Make Your Own Wedding Invitations

If your plan is to make your own wedding invitations, the first thing you’ll have to know is how many people you intend to invite. It stands to reason that the fewer people invited translates into how elaborate you can afford to be in creating your invitations.

For instance, if you are planning to invite only a handful of people, and you have given yourself plenty of time, you can get as creative as you want with the invitations. You can hand-letter them yourself on vellum, attach dried flowers, photographs, detailed maps, etc. But if you’re planning on a crowd for your wedding day, you’d better have a pretty simple idea of creating your own invitations or else give yourself months to get them ready to send.

LCI Paper

At LCI Paper, you can find everything you need for simple, yet elegant, do-it-yourself invitations. One of their products, blank computer invitations, allows you to print your information using either laser or inkjet printers two at a time. The cards feature perforated edges that you simply tear off, leaving two neat, elegant invitations.

The cardstock comes in five different colors and you can add matching, pearl-foil envelopes to send the invitations as well as response envelopes. LCI’s blank invitations come in many themes: destinations, romance, flowers, hearts, and international. In addition to invitations, the company also offers 16 wedding invitation kits in an array of different styles and themes.

A Wedding Day

Another online site where you can make your own wedding invitations is www.A-WeddingDay.com. Here you purchase downloadable software that features templates you use to create your own invitations, envelopes, and place cards on your own computer and then print them out using your own laser or inkjet printer.

You can also select bulletin, note card, greeting card, and planner templates. Additionally, A Wedding Day also offers a huge selection of stationery on which to print your invitations and any other types of printed material you may need. Just a few of their stationery design themes include double hearts, pink rose petals, scalloped seashells, periwinkles, calla lilies, hydrangeas, and many more.

Go For the Best

When you make your own wedding invitations, always choose the best quality of paper you can afford – no matter how small a wedding you are planning on having. Heavy, off-white, ivory, or ecru paper teamed with a dark black, script-style font works best for formal, elegant weddings, but you can play around a little with more relaxed affairs.

Try blues, grays, and light greens with bold font styles and different-colored ink on the lettering for a light, lovely feeling of romantic casualness. Just make sure the colors complement one another and that nothing clashes.

Try to have a little fun if you decide to make your own wedding invitations – even if you’re “going formal.” The mood you’re in while creating them will almost certainly reflect on your work, and you most certainly want everything to come across in a positive way. So take your time, plan well in advance of the big day, and go ahead – create just the right invitations for however many people you wish to invite and then go to it! There’s no time like the present to get started!