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Ok Hive, So I'm doing my own invites, and I need your guys unbiased opinion of what I've put together

We are having an untraditional wedding in many ways, so I wanted to do non traditional invites as well.  We are having a Friday night wedding, doing tapas (passed and at stations) instead of a sitdown dinner, and having the ceremony and reception in a converted warehouse space, so I think this invite reflects the uniqueness of our wedding.  I've designed everything on Photoshop, without a clue of what I was doing...which meant a lot of trial and error.  

The invite: The picture is from a vintage photobooth, and I'm going to mount the actual invites on a piece of 5x7 card stock.

RSVP: Its a postcard instead of the traditional reply card so we can save $$

The info card:  its about the size of a business card, well a little bigger.  My though it to send everyone to our blog for all the other information instead of a whole bunch of inserts to save which will save paper and money.

The Envelope: A Black A7 envelope with a wraparound label.  My plan is to do a mail merge document for the individual labels since I already have a spreadsheet with everyones names and addresses.  To get the custom hight and length for them I'm going to print them on full sheet, 8.5x11, labels and then cut them into the individual labels.  

So, what do you guys think?

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Thanks everyone, I really appreciate the support!!  I'm a creative person, but don't get to use my creativity that often, so it makes me doubt myself sometimes.  Its nice to have positive feedback.

@abbee.  I did all of the layout my self, the graphic on the RSVP I got a while ago, but don't remember where.  First we used it for our email Save the Date and then I replaced the STD info with the RSVP.  I downloaded the free 30 day trial of photoshop to do it all, so if I want to do anything else I have about 26 days left!

@fanatic888...I wanted to do an online RSVP on our blog originally to, but we decided against it to appease some involved who want more traditional elements to the wedding and I was concerned that some people might not figure it out, or put it off and never get around to doing it.  With the actual postcard, its a physical reminder for them to RSVP. Oh no, thanks for the heads up on the polar-bear stamp.  I guess I will just have to hope they release some new stamps come spring time when I'm getting ready to send them out.

@ccranetobe...Most of our guest do have internet so we aren't that worried.  Of all of our guests, the ones who don't have it or aren't that tech savvy are for the most part local relatives, who really won't need the directions or accommodation information, and that what most of the info on the blog is.

@jordynrose...thanks!  at first I was concerned that it was a little narcissistic, by my mom re-assured me it wasn't.  Plus the photos are special too.   He proposed to me in Chicago, where I used to live and I am still madly in love with the city, and we took the pictures the night after we got engaged, when we were out celebrating at my favorite Chicago bar!

Thanks again everyone.

The other think I forgot to ask was when I'm sending them, should I make some sort of band to keep everything together, or should I just put everything in the envelope loose?  I's love to do some sort of pocket thing, but those are just too expensive.

@Veganglam....I haven't really done the math, but lets see what I can figure out.  I found envelopes and the precut cardstock at cutcardstock.com for $24.75 for 150 envelopes and $21.75 for 150 black, flat, pre-cut 5x7 pieces of cardstock.  I'm sure it would be cheaper to but 8.5x11 and cut them myself, but I'm willing to splurge on the convenience of pre-cut.  Shipping is $8.12, which all equals $54.62.  As for the everything else, I plan on using a local print shop, but don't know how much they charge.  From what I hear, they are very reasonable. To get an idea though, I looked on vistaprint.com and for 150 5x7 photocards its $102.98, its $19.99 for 250 business cards (which are about the size of the info cards), and $79.98 for full color post cards (however, the ones they are showing are bigger than mine, I designed mine to fit four per 8.5x11 page, so hopefully they'll be cheaper!)  So grand total is...$257.57.    Ouch, I didn't expect it to be that much, but hopefully since I'm using a local printer, and designed everything to fit multiples per page, it will come out cheaper.  Ideally, I would only need 75 copies of the invitation, 18 of the info card and 37 of the post card, so we'll see.  I'll update hopefully once I actually go to the printer!!

it looks great! wow!!

UPDATE!!

So I took the invites to the printer and they were not the right resolution for printing.  The graphic would have been fuzzy.   So I kind of had to start over.  I found the two images on istockphoto.com that were used to make the graphic and started over making the graphic at the right resolution, 300dpi.

I just got the proofs back from the printer and they look great.  If you are in Milwaukee and need a printer I highly recommend Clark Graphics on Oakland.  From the proof I decided I wanted a black frame around the back of the RSVP, one cuz there is too much white and two it will match the black frame that will be on the invite once i mount it on the cardstock.  So I'm going back tomorrow with the edited RSVP, then It will be a go to print them all!

BEST PART IS...the total for all the printing and cutting of 150 Invites, doublesided RSVP postcards and info cards is only $147 so basically $1 for each 3 piece invitation set. (not including envelopes, but I've priced those at $30 for 150 envelopes, still not bad in my book!!