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The quote I got from an etsy seller was about $600. But, like you, I was hoping to stay under $500. It's tough with such a large guest list, though!!
It depends on how many invitations you want to get for that price! It also depends on what kind of feeling you want your invitations to have... which depends on the kind of wedding ceremony/reception you are having :)
Tell us more about the kind of wedding you want we'll be able to help more.
How many invites do you need? We haven't started looking for invites yet because we are terrified about how much it's going to cost. We are looking to invite about 250 or so people, so we are in need of about 200 invites. I'm definitely interested to see how much other people have spent and what I should expect because we definitely need to start looking!
I got mine off etsy and paid around $220ish for 50 invitations and rsvp cards. I then paid another $48 in shipping to get them from the US to Australia. Its hard to find cheap ones, and when you have lots of guests it all adds up!
I designed and printed mine at home, so the total cost was about 60 bucks. (60 invites)
Can you DIY it a bit to save some money?
We need 125 total. We went to Michael's craft store this weekend but didn't love anything/the ones we did like, once we added it all up were going to cost us a lot of time and money. I fell in love with one this weekend that was very simple but so cool! It had 2 ribbons on it and was 1 piece of card stock mounted on another. If we ordered through that person we were still going to spend about $700 and that was with us assembing the ribbon and mounting the invitations. Not including stamps too. Eeek.
We went through Invitations by Ajalon, a letterpress studio. They are having a special until the end of April where you can get 100 invitations + RSVP postcards for $439 - LETTERPRESS. It's a really great deal! Anything over 100 is $35 per 25 invites + RSVPs. I highly recommend them.
We used www.theamericanwedding.com and were very impressed with the quality. They have some very affordable options. $500 is totally doable!
Look at Stationery Boutique on Etsy. I've been chatting with her about our invitations and she's given us a great price for printing ours (I designed them myself), about $3 each. If we buy our envelopes through her it goes up to $3.90, but still reasonable I think!
I don't mean to spam you in any way, but I had this same problem so I decided to make my own and then start selling them on etsy. I can print my customers 200 cards with envelopes for $150. If my clients are looking to go for something even more budget friendly, I send them to postcards.com =)
Here's my link, too, just to spark your DIY imagination!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/41876816/custom-illustrated-wedding-invitation
I have read mixed reviews about these people but they seem cheap and have a lot of variety which is why I'm considering using them.
Here's the link...
http://www.vponsale.com/invitations/
Good luck!!
I did about 100 invites for about $150 or so, plus $100 for stamps.
That included:
It really turned out to be pretty cheap doing it this way.
The approximate cost ranges from 3.50 USD to 7 USD. Custom invitations are somewhat pricier because of the designer fee, ranging 7.50 to 13 USD (unless you want the really superpricey ones).
Also flat printing is the cheapest, whereas letterpress is the most expensive. Embellishments (rhinestones, ribbons, lace, etc) make your invitations more expensive. Finally, there also is a difference in price depending on how they are folded, read more here:
http://lassodmoon.blogspot.com/2009/05/outs-of-invitations.html
92 addresses....
100 Invites
120 Outer Envelopes (w/ return address)
100 Inner Envelopes
100 RSVP cards
100 RSVP Envelopes (w/ address
100 Reception Cards
ONLY $204 -Including Shipping. BOOYA! (15%off coupon- found online)
Invitations by Dawn
I just picked ours up at Michael's this weekend and I spent $136 on 160 invites and response cards and that includes the envelopes! I think I got a great deal and I love my invites! Just need to get them printed and we are adding our own ribbon to them, but that wont cost too much!
@krissyb Good luck finding your invites, and IMO your budget isn't too low!
I bought mine from Michaels. We started putting them together today. With two 40% coupons we got 60 invites for about 50$. They are coming out really nice - i think i am surprised! Check them out, that is if you are willing to spend a couple days working on them, but then it is worth it, i would rather spend my 300$ on something else!
50 invitations including, envelope, main invitation, rsvp cards and envelopes, maps. all for $50. i bought a ready to print set and bought ink for the printer and perfect.
I think if you DIY your invites, they will be less money. However, you have to put legwork into it, like printing it. I am using invites from New Leaf Paper sold at Office Depot.
I think we are using CostCo for the invitations! The samples should arrive soon, I'm interested to see the quality. http://pal.einvite.com/dept/Wedding/WeddingInvitations/?Cobrand=PAL&Site=PAL&vk=1777211146
I found a wonderful lady who is trying to tap into the bridal invitation making business and she is offering to design our invites for FREE!! The only thing we will be paying for is the paper......for a total of 150 invites with all inserts it's costing us around $170 for all the paper and pocketfolds which we are purchasing from paperandmore.com. If any of you would like to have me send her contact info I would be happy to do so. She is so easy to work with and is great at responding quickly to emails. She will work closely with you and put your dream invitation into a design!!
Be very aware of what you "need" if you go the DIY route. Not trying to discourage you, just sharing that you need to decide up front if it's more important to stay within your budget (as in little to no wiggle room) or stay true to your wedding vision. Should you have to choose between the two, you need to know which you're willing to sacrifice. FI & I chose to DIY, initially because we wanted to save money, but eventually because we had a unique vision & no one made what we wanted (8.5" x 3.5" invite that pulled out to 11" x 17" that resembled the Disneyland map). When push came to shove, we stuck to our vision rather than our "budget" & pulled money from another source.
That said, our invites (11" x 17", full color, double-sided, & folded + gold shimmer envelopes + first class U.S. stamps) totalled $267 for 35 (61 guests, including kids). RSVPs are online.
I'm going the diy route and got 100 invites for about 30 bucks, in a going out of business sale. but a friend of mine is using 123 printing, I saw her samples and some seemed to be really nice "linen" type paper.
we probably spent close to $800 (including stamps). Way more than I had intended but I fell in love with the invites and nothing else would do!!
I did semi-DIY invites, total cost: $320 for 120 invites (pocketfold, invitation, direction card, rsvp, rsvp envelope, outer envelope)
I didn't end up going with them, but a store in my city quoted me several prices within your budget for the same number of invitations from http://www.rexcraft.com/. I know a lot of stationary stores carry that brand and they really do look nice.
we got a GREAT deal from an etsy seller.
100 - 3layered invites
100 - 2 layer rsvp card
125 - directions/map card
125 - outer env with printed addresses
100 - rsvp env with printed addresses
electronic pdf's of everything.
for $212.00
etsy seller: sondrasink
they actually just came in saturday, so ill def post up pics when i get home today!
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I am having such a hard time finding invitations and am getting so frusterated. We were hoping to spend about $500 or under for invites (invitation, response, reception and envelopes) and are hitting a lot of road blocks. What is everyone else spending and is my budget too low?