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im wondering what the ballpark price is for most people who bought their invitations - not DIY???
I paid about $60 for 100 DIY invites at Micheals. Really super easy to do!
eta: sorry. Missed the not DIY part. = (
i think it would cost me more to do what i want if i DIY because i would have to get all the supplies :(
and not a problem - im just trying to see if this place im thinking of using is reasonable or not. i really hav eno idea lol
I got my invites from 123print.com. 100 invites for less than $100 and I loved them!
My DIY costed out for 50 were about $50. So about $100 or so. That's not counting ink and if I buy stamps or anything. Also they weren't pocketfolds which I priced out to about $75 for 50 of them. I guess it just depends on what you're looking for.
I'm so far off your chart I don't even think I should answer this one! :) Mine were a splurge, but I love them (even though yes, I know people just throw them away.)
We're getting ours done by a friend so she is charging us less than normal, but depending on which we pick they will be $1-2 each, plus envelopes and reply cards (which she hasn't priced out yet). It seems to me like most places charge between $3-5 (Canadian). But obviously you can get something outside those prices! I have several friends who made their own, are you just worried about being crafty, or prices? They found it to be cheaper.
I DIYed ours and I paid 73.40 for 200sheets of particular card to produce 170 invites. and 30 dollars for paper to make the belly band, borrowed a cuttlebug off a friend. And the ribbon I had leftover from making ribbon pomanders. Since living in australia there isnt a real variety for competitive shipping, so it made sense for us to make our own and also our city is 4hrs from the nearest capital leaving not much range for ours to be made and I really like the end result for our DIY.
ours will be ~$250 for 60 pocketfold invites (with 2 inserts) thru an etsy seller.
Ours were about $2000 for 75 tri-pocket letterpress invitations. I designed them myself and used professional paper and printing companies for the production.
I think all the professional made invitations I priced out were anywhere from $3 to $10 each.
I tried to DIY but I am just... not good so I scrapped that plan and returned all my materials (return shipping for some things cost a pretty penny!). We ordered thermography invites, RSVP cards, (outer and response envelopes included) from My Gatsby. They're super customizable and we've received so many compliments on them already!
With a coupon code, the total cost for 175 sets was about #250, shipped. I really recommend them!
i payed $3000 for 150 custom letterpress invites. They were pricey. But they were gorgeous
We are paying $380 for sixty sets on invitations including a a customized map. We are using an Etsy vendor.. I love our invitations... they are very colorful.
We spent $600 for STD and about $2000 for invites not including thank yous/menus but they are one of the priciest parts of my wedding...I loved the invites and wanted custom letter pressing, imprinting, etc and they are Vera Wang.
I do plan to DIY my programs with the help of my wonderful and artistic hubby to be....
@barista do you think we could use the michaels invite program to make programs?
We're a special case (I voted "other")...we're 'DIY'ing the design, but printing the finished product at a local printer ($2 cheaper than Fedex Office - formerly Kinko's). Ours will be $4/invite, but our wedding is pretty small (68 invited - so about 30+ invites), so the "splurge" isn't all that much. And, unlike most invites, we're making ours rather useful - a personalized "Disney" map for our Disneyland Hotel wedding, so we're not too worried about people trashing them...they will serve their purpose & some people (okay, the moms) will save them, so well worth the time & effort.
we're paying about $9 per invitation and $10.75 with calligraphy including:
invite
rsvp
reception card
velum wrap (similar to our STD, picture to follow)
double envelope
custom envelope liner on inner and rsvp
calligraphy on both inner and outter
all envelopes stuffed and ready to go
our STD:
Our STDs were $8 each. we are also doing a reception package including table numbers, place cards, ceremony programs, cake flags, signs for gift/guest book/place card table, petal cones, favor tags, etc. in total, we're spending about $2,300 for 80 pieces.
im also having my designer do tags for all the girls dresses, custom note card sets for the BM gifts, and a couple other little things.
Ours will be around $4 each all told for a single 5" x 7" card plus envelope, but they're also two-color letterpress cards, so they were a lot more than offset printing would have been. I did the design, which saved a lot, and it happens that our local printer is also one of the cheapest letterpress options out there. Envelopes are coming from Paper Source and I'll print them myself. Still adds up, though...
well maybe the price quotes im getting arent that bad? the ones i really really want are about $560 for 85.... but they are purty!! *blushes* im thinking the menus or programs will be more stock type than these though..
