50 at LCI Paper
