Affordable DIY Wedding Invitations By Jeff McDougall

Creating your wedding invitations on your own is an ideal approach to impart style and personality to your wedding, and also is an innovative technique to save your wedding costs. Do-it-yourself wedding invites range from handwritten cards to those printed on home printers with the help of DIY wedding invitation kits or templates; or sometimes, some prefabricated invitations are bought from a wedding invitation dealer and personal touches are added to them.

Sometimes, brides create wedding invites on their own not to save costs, but to add more details and accessories to their invitations to the maximum possible extent. These DIY invitations will be so much elaborate and intricate and will take much time for their design and creation to the extent of costing much more than the invitations that can be bought from a dealer. Also much stress would be experienced in their making.

We don't mean to say that you will have to forego style or sanity for saving cost. There are plenty of exciting, innovative DIY wedding invites which can be created by brides of varying levels of crafting without the need to spend more money or time. Check out these ideas for some unique, personalized DIY invitations which will surely impress your guests.

Printable (fill up blanks) DIY wedding invitations:

Nowadays computers are more high-tech but more user-friendly; so why not use them? You have many options to create your DIY wedding invites on your computer, depending on your computer and design skills. Pre-designed invitations are available from many super stores, craft stores and invitation printers; you can buy them and insert your wedding details using your home printer.

This idea will be wonderful for the brides who are cost-conscious, but not very eager to design the entire wedding invitation. Yet it won't work if you don't have a printer suitable for the job. So before buying the blank DIY invitations, confirm whether your printer can printout in the particular paper type of such invitations. Otherwise you will have to take the costlier option of buying a printer.

Total DIY wedding invitations:

Perhaps you may find 'fill up blanks' to be too easy or you may not get those printable invitations which meet your requirements such as theme, color, etc. You want your invitation to be totally unique. Whatever the reason may be, you can go ahead with total DIY wedding invites to achieve your objective. This will require buying your card stock, creating the design template, cutting the paper and printing the invitations - the whole works!

This idea is great and will work only if you have the necessary materials, tools and skills. If you have to buy everything from scissors to printer, you will have to think again. When you choose this option you should be able to create truly distinctive and beautiful invitations that live up to your expectations in style, theme and personality; otherwise it will be a collapse. So, you should consider the cost and availability of materials and time before embarking on the project.

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