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Call up a local print shop in your area and see if they can help you.
I would suggest a mom and pop shop as opposed to Staples or Office Max. I have my STDs printed at a Staples and everytime I called I got a different person who was working that shift and had to keep re-inventing the wheel.
I ordered my invites through a local print shop where everyday when I called I dealt with the same woman. It was a lot easier.
I printed my save the dates at kinkos and was very very pleased with the process. I'd created a file in Illustrator they manipulated it to print two to a page on cardstock. I got 125 color copies, cardstock, cut for $100. It was well worth the money after the headache they gave me during the design process. i don't know where you live but I'm sure there are plenty of local printers you could go to if you are not interested in going to such a commercialized place. Also, I don't know if you have any friends that are graphic designers. But my friend is one and she works with a lot of printing vendors. She had one of them print her invites and they turned out awesome. Good luck
Depending on how indepth your invites are, it might be more cost effective to just buy a new printer rather than going through a print shop. I printed invites right off of a regular inkjet printer.
And as a graphic artist, I loathe Kinkos! Go to a mom and pop store before going there. Please. 
Cool, I definitely know my way around design software so I'll be doing that part myself. We have a small guest list so investing in a printer is probably not more cost effective for us.
So do you just print it out on normal size paper and then cut it down to size? Cause the paper I was going to buy is already the dimensions we wanted. I guess I'll call around and ask if they can print that size.
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I printed my invites at Fedex/Kinkos. I had such a great experience (and it was such a great deal), that I will probably print my placecards, menus and programs there also! My cardstock was thin enough that they could still run it through the machine.
Definitely check them out.
I just finished designing my own invitation and am now searching for places to print and cut. Here's my experience in Chicago.
If you need color prints/copies, it costs about $0.49 per page from Kinko's or Office Max....even if you provide your own paper. If you need to cut the paper into smaller sizes, it's about $1.49 a cut for up to 250 sheets of paper. So for instance I need cut the 8.5" x 11" paper into two 4.25" x 6" pieces, which requires 5 cuts. The price is then $7.45 for up to 250 sheets (before taxes).
I will be looking for quotes from mom and pop places next.
Hope this helps.
As a graphic designer, I agree with Ms. Sushi--please check out investing in a new home printer or going to a mom-and-pop before going to Kinkos (even Staples, Office Max, etc.). I designed our invites and am printing them in all black ink on my HP Photosmart C3180 All-in-One that I got at the Apple store (but you can probably find at Target).
Do you have paper picked out? Nice paper goes a long way in the overall quailty of your invites, too. I got our paper from French Paper. There are tons of color, style, and weight choices as well as coordinating envelopes, and they are relatively inexpensive. We're doing tri-layered invites, which required I ordered four sets (wanted extra paper to print programs) of 100 sheets of paper and two sets of 50 envelopes, and with shipping, it was about $175.
This may be a dumb question, but I'm just curious - graphic designers out there, why do you dislike Kinko's (and similar operations)?
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OK, sorry if this question is beyond dumb but my experience inviting people to stuff is pretty much limited to posting an event on facebook. Now I want to DIY my wedding invites. I've got no problem creating my design etc. but I'm basically clueless about how/where to print everything. Our printer is garbage and we don't have any of these fancy new-fangled devices bees use to create their beautiful invites. So when I buy my paper, do I just bring it to Kinkos or something?