In the spirit of trying to pay for things now so it is not such a huge cost later, I have been on the hunt for my invitations. There are two ways you can do invitations:
1. You can order them from a place like David's Bridal or Michael's and pay for them to print them for you (I haven't found this option for cheaper than $350.00 for the 150 invitations I need) or...
2. You can buy a DIY kit and print them at home or somewhere else. Obviously since DIY is my middle name I decided to choose this more cost effective method.
I searched at David's Bridal, Michael's and other places and the general consensus was that a DIY pack of 40 invitations would cost around 40 bucks and I would need at least three of them so that would be around $150 with taxes in. I decided to hold off and keep looking. A friend of mine told me she saw invitations at home sense so I decided to go and check it out. I found three packages of 50 invitations, envelopes, response cards, and thank you cards for 9.99 each and they were in my colors. So for $34 I bought all of the stationary and envelopes for my wedding other than programs and I am delighted by this!
So brides go to home sense if you are looking to save some money on something that most people are just gonna throw out anyways!
I've decdied to do an online wedding page with an E-vite for everyone under 45 years of age. Anyone older (or with a technology-based exceptionality) gets a paper invite. Cuts costs way back on printing and postage.
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We are doing something sort of similar, we are sending invitations to everyone with response cards (since we got such a great deal) but we are not putting stamps on the response card because we will be encouraging younger people to RSVP via our website, however, if the older people feel more comfortable they can mail back the response card and we will enter their info onto our website ourselves. The websites are far more organized!
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