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 After many endless days and nights of research, I found that you can easily spend between $300 - $800 on wedding invitations, depending on the number of invitations, kind of paper, style, color and various options.
Considering that I was only inviting 30 guests, I was shocked at the prices! Wtih my beloved groom whining about rising wedding costs, I decided to create my own wedding invitations. Aside from significant costs savings, making my own invitations appealed to me on other levels also. I would be able to make exactly what I wanted for a price which I controlled. PERFECT!!!
After diving into the project, I discovered that I'm not alone, and that there's a big "do-it-yourself" craze sweeping the wedding landscape. You can find "do-it-yourself" invitations at most office stores like Office Depot, Office Max and even Target. At $30 for 50 sets of invitations, RSVP cards and corresponding envelopes, which I bought at Michael's art store, I was able to have a little fun and get creative and personalize my invitations while saving a ton of money.
If you are even a little computer savvy or can find someone who is, you can design your own invitations. I tried using Microsoft Word, but after a while got frustrated by its limitations and ended up creating them in Photoshop.
You can print your own invitations too. Most wedding invitation kits have step-by-step instructions on how to print out your invites. Just be forewarned that you will encounter many errors with your trials. So be sure to test, test, test on scrap paper BEFORE you actually print on your actual invitations. Trust me on this. Making lots of test prints on regular paper will save you a bunch of money so you're not wasting expensive paper as you're correcting small problems.
We have both a cheap inkjet and an ancient laser printer at home and after some testing I found that laser printing is alot cleaner and has less chance of smearing than ink jet, especially if you're printing on vellum.
Once I was able to assemble the main components of the invitation, I decided to jazz it up by adding different embellishments, like ribbon and dried pressed flowers, and specialty patterned paper. Once my invitation was completely assembled, the final result looked pretty good and the style was perfect for my hawaiian theme.
I was so proud and all the time I put into this was, in my opinion, well worth it. And your guests can tell that you've taken the time to create each and every invitation. So if you're the kind of bride that doesn't mind a little do-it-yourself, you'll probably find the same sort of satisfaction from this project as I felt. Oh, and did I mention you can save hundreds of dollars this way?
To help you with your do-it-yourself wedding invitations, your best bet is a dedicated paper store like the Paper Source or specialty arts and crafts retailer like Michales. Otherwise, stores like Office Depot , Office Max and Target also carry some wedding invitation kits.
 Out of all the stores I visited, Paper Source was my favorite. They have an endless variety of paper, kits, embellishments and other art supplies. You can create almost anything from that store. I found the staff at the Chestnut street location in San Francisco, to be very helpful and knowledgeable. I liked the fact that they had many do-it-yourself wedding kits to choose from and already-made samples on display. This gave me great ideas that helped me in assembling my wedding invites. If you're going to visit any of these sites, this is the one I recommend!
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