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How big are the invites and what style are they? Is it a flat card, etc? What size are your envelopes. Cardstock is what came to mind too.
Did your online vendor tell you what kind of paper they were going to print on?
If you have nothing important on the back, attaching colored, textured cardstock, with enough room for a little border, will help a lot! I had to do this with some Vistaprint invites I ordered and it seriously made all the difference.
The important part though, it to make sure the glue you are using is not too wet (it will warp the paper), and that it is very strong, (I had a few peel away from the cardstock in the mail, the guest were like: "um, why did you include a random piece of colored paper in my invite?"
Best of luck!
@Oracle and @Paperbuttons -- thanks, I am stressing here! The thought of having to do a rush order and waste $ is not at all sitting well with me. The invites are on a flat card of 5.5 in x 5.5 in with no text on the back, there isn't much room for a border though, my FI says there is maybe a quarter inch all around size difference between the invite and the envelope. The vendor did say that the invites would be printed on handmade silk paper, I think we just didn't expect it to look like copy paper!! In terms of the glue, should I use a spray adhesive? I seem to remember something like that from one of the Bees' posts (Jellyfish maybe?).
I was thinking double stick tape (they have rollers that are super easy to use - so you aren't trying to measure each piece). I haven't worked with the spray stuff - although, with the silk paper, you'd have to do some tests.
check out cardsandpockets.com - they'll likely be a pretty cheap place to buy that size paper for a backing.
Definitely use double stick tape or mounting squares. That's what I used to attach our invites to pocketfolds and it worked really well. Spray adhesive would be tough on a 5.5" square piece because it can be hard to reposition, and it's a huge mess.
It was the spray stuff that came unglued for me, but I think the trick is to stick it together really quickly and put it under weight to dry fully (like, keep it under a few books for several hours). But double stick tape might be a better bet, that stuff is strong.
As far as borders go, mine was a little less than a quarter of an inch, actually, and it still really helped everything look more professional. The sturdiness it added was what really counted.
I would also suggest adding a colored cardstock backing. If you already have your envelopes (probably 6" squares) you'll have to cut your invitations a little bit so that they'll fit. Even a small 0.25" border will look nice and add the weight you are looking for.
I would suggest using glue dots, double sided scrapbooking tape or spray adhesive. I have a really hard time with the tape runners that look like white out tape runners. I ended up wasting alot of product. The spray adhesive was by far the fastest.
ok, I'm gonna be the idiot and nosey one and ask:
who did you use?!?!? I'm DYING of curiosity here!!! lol
I second what the others bees suggest.
you could probably also get away with using cardstock like for scrapbooks. scrapbook paper is often fairly thick and a lot is ANYTHING but flimsy!
good luck and so sorry you're having to deal with this!!!!
@sf_carrie:How did it go? Hope they weren't as bad as your FI described!
An update: so no, they weren't as bad as my FI thought. He's never seen art papers with a lot of visible fibers before and was expecting something like the cardstock ones he has seen previously. In that sense, the invites were very soft/flimsy. We did ended up buying larger envelopes (6 in x 6 in) and gluing cardstock backing to each of the invites (using a brush-on paper cement), a half inch border all around (so the invites looked like they had a mat around them). All in all, we managed to salvage them but it was a serious time-suck between finding the supplies, cutting the backings to fit, gluing, etc when we are already super crunched for time. I hadn't planned on my invites being a DIY project. Anyway, it was a very good lesson for us that for any remaining projects, we will order paper samples beforehand!! Thank you all for the advice!
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Hi Bees-
So our invitations arrived from our online vendor and my fiance just opened the package and phoned me at work. The good news is that the design looks nice and there are no errors. The bad news is that the paper quality seems very flimsy and as a result the invites look really cheap (ie according to him they look like they are on colored copy paper). He wants to go to a local vendor and have them re-printed but we needed them ASAP (which is why we didn't order paper samples from the online vendor to begin with). But reprinting them with a rush charge will be a big blow to the budget (not to mention the wastage of paper from the original set) and we really need to send them out this weekend.
Is there anything that can be done to salvage the invitations? I know the Bees are awesome with creative ideas. All I can think of is attaching a cardstock backing to add to the paper heft. Help!!