Do-it-yourself Wedding Invitations Can be Fun and Unique

Many brides find that while there are a lot of suitable wedding invitations, their perfect invitation is often a combination of colors, styles and creations.  Most commercial printers don’t allow this sort of amalgamation, so what is a bride to do?  In this situation, the best answer just might be hand-made wedding invitations. 

Personalization

You want your very own special look for your wedding. And your wedding invitation should be as stylish and unique as you are.  If you do choose to hand make your wedding invitations you’ll able to customize so many aspects of your invitation to suit your taste.  You can even personalize your invitations for each guest if you choose.  You can add your very own personal touches with plant-able paper (a new eco friendly favorite) a swatch of fabric, a wax stamp, flower petals, or ribbon to match your color or pattern.  Your only limit is your own imagination. And if you don’t know where to start, there are many DIY wedding invitation kits available to get you started down the right path. 

Wedding invitation party

Once you decide to hand make your wedding invitations, you may discover that you need some help.  Enlist the aid of your bridal party and have your own wedding invitation making party.  Many brides have called on their maid-of-honor and brides maids to pitch in with their invitations. If you’re inviting a lot of guests, you’ll be happy to have the help.  And your bridal party just might have a clever touch or charming accent that you hadn’t thought of. Alternately, many brides have enlisted the help of their grooms for the invitation project.  In either case, you’ll have fun putting together an invitation that you made with love. 

A chance for savings

Hand making your wedding invitations can also be a source of savings.  You can pick out paper and accents that not only fit your style, but fit your budget.  This will help you gauge your expenses as you go.  And if you’re printing your invitations at home on your own printer, you can count on more savings there.  If you’re starting with a DIY wedding kit it can be as simple or as complex as you like, so you have a great chance to save some cash.

Some limitations

There are a few things to know when you’re planning on making your own wedding invitations.  First of all, making your own wedding invitations can be very time consuming.  Make sure you’ve set aside enough time if your schedule to be able to get your save-the-date cards and invitations in the mail on time.  If you’re wedding invitations are lovely, but late, your guests will be slightly less impressed.  You should also try to keep your imagination in check.  If you get too creative, you may find yourself needing additional postage on your invitations and incurring costs you didn’t count on.  You might try taking a sample invitation to your local post office and have them weigh it just in case.  You don’t want to find out that you needed more postage by having your wonderful, handmade invitations sent back to you for insufficient postage.

Hand made invitations can be a wonderful, personal accent to your wedding day.  If you find that taking on the project of making all of your invitations is just too time consuming you have other options.  Put your creative touch on your escort cards, ceremony programs, or even post-wedding thank-you cards. 

Satisfy all of your creative wedding invitation needs at MyExpression.com.  We’ve also got many great resources and advice for creating your perfect wedding invitation.

About the Author

Amy Carter is is a former wedding and event planner with lots of great tips, tricks and advice to make your wedding spectacular and your next event stellar. Check out MyExpression.com they have plenty of wedding invitations and much more for all of your wedding stationery needs.

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