Post # 1
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Newbee
Can anyone help me? i am trying to keep my cost down but will still like something nice. I live in Atlanta and in need of a inexpensive company for my invitations. I am willing to put them together. I am also willing to make them myself, but just worried that if i don’t find inexpensive paper they may wind up costing just as much and not look as nice.
Can you recommend …
1 – a place online or in the Atlanta area to buy the invites
2 – a place online or in the Atlanta area to buy the supplies to make them myself
Thanks!
Post # 3
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Sugar bee
I bought all my supplies online and DIY’d everything.
Post # 4
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Busy bee
I bought my invitation kits from Michaels (BRIDES Magazine brand) – the silver design. I’ll be printing them and assembling them myself. We’re trying to keep costs down, so we went the print them yourself route.
Post # 5
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Newbee
@JoJo Bananas: and @Violachap:What is your cost per invite?
Post # 6
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Bumble Beekeeper
This place has some very reasonably priced invitations: http://www.yourinvitationplace.com/Default.aspx?WebName=grannysbridalboutique
I was going to purchase mine there but I have decided to make them, even though they are going to cost more.
I am sorry, but I don’t live in the Atlanta area. I have been catching sales at Joanns and Michaels for my paper, so you might take a walk through those stores to see what you can find.
Post # 7
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Helper bee
How many invites are you sending? Pricing will sometimes vary depending on the size of your order. We had just 50 invites, so no bulk discount there.
Post # 8
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Helper bee
I bought my paper from Paperworks.com. I bought WAAAY too much, and not including shipping, it was $200. This will make 100 invites, plus 120 menus and programs and ANYthing else I can think of that involves papers. The only other things I bought were a paper cutter (so I could do a straight line) and some glue dots. Oh, and I bought some scrapbooking software for about $50, but I can use that for other things.
Post # 9
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Sugar bee
Mine were about $4 each. I was looking for very specific papers and needed to buy from multiple vendors.
Pocketfolds (6″ square) – paperandmore.com
Stardream RSVP envelopes, cardstock invitation backing , 6.5″ Square envelopes – paper-papers.com
Cardstock, 80lb 8.5×14 for belly bands, 80lb 8.5×11 for map/directions card, 130 lb 8.5×11 for everything else – paperpresentation.com
Post # 10
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Bumble bee
I made mine for about $2 each. I bought the pocketfolders from cardsandpockets.com, the cardstock from Office Depot, and printed them at home.
Post # 11
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Buzzing Beekeeper
davids bridal has some good deals on invites. i think printing them yourself can often work out to be nearly as expensive dependin on the printer u have, ink consumption and if u go with invite kits or make them from scratch because then u need to buy envelopes too
Post # 12
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Newbee
@JoJo Bananas: i love your design! are you willing to share the template you used to make the ivites?
Post # 13
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Sugar bee
I got my invites from wedding nestingproject on etsy and they charge $2 for invite & RSVP. They also custom deisgned these for me for no extra charge! They were amazing to work with and did everything I asked! 
Post # 14
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Helper bee
Are you an experienced crafter/DIY-er? If you want something nice, I’d suggest going online and buying them, but assembling and putting embellishments on yourself. Or having them professionally printed and maybe mounting them on special mats yourself? paperandmore.com has a pretty good selection and is accomodating for DIY-ers. Just have a good idea in mind of what you want, whether its the DIY or buy-it-yourself route beforehand.
Post # 15
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Newbee
I made mine myself but I do it for a living. 
The invitations were made on beautiful metallic heavy stock paper but you can’t see from the bad photos, the table cards were printed on black foam board and place on silver easels I made and painted myself. Place cards are also shimmery metallic paper and I used black frames with a white window were I printed the names of each guest.
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Post # 16
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Newbee
@GlambrideNYC: Since you do this for a living…How much do you charge? Also where did you buy your paper?
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