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Creating Your Own Wedding Invitation
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Perhaps you took one look at the cost of traditional wedding invitations and nearly fainted dead away, or perhaps you simply like the idea of creating your own wedding invitations by hand. Regardless of your reasons, you do not have to be a professional printer or even an artist to create your own wedding invitations, though you do have to have an open mind and a little imagination. Five Tips For Creating Your Own Invitations 1. Know what you like! Just because you’ve decided to make the invitations yourself does not mean that you can’t browse the catalogues and websites for design ideas. Make a scrapbook of all of your favorite ideas and scribble in ideas or designs of your own. And whatever you do, don’t feel as if you are tied to the traditional wedding invitation style. Invitations today can take any number of forms, including digital invitations, invitations that use the couple’s photo, to hand-designed works of art that have been hand painted or stenciled. The choices are limitless. 2. Handmade does not necessarily mean made by you. You can hire someone to create your invitations for you. From hiring someone who is skilled at calligraphy to hand write all the invitations, to hiring an artist to design an invitation design that you can then have copied, keep your mind open to the idea of hiring someone to create your invitations for you. 3. Haunt the Craft Stores. Craft stores have a great selection of supplies if you are looking to create your own invitations. In fact, many craft stores have lists of local artists and artisans who may be able to help you in creating the perfect invitation, or at least in coming up with a wedding invitation idea that will not be like everyone else’s. 4. Use blank greeting cards. If you can find a card that you especially like, see about ordering in bulk from the supplier. You can then print (or hire someone to print) the invitation information on the insides of the cards. This can be a very classy way of sending out wedding invitations without having to resort to the prices that printers always seem to ask. 5. K.I.S.S. If you are working with a limited budget, your best idea is to “Keep It Simple Silly.” Don’t feel as if you have to go ornate. Cotton stock cards onto which you have attached a copy of your engagement photo (with the wedding information printed on the inside) can work like a charm, as can invitations you have selected from greeting card software, as long as you make sure to use high quality card stock to print them on. Remember, at the end of the day, it is the thought that counts. While wedding invitations can play an important part in your wedding, your guests are more concerned with you than with the quality or expense of your invitations. Author This article was written by Sarah Rigos, founder of online cash registry Starlight Registry - www.starlightregistry.com |
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