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I'm starting to online shop for our invitations. We're going to need about 75 invitations and I can't tell what my budget for invitations should be. About how much did you bees spend on invites, did you find any ways to cut costs, any suggestions for where to order invites online?
Thanks :)
I'm paying $864 dollars for a set of 100 4-piece letterpressed invitations from Pressroom and Co. It's one color but every piece is letterpressed and return addresses are included. This price also includes shipping to me.
I think it was a really fair price for letterpressed invites. Here's a picture of them:
I ordered 100 invites through Vistaprint. If you sign up for their newsletters, you usually have to wait no longer than a week for them to have an amazing deal of some sort, that you can use towards your invitations.
I got my post card STDs there for only $20, and I got my invites (including all envelopes, RSVP cards, reception cards) for about $110.
It depends on how much you want to spend and what you want. I looked into vistaprint for invites, checked out Michael's and Walmart DIY kits and eventually relented and allowed my sister to design our invites.
I'm cutting costs by ordering a lot on ebay and buying things on massive sale. So, for example, the ribbon for the invites cost me $5 (to make about 50), ribbon slides cost me $20 for 50 and rhinestone accents I spent $3 on with a coupon at Michaels. The expensive parts, though, will easily be the paper, envelopes and professional printer.
Also, when you do invites, don't foget that weight will play a factor in the cost of postage, and having a paper RSVP vs online will cost you a bit on postage as well.
My invites are about $1000 for 150. We designed them 100% through a little paper/stationary shop downtown. I heart them.
You may not want to go by my figures, since I was obsessed with having formal, engraved invitations. I think I spent about $2,400 on my invitation suite.
$223 for 20 invite suites through Wedding Paper Divas. That includes Invites with inner and outer envelopes, Detail Cards, Response Cards with Envelopes and Thank You cards with envelopes.
@jpmorgan: Yes there are. It really depends on how important invites are to you, and how fancy you want them to look.
For one wedding, we spent about $6. for each and ordered 100. For the other wedding we paid $10. each and ordered 60. Postage ranged from $.94 to $1.34 each, plus the RSVP envelopes...
Ours were made by 2 different Etsy sellers.
I'm aiming to spend $200 maximum for 50-60 invites. I'll be using vistaprint and jazzing them up on my own.
We are doing them all by hand, so between the cardstock and envelopes and little things I think we are around 150 for 100 invitation suites. My MOH is great at paper crafting so her and I are tackling that project. Invites were definitely not something I was willing to spend a lot on, you should decide how important they are to you. obviously as some PP's said, they were very important to them so they spent a decent chunk of money on them. It's all up to what you want!
@MsJ2theZ: Yes, if it was up to me, I would have made them by hand, but my future MIL didn't like any of my choices and wanted something "fancier". The choice I ended up going with was a good blend of what she and I wanted.
But you definitely have to figure out how important they are to you because the prices can get high pretty quickly!
@jpmorgan: OK I will add in my invites to the mix. I didn't pay for them, they were $1400 for 125. It's my FMIL's business, and she ordered them through http://cestpapier.com/. They are really nice, but if I were paying myself I'd be going a little more budget-friendly...
ETA: here is a pic:
I made my pocketfolds myself with a matted invite, 3 tiered insert cards, a belly band wrap topped with a quasi-monogram (our names and date). I ordered extra paper so I'll be able to do my programs and a few other touches as well. Between paper, heat gun for embossing, stamp to emboss, embossing powder, glue (glue, and more glue - 4 bottles worth!), it cost me $279 for approximately 95 invites.
I think I'm going to try to keep it at no more than $1 an invitation + shipping. I'm planning to put all the info on one invitation (ceremony and reception are at same place so that's easy) and then I'm thinking about using phone number, website, e-mail address for rsvps instead of a card...maybe
I ordered 75 Wiliam Arthur for Wedding Paper Divas invitations with envelope liners, response cards, and preprinted return addresses. They were about $675.
We spent $130 on 70 invites, envelopes, RSVP, and RSVP envelopes, and they look fantastic!!! I really did not want to spend a ton on invitations, something that somebody is going to just throw away, but I also wante to send out nice and fun inites! I designed them myself and formated my on the computer and had them printed professionally and the look AMAZING!!! I am so happy!! all we need now is stamps!
@Juliepants: Thats what I used, they came out so great! you can order a free sample kit to see the differnet paper options and in that they will send you a 25% off coupon!!!
@Future Mrs K: Where did you print them? Did you go to a local print shop, or did you upload your design and print through an online company?
My brother is designing our invitations, but I'm really confused about where to print them to make sure they look elegant/formal enough...
@Future Mrs K: I just got my sample kit! I had purchased like 6 groupons at $17 each for $70 worth of Vistaprint items so I have $420 to burn on invites and menus and programs and I'm SO excited to get started!
