Making Own Wedding invitations

[Skylarr29]

I am planning on making my own. Here is the mock up monogram I made myslef in publisher and it was super easy. That and some card stock and there yah go!

 

[PrincessJen09]

I am planning on making my own. Here is the mock up monogram I made myslef in publisher and it was super easy. That and some card stock and there yah go!

That is so beautiful! I am sure it will look great! How did you make that? What is publisher? LOL! I am clueless.

 

[Skylarr29]

That is so beautiful! I am sure it will look great! How did you make that? What is publisher? LOL! I am clueless.

Thank you!

Publisher is Microsoft Publisher that comes with Microsoft office. It's similar to using a word document except that you use text boexes so I just overlayed everything (its 3 different 'text boxes' the R, the M, and the date) then you group them together to make one image.

I can make one for you if you have Publisher on your computer, if not then it won't open

 

[Tink143]

OK...y'all just put me to shame! I thought the Announcement/At Home Reception card I made was cool, wow!

I did find a really good website that has cardstock in all different sizes, plus envelopes. I was going to buy Red Cards for the Announcement, Blue Envelopes and Vice Versa for the Thank you cards. I used my trusty paper corner rounder to make it look more professional. I plan on starting my Planning Report next week (When school's out! WooHoo!), and I'll put a picture of it on there. The paper website has this Stardream Line that has a sheen to it, so it's not just plain old boring paper.

www.papersource.com

in case anyone is interested in looking around.

 

[Janet2k]

I cannot find any invitations that I absolutely love. I was thinking about maknig my own. Has anyone done this before?

PrincessJen09, for my FTW event, I created my invitations via the Shutterfly.com website. I’d been creating photo-greeting cards with them for many a moon.

Since I’m lazy (!!), I’ll post below what I put in my trip report. I hope it helps.

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I pulled out my old wedding album and asked my son to scan in a picture for me. Being the high-tech geek that he is (the acorn, as they say, does not fall far from this tree), he obliged. Once my wedding photo (click here to view it) had been scanned in and added to my computer's hard-drive, it took only moments to upload it to my account on Shutterfly.

On the Shutterfly website, I began having some fun. I chose a simple border to place around my photo and used that for the cover of the card. I then began composing a greeting for the card's interior. It didn't take long before I had come up with the following:

Remember when we were a
couple of fresh-faced kids?
Well, come and see what we
look like after 20 years of marriage.

You are cordially invited to our
vow renewal ceremony at
Walt Disney World. We hope you'll
join us as we begin our next 20 years.

Love,
Janet & Rick
(an official Fairy Tale couple)
​

Once my simple greeting was out of the way, it was time to add a personal note to my card. I composed the following one:

Rick and I will be celebrating twenty years of
marriage with a vow renewal ceremony
inside Disney's Wedding Pavilion in Florida. Our
ceremony will be held at 2 PM on October 27th.
We are hoping you can join us as we take a stroll
down memory lane. We promise lots of laughter
and even a few thrills that week.

We have booked hotel rooms in everyone's name
at the BoardWalk Villas. These hotel rooms are free
via our Disney Vacation Club membership, and we
would love it if you would stay in one of them. The
BoardWalk Villas is such a fun resort in such a
great location.

As to our celebration dinner, we're planning
something unique. We can't promise yet that we'll
be able to do it, but Disney is working on it for us.
Keep your fingers crossed.

Please let us know if you can attend our vow
renewal ceremony this Fall. It should be a wild time!

Janet & Rick

With my greeting card completed, I selected its recipients (my family members) and placed my order. My job was done.

It's really quite amazing when you consider that I did everything while sitting at the computer in my bedroom. I didn't have to travel to a greeting card store in order to select and purchase a card. I didn't have to travel to a photo store in order to get a copy of a photograph. I didn't have to travel to the US Post Office in order to purchase a stamp and mail my card. I didn't have to travel any further than where my fingers could take me on my computer's keyboard. Ain't technology grand? What a great time to be alive.

I don't have a copy of my card that I can share. However, I do have a few screen captures that I took while creating it. For those of you who would like to see what my completed card looked like, the following links should give you a pretty good idea:

Invitation Cover
Invitation Inside
Invitation Greeting
Invitation Personal Message

With my card complete, all I had to do was sit back and wait to see who from my family would officially accept the invitation to attend Rick and my vow renewal.
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[TheLastPrincess]

Do you have Adobe Photoshop?? That is what I used to work on my castle. I thought I was going to have to "fade" my castle too but you might be surprised - the vellum fades it for you quite nicely!

 

[mermaidbride1108]

I made my own invitations, and I got SOOOO many compliments on them. No one even could tell I made them myself.

I bought plain ivory card stock invitations at Target that had a gold deckle edge. Then I went to a craft store and saw they offered vellum invitations with a gold ribbons to attach. I cut the vellum so it was slightly smaller than the card stock invitations from Target. On the Target invitations, I printed an outline of Cinderella's castle that I had traced myself and scanned on the computer. Then I printed the actual wording on the vellum. I attached it to the card stock, and voila! Gorgeous invitations that normally would have cost hundreds of dollars, for a FRACTION of that cost! They really were beautiful - the castle in the background, and the words on top. Never seen anything like it anywhere.

This was my EXACT idea for my invites - only I'm going to tie on a seashell bead in the ribbon for my Little Mermaid/Under the Sea theme