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I spent $308 total for 50, so $6.16 each. IMO, way too much, but they were the only ones I loved. I got mine from JeanM.
I spent $275 for 110 invites, making everything from scratch including the pocketfolds. It came out to be $2.50 per person.
ok just as a side note, i absolutely had to have these invitations. they are super pricy IMO but i loved them soooo much. plus my gf's got me a GC for the stationer who happens to have her studio a few blocks from my house! www.gryphonstationers.com i think all in all i'll spend about $17 per invite for these invites and that's including postage and the save the date cards which is a DIY. in fact i just bought these cute rubberstamps of golden gate bridge and the SF skyline from the internet 5 min ago for the save the date cards : )
We are having letterpress invitations custom designed from Ephemera Press. And Tara is just about the most affordable letterpress stationer I have found. Not to mention, shes uber nice and has great designs.
So all in all including design fee, we spent $12.90 per invite. Custom design, 2 colored, letterpress, 1 reply card, 1 enclosure with coordinating envelopes.
I spent $406 on 180 invites, or about $2.25 per invite. We scanned vintage postcard to make the invite and I also made a matching RSVP card and double sided accommodation/direction card. That also includes a pochette with seal and a vellum envelope.
If you can design or have a friend that can, it's a great way to save a ton of money! Plus, we are so happy with our super personalized invites.
lilneko - yay! I am using Ephemera, too! Here's our breakdown:
custom design
2 color letterpress
inner and outer envelope
reply postcard
lined envelopes
120 for ~$1160, so $9.66 each. I locked in the 2007 prices in December, though. I think she has gone up slightly for '08. I second lilneko, though. Tara's customer service is incredible.
I'm paying just under $3 each for pocket folds with 3 inserts - I'm amking about$120 of them.
I did mine at home, hence the low cost.
i am also using tara at ephemera. similar pricing to the above for letterpress. she's awesome - i highly recommend her!
55 cents per invite for 200 Pocket Folds with 4 inserts and an RSVP postcard.
Here is my breakdown:
Graphic from istock photo $13.00
1 ream of 80 lb ivory linen paper from local paper store 500 sheets per ream: $15.00
200 Pocket folders from ebay and Megan here on wedding bee in the classified section: $25.00
250 transparent green 6.50 x 6.50 envelopes from ebay: $8.00
Color Printing at Kinko's (there are 3 colors all together) and cutting with myself at home with my papercutter $49.00
YAY!
Letterpress wasn't just that important to me. Not when I considered all the savings just having regular color flat invites. Being that I'm using linen paper at 80 lb weight, it's not flimsy and there is texture. It looks soooo good if I do say so myself. I would be happy to share a pic if anyone wants to see. :)
yeah after asking all brides what they would do not do again they said they regretted paying so much for invites - it came down to understanding that people throw the invites away even though as a paper lover myself I would keep pretty paper forever if i could. i guess it comes down to if it is worth the splurge for you then do letterpress - else take that money and use it on your honeymoon or something else. I just had to realize that even if I LOVED the paper/designs/etc - there are guests of mine that will liekly chuck them and at a premium price it hurts to know those dollars are going in the trash. ehh i guess i can just collect nice paper and invites to secretly ooh and ahh without expecting anyone to understand my crazy paper addiction.
I'm going to go with whiteaisle.com. It'll be about $6.50 per invitation, but that includes the luxe pocket, reply postcard, and two inserts.
I might go with matching letter press thank you cards, which are only $2 each. It'll be the old bait-and-switch, because it will be what guests will see after the wedding and will likely remember :p
I designed my invite myself and had it letterpressed by Mercurio Brothers. 110 2-color invites and 110 1-color response cards cost me $455.
I bought pocketfolds, invitation mats, and outer envelopes at cardsandpockets.com for $201.
I bought envelopes for the response cards and paper for the accommodations insert at Paper Presentation. Can't remember how much it was, about $30-$35.
I printed the envelopes on my inkjet printer, the return addresses and the guests' addresses on the outer envelope, my address on the response envelope. Ink cartridge was about $20.
Oh, and I also bought a lot of adhesive for assembling the invites. I have no idea how much I spent on this--maybe $50-$60
Added together, it comes to about $7 per invite for 110 invites (which was more than I needed by about 20 :-). It's more than I wanted to spend, but I got letterpress and pocketfolds and a personalized invite using my dad's Chinese calligraphy, so it was totally worth it to me.
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I also DIY the fan in the picture. It's our wedding program on 110lb cardstock. The most labor intensive part of that has been hand cutting each individual blade. Then I set the 5 blades with an eyelet and run a ribbon through. Viola! Instant fan for a hot July day, and informative and useful! I was able to make 4 blades per each 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. Ran it through my printer. The cost on these were about 10 cents for each fan (I made 100)
The card RSVP in the front of the invitation is a 2 sided postcard that I designed with my return address put on the back so no envelope needed for that and it only cost 21 cents to mail back to me.
Being that I kept the weight down on the paper for my invitations and my inserts (at 80 lb rather than 110 lb. and a total of 5 inserts including the RSVP) The entire invitation only cost me 58 cents to mail! YAY!
On the left over scrap from the printing, I've made little business card size tags for all of our favors, which I DIY also. (they are hershey kiss chocolate roses done with floral wire, floral tape, cellophane and a corsage leaf and ribbon. And I also made our menu cards for the reception to be placed at each placesetting.
http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a45/SherridanKW/DIY%20Wedding%20Invites/?albumview=slideshow
David's Bridal has some invitations for $98 for 100. They're nice invitations; it's probably where I'll get mine from.
our entire stationery set for 1 person (STD, invite + RSVP postcard + 2 enclosures, thank you) is $12 (including custom stamps). it's letterpressed.
ours is $12.50 each:
3 color invite
2 color RSVP card
2 color lined invite envelope
1 color lined RSVP card
1 color menu card
1 color program
2 color thank you card
1 color lined thank you envelope
Everything is DIY letterpressed. I am halfway done. It's been a lot of fun doing my own letterpress.
Im using Epehemera Press too. I love Tara! Her prices were by far the best for letterpress. I booked her in December before her prices went up for 2008.
Here is what we are getting
140 invites, RSVP cards, direction cards, envelopes and thank you cards
-one color ink
total 1100$
Without TY cards it would have been $860 for all invites but it was cheaper for me to add them on now with the invite package. It will save me 200$ in the end.
Invites came out to be $6.42 each which is a great price for letterpress.
We are spending about $8.00 per head for the entire stationery set. One of the first things I learned was that the price per invite is only part of what you pay! Then you need all the other stuff (for us: RSVP card and envelope, accomodation card, two-sided direction/map card, STD and envelope, TY and envelope). So our invitations were actually about $3.50 per, its the other stuff that gets you!
I know that very few folks will keep them. That actually influenced my decision to buy rather than DIY. No way am I spending my time as well as my money for someone to toss in the trash!! But we will not only keep ours in our album, but have it custom matted and framed, so we want something nice.
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