I'm paying about $2000 for 125 custom designed invitations. If I hadn't found this designer, I would have gone with Bella Figura or Smock, both of which are either equally as expensive or a little more.
@clairdarling: your STDs are GORGEOUS!! Can't wait to see the invitations!
oh, sorry, I voted before I read the "bought - not DIY" comment.
We're DIYing and should be able to stay under $100 for 100 invites. Not including postage.
I priced them out and I needed about 110 invitations and they were well in the $800 range for the ones I liked. I couldn't get anything lower than $500 and the $500 ones just weren't worth me spending my money on. I didn't like 'em enough to spend $500.
Paid $160 for everything and did them myself. Liked 'em more and saved the dinero!
My Fi's boss's fiancee is making ours for $350. We're getting 100 invites with the pocketfold, reception, response and direction card all included. I was initially going to DIY, but then saw her designs and scratched that idea! I probably would have ended up spending more than that just trying to DIY (because I'm so indecisive!)
Postage is what did us in. We had to use three .44 cent stamps per invite.
I bought our invites from a local artist (who is also on Etsy) for ~$2/invite with envelope and reply card. They were really fun and fit our personality. She will also do custom artwork of a photo or place significant to you an your FI. We were able to pass pdf proofs back and forth until we had something we liked. PM me if you are interested in seeing the final product.
Just FYI, your poll may be really off depending on the number of invitations people ordered. I am spending less than $4 per invite.
I've done recently a change of heart on my invites and am using a different etsy vendor for them as I've gotten busier and don't have time to even semi-diy them! I have other projects I want to diy and have decided to outsource totally the whole invitation suite, but will spend about 275-300 for about 50 invites.
The vendor is even making me the personalized door hangers for the oot bags and am getting some luggage tags made by her to send out to my guests after they send in a "yes" on the rsvp! It's gonna look great and I'm happy as it's still in the same range almost as before, price-wise.
$77.00 for 100 invites from zazzle.com. Haven't received them yet, but really excited.
We got ours custom from Printable Press. It was $380 to design the invite, RSVP, Accomodations and Directions inserts from scratch. It was $200 to get 120 printed from Staples but I got a discount from a friend. I think the true cost was closer to $300 but this had a lot to do with the paper we chose. The envelopes cost about $60 from California Paper Company - there were a lot of mistakes since we printed them. That's the only part we did ourselves. So total cost was $640 for 120 completely custom invitations.
After seeing one of the bees blog about this, I too am using Womancraft, which ranges from 3.25-4.25 per invitation.
Even though I guess I could diy them cheaper, I can afford it and I feel really good about giving my money to a non profit organization that helps women get back on their feet by giving them jobs instead of to "the man."
We just used email STDs and then hired a custom invitation designer - Janet at Izzygirl.com - to do our wedding invitations because I just HAD to have letterpress! lol. I think she did a wonderful job and the cost was really reasonable considering that we had letterpress with espresso ink, heavy ivory cardstock (220lb) with crystal embellishments, response postcards, website information insert, lace/linen wrap with twine and monogram tag, espresso invitation boxes filled with moss, plastic mailing sleeves for the boxes and wrap around labels that matched the graphics on the invitations. Janet also was so sweet and helped me design our bar menu and wedding program fans using graphics to again match - at no charge! I believe our final total was about $1000 for 45 sets.
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Ours will cost around $170, but we are working with FI's Aunt who works for a major national printing company so we get 50% off all products.
Free! My Maid of Honour (or Awesomeness, as I like to call her) is an artist/graphic designer, so she designed and paid for the whole thing. I probably would have spent between $200 and $300 were this not the case, because it's a detail I'm not overly obsessed about. The invitations include envelope, liner, postage, actual invitation, RSVP card, and mini-map/website info. It's a wonderful wedding gift, plus she gets to build her portfolio and we get custom invites made with love.
Our save the dates were probably around $75 total. Postage was actually the most expensive part, as we put them in Christmas cards for our family and family friends. The actual STDs were photos from our engagement session. We went out around our town with a hand-painted poster that read "We're getting married! Save the date: May 22nd, 2010." I bartered the photography session with a fine arts student who needed models, and we printed the STDs at Walmart. Everyone loved them because they were simple, fun, and extremely to the point! It was also great because there were family members on my side who hadn't met my FI at that point, so they were able to put a face to his name.
im having mine currently worked on from esty, 50 sets for 290 total (including shipping)
Ours were about $300 for 100 invites. I love them. They were the only invites I came across that I even ending up liking at all.
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