Moonpie said:I made my own! We had about 40 guests, so I made only about 30-35 invitations. I bought a rubber block from the craft store, and used a carving knife to carve images of different kinds of leaves. I went to an online stamp company to get the wording made. I stamped them all on thick water color paper, and used little tiny brads, and paper to make the little flowers on the cards. Then I included a scanned copy of a collage that I made (not shown) that was our map of how to get to the church. We also included written directions, and some people also got hand made invitations to our "unrehearsal" dinner. In the envelope, everything was wrapped in a pretty, and lacey rice paper, and tied with a ribbon.
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My advice is to first find an envelope size that you like, and make sure that everything will fit into it. Otherwise you might end up having to make your own envelopes.
As you can see, I also carved this wooden sign for the reception entrance to kind of match the invitations.
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We did the opposite! I worked for a bank so their printer did our invitations for free but they had a minimum run of 25 and we only needed 6, so I had a lot left over. But I made the 75 wedding announcements! It was a lot of work and half way through I wished I hadn't done it, but fortunately for me DH helped. I used burgundy card stock, printed our announcement in burgundy ink in a pretty font on ivory paper (our colors were burgundy and ivory). I used silver eyelets to make holes at the top and strung an ivory ribbon through that with our last name initial in silver dangling from the ribbon. I also made invitations to our day-after-wedding brunch, but I only had to make 8 of those (we had more people at the brunch than the actual wedding!).
I have seen invitation kits at Target and Michael's so you might want to look at those, they look very elegant.
I made my own invites. Try Cards and Pockets. I am not sure of the website but you can order as many as you want I believe.
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