Keep and eye out for groupons offering Vistaprint deals as well!
@ Mrs Bookworm I printed them with Vistaprint! I was really nervous about it, and I looked at all kinds of different options, but they were the most cost effective. I uploaded it to their website, you can preview it before you submit it. When our order came it I was so happy, they did an amazing job, I am so glad we went with them :)
@Future Mrs K: Yay, awesome!
(Duh, I see now that you already said you did Vistaprint. 
) What kind of paper did you choose? I know there are a few options and I am nervous about the quality... I want to make sure the paper is heavy/thick enough! That is awesome that you can order a sample kit - and that they send a coupon.
@KimmySumShuga: Thats awesome! They have so many options for so many differnet types of Invites and other products, we would use them again!
My current plan for around 50 invites is probably going to be around $40 for two sets of home-printable ones from Michael's, then whatever a cartridge of ink or perhaps two will cost. Depending on that, between $80 and...$120?
@Ms Bookworm: The thickness is great, we did Premium 100lb White Matte Stock. Before we got the sample kit we were worried about it too, but the free sample kit put our minds at ease! We had checked out staples, but their 100lb stock was not thick enough for us, and it was a bit more expensive.
I ordered mine from michaels, 100 invites, with inner and outer envelopes. With shipping and everything it was 260. I got merlot coloured outer envelopes and black inner. I got the outer printed with our address.
These are them!!
My Lil Sis designed the invites for free
The Envelope and purple cardstock I bought from cards and pockets $34.84
The invite and Info card were printed on Lux Cotton Heavy Cardstock at Catprint $72.69
Twine to wrap it all up was $14.00
Total $121.53 for 55 Invites
P.S. Forgive the crappy cellphone pictures! They arrived today and I was to excited to wait to charge my real camera.
Speak of the devil! Here's the GROUPON AGAIN!
http://www.groupon.com/deals/vista-print-san-diego?c=image&division=san-diego&s=body&utm_source=newsletter&p=5&date=20120218&utm_medium=email&sid=11104669&utm_content=all-deals_san-diego_channel_widget&utm_campaign=vista-print-san-diego&addxe=SU5DUkVESUJMWUdPUkdFT1VTS0lNTVlAWUFIT08uQ09N&user=5c9209cdc6b0d1385e042982d72fb24a31aebc4af66425513f18f98f75d10572
best of luck!
I spent under $100 for 70 invites.
5x7 letterpressed textured flat cards from Paper Source
4-Bar textured flat cards from Paper Source
Matching envelopes
I did all if the design and printing myself. They are gorgeous.
@Brielle: Haha, same here. I splurged on the invites because I'm a total paper geek and stationery is important to me. Not including design and production (all done for free by us), about $2500. $2k for letterpress, then $500 for calligraphy, folder paper, envelopes, ribbon, glue. Beyond printing, all the little things just kept adding up. One pricey semi-DIY project. :/
I don't have the invites alone calculated - I am DIYing my invites and programs, and they use the same cardstock. Together, for 80 invites and 150 programs, I'm expecting to pay $250.
Oh! My STDs cost $150 and that was mostly the cost of paper. I made the envelopes myself.
I used invitationstyles.com and we got 40 invitations AND rsvp cards with return envelopes and it was $40....thats $1 per invitation AND rsvp card ladies!!!
Ours are coming somewhere in the $150 range for 70. More than I wanted to spend, but I guess $2.20ish per suite isn't too horrid. (Did electronic STDs so those were free, at least!) Used some downloadable templates from Wedding Chicks and customized them pretty heavily myself, then got them printed through Catprint on their cotton stock. Love them because they do rounded corners!
We have the invite card, an info card (we're doing e-RSVPs), and a tag on which to write people's names. We're trying them together with baker's twine and attaching the tag to the twine as a way to avoid using double envelopes but still specifying who is invited and if they get a +1.
I got 150 invites for $36 at Hobby Lobby, plus $15 for vellum, so about $50.
I designed them myself and had them printed at a local company. It came out to about $1/invite, including envelope, two inserts, and invite with b/w printing on nice shimmery cardstock.
I ordered 75 invitations through our local stationary store - they're made by Unveiled by Checkerboard - and I think it came to around $550. We opted not to have a directions card since everyone has GPS nowadays (or knows how to use mapquest), so it was just the invitations, envelopes, and response cards/envelopes. They're 3 layer, and thermography (raised) lettering. It just depends what you want to spend - you can order online or try to DIY, but I liked going into the store and looking through the books - it gave me an idea of what I liked and what I didn't and what they actually looked like in person and felt like in my hands. Originally I didn't think they were that important to me, but as time went on I realized for most people, this was the first piece of our wedding they would see and I wanted it to really reflect the tone we are trying to set. Good luck with yours!
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