When you got married did you go all out on your wedding or was yours done on a budget? Did you buy expensive, fancy, engraved wedding invitations? They can get quite pricey. You could have made your own and here is one way to do that:
1. Decide on how formal your wedding will be. This has an effect on the design and wording of your invitations.
2. Look for do it yourself wedding invitation ideas by searching the web. You can find sites that offer free templates with or without designs and word samples. You can download templates to use as is or you can adapt them to suit your needs. Some sites will only allow you to download free templates if you purchase your wedding stationary from them.
3. Decide on your design or image and the wording that you will use.
4. Pick a font that goes best with the theme and style of your invitations.
5. Buy your stationery, including cards for any enclosures, such as RSVPs, Thank You cards and programs. You can use stationery blanks that are available in a wide variety of sizes and colors. Be sure to buy a few extra in case of a printing mishap.
6. Make sure you have plenty of extra ink cartridges so that you don’t run out in the middle of printing your invitations.
7. Set aside the time to create your invitations and then print them. It shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours to complete them.
8. Before printing all of the invitations, print one copy of each piece on plain paper cut to the sizes of your stationery. Doing this you can make sure that everything is lined up correctly and check for typing errors.
9. Make sure your printer can adjust to the different sizes of your stationary.
10. Get family and friends who have great handwriting to help you address your invitations.
