DIY Wedding Invitations Made Easy

By guest author Aisling Mackey

DIY wedding invitations are a great place to start if you're looking to save money on your wedding. Wedding stationery is often the first place a couple will consider when trying to pull back the budget and save some £££s.

Huge savings can be made by making your own Day and Evening Invitations, Save the Dates, RSVPs, Order of Service Booklets and Thank Yous. But the wide range of materials available together with lack of "crafty" experience can put a lot of couples off.

Many don’t know where to start in order to come up with an invitation design and finish that looks "handmade not homemade".

Kits for DIY wedding invitations

This is where a good DIY invitations kit can do wonders. By providing you with the materials you need to make the invitation, instructions, and in some cases, an MS Word Template already formatted for printing, DIY Kits are a great starting place for making professional looking DIY invitations. The pain of figuring out a good design, formatting the printing to get it just right, is taken away. In the process, savings of up to 60-70% can be made on the price of the invite - costs which are usually attributed to the labour used in making the invitation.

Designs and the quality of the kits offered can vary. WeddingDIY.co.uk offers up to 100 different designs, and vary in style from classic wraparound and gatefold styles, pocketfolds and flat-backed to more unusual scrolls and designs using handmade, natural papers.

Making it unique

Some kits for DIY wedding invitations come with the option to customise them – whether it be the colour of a ribbon to match your bridesmaids’ dresses, the type of card and paper used, or the type and colour of flowers used to embellish the design. In this way you can come up with a unique invitation, and even add accessories of your own such as wax seals, bows, miniature flowers, pressed flowers, stamp images, embossed peel off stickers – the list is endless.

Free fonts are also available from sites such as the excellent www.dafont.com or www.free-fonts.com. If you want something that MS Word hasn’t got, to give your invites that extra special look, try downloading a new font from the ‘000s on these sites. You can also print in matt gold and silver with the right settings, or try brown, navy or burgundy fonts to match your colour scheme.

Involve the wedding party

When making up the DIY wedding invitations or other stationery, it’s a great idea to get the wedding party involved. Invite over your bridesmaids or groomsmen, open a couple of bottles of wine, and set up a “conveyor belt” of invite makers. One person does the printing, one person writes the names, one person assembles the invite, and the last one puts it into the envelope and addresses it. In this way you can get all your invites done in a night and have great fun in the process.

Making your own invitations doesn’t have to be difficult. Start with an invitation kit, customise it, add your own extra features if you like, and send out your invitations secure in the knowledge you are sending a truly unique design, and have saved hundreds of pounds in the process.

About the author:

Aisling Mackey is the owner of WeddingDIY.co.uk, a website specialising in over 100 customisable wedding stationery DIY kits. She also runs a sister site in Ireland, and has a craft supplies site and popular blog – Chewing Paper. Aisling believes that DIY Stationery can be easily made by anyone, and by using pre-designed, customisable kits, you are guaranteed a professional looking end result and huge savings into the bargain. “Handmade, not homemade” is the aim.

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