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Using a kit sounds like a PITA to me. I'm making my own but not using a template, just printing my own design and cutting it to size. Total cost for them is prob about $1.50 each and they are $7.50 to order the exact same ones online... so yea I'd say it was worth it to me to do it myself :)
I used paperandmore.com for all my paper/envelopes and microsoft word to do the text.
Yeah well, I know how I am. I wanted some invites from paperandmore but I couldn't afford. So I am paying a graphic artist to do the design, I will go to Kinko's for them to print and cut it down to the size I got from paperandmore (like CorgiaTales, I'm buying all my stuff from them) and then I am going to mount them myself. It might be a pain but it will about a third what I was going to pay. Printing and cutting, hell no. Doing the design, PITA. But siting and just putting them together, count me in. Sorry yours is frustrating. I know DIY can be that way sometimes.
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I see in many of the bridal magazines that one way to save money is to make your own invitations. So, being the relatively crafty person I am, I saved my 40% off coupons from Michael’s and bought DIY invitation kits. They are really cute! I have complimentary save-the-dates, thank you cards, and programs – all in my wedding colors of clover green and chocolate brown. So what’s the problem?
I was warned that making my own invitation would prove to be a challenge. I tested out a couple invites and spent about half an hour and countless scrap papers trying to get it properly aligned. I haven’t given up on it yet but I am wary. Several of my friends said they did their own invites and either didn’t like how they turned out or gave up and got them printed.
I am wondering if it will still be fairly cheap to take the invites I purchased and go to a local printer. I think I can probably still do my invites and make them look nice but the programs I wouldn’t even know where to begin. At the time I bought the programs I was thinking about how nice they looked instead of how difficult printing them could be. I thought that the invites/programs had templates on a website but I couldn’t find them.