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Invitation Indecision

posted 12 months ago in Paper
  • poll: Pocket or Package Invites
    Pockefolds with step inserts : (9 votes)
    47 %
    Package : (10 votes)
    53 %
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    malisa0607    May 6, 2012   Denver, wedding in Las Vegas

    Please help me.  I still have a lot of time to decide but I think it's making me indecisive.  I'm doing everything early and ahead of schedule so it's giving time to look around and change my mind. 

    When I started this whole wedding thing, I decided that I wanted to do pocket invitations with the step inserts.  I ordered samples from cards and pockets in the various styles and colors.  I then received two wedding invitations and they were both pockets. My future sis in law made her own and the layout is uniquely hers.  I will not be doing that. I will order them premade.  It doesn't bother me that something is hugely popular so that's not my problem

    My problem is that I ordered invitation samples from a ton of places and I'm in love with one of the designs.  It doesn't fit into the pockets so I was thinking about sending the invite with all the inserts in a kraft box. I like the idea of receiving a package containing an invite.

    So if you were my guest, would prefer to receive a pocket invite (chandelier design) or a package (lotus design)?  We're getting married at s Country Club in Las Vegas so I don't know if one fits the setting more than the other.  The pockets would be a tiffany blue and the chandelier deisgn would be red and accented with tiffany blue.

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    Caizn    August 2, 2014   KCMO

    I don't see the other design but I really like the pockets. (and the chandilier design)

     
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    red_pepper_gal    July 7, 2012   Edmonton, Canada

    I love the packages - they're completely adorable, and I've never gotten one before. But postage might be something to consider as well. 

     
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    malisa0607    May 6, 2012   Denver, wedding in Las Vegas

    red_pepper_gal

    The girl said her packages cost just under $2 to mail.

     
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    cbrydon    July 31, 2011   Los Angeles aka LALAland, the city of angels

    I love the pocket designs!

     
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    thewheelsonthebus    June 25, 2011  

    Of these two I would definitely go with the Pockets... I'm just not a fan of the boxed invites. 

    Good luck!

     
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    Kate2012    May 19, 2012   Cleveland, Ohio

    I would do the pockets. I think they make a nicer presentation and are more likely to fit in someones mailbox. I don't know if budget is a huge concern for you but I would guess you would save a bit of cash with the pockets as well. Then again, go with what you love. 

     
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    VictoriaCL    June 4, 2011  

    I think the pockets are adorable!

     
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    Thrakena    April 21, 2012   Louisiana

    I like the pockets, and am thinking about doing them as well, but the package invites are so elegant. I would love to receive a boxed invite, if only because it's different.

     
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    SoonToBeeMrsD    March 24, 2012   Iowa

    I really like the pocket invitiations, and I think in your colors they will be amazing! I could not even imagine the cost of postage on the package invites! Ay curumba! :)

     
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    malisa0607    May 6, 2012   Denver, wedding in Las Vegas

    i priced out both options and they come in pretty close. 

    with the pockets, i would do the shimmer pockets so those are .80 each from cards and pockets.  i would also have to pay the etsy seller for the invite design template.  (i don't know my way around photoshop, indesign, or illustrator to design it myself.)  i would then have to pay for the invites to be printed and cut.  i could do them myself but i have nightmares of crooked and smeared invites.

    the packages are pretty inexpensive from papermart.  i found them in tiffany blue for just a little more.  the invite design is from 123print so their printing is quite inexpensive.  the postage i see varies from just under $1 to $2 for each depending on insert and additonal stuff i might want to include.

    and since i've cut my wedding from 500-900 guests to 200 guests, i can splurge a little more for invites.

     

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