Wedding Invites

 I finally got my butt into gear and sent out my wedding invites.

I managed to create them fairly well on the cheap - with postage costing more than the invites cost to make.

I went online to http://www.downloadandprint.com/ and downloaded a free template. I then tweaked the settings to make it into what I wanted and needed. I didn't want to have to write names on my invites (because lets face it - my hand writing is atrocious!) so I manually put the names into each invite and saved it as a PDF to ensure when I went to a different computer to print it it would look exactly as I had planned.

I ended up creating too pages, one with the standard invite - and another which had a few more details enclosed with it. I got these printed at my local printing shop (only 2cents more than office works was charging for the same thing - and no travel costs because it's within walking distance). They charged .90c per page and I had 26 pages to be printed (as I'd put two invites per A4 page) which ended up costing me a mere $23.40. I already had a pile of nice coloured cardboard which I used as a back piece to the invites.

  I then proceeded to purchase a paper trimmer, some metal pins to hold the lot together as well as wedding themed stamps ($36) and plain envelopes ($5).

The process of putting them all together was simple - albeit a little time consuming. For all those times people have complained about their invites, I now understand. I would consider my invites extremely simple. They could only have been simpler if I just stuck the printed paper into the envelope. My construction was - cut the paper into desired size, cut cardboard into desired size, pin pages together and write names and addresses on the envelope. Simple! But still time consuming. Particularly with a $8 paper trimmer that is nowhere near as sharp as it should be!

But I persevered and I am quite happy with the end result. My wedding theme is "fun". I just want it to be a beautiful big party with friends and family. So


bright colours - even if people may not realise all the invites are different colours - I know they went out to people with bright beautiful colours on them :)

Update

Ok, I've been absent for over a month here. Things have been hectic. Firstly I got to spend three weeks quality time with my fiancé over Christmas - which was awesome to say the least. He has since headed back up to Townsville which leaves the wedding planning back in my sights.

I must admit with my fiancé being home I did stop doing my daily exercise and cleaning routine, then after he left it was stocktaking time at work. I have come to realise with stocktaking I have to do it out of work hours - so I've started going in two hours early and just smashing through the stocktaking section by section. Which means waking up at 4.30 to be at work by 5.30. Then working through till 3.30. Add in wedding planning and I haven't had much time to do anything else but sleep! As stocktaking is drawing to a finish and some time in lieu being owed to me - things should start getting slightly less chaotic (hopefully).

I did get my invites out this week - the invites cost less than $50 to make and print - and around $20 to send out via post (with a few being hand delivered).

I'll go into detail of how I created my invites in another post. But for now - it's bouquet making time!