paper weight?

ntagnello

We are just in the preliminary stages of researching invites, but this really isn't an area we'd like to splurge and blow our budget.  However, we'd like something of nice quality and not cheap-feeling.  We're planning on the invite, reception card, and reply postcards.  We're going to get save the dates but they don't have to match exactly, hopefully just along the same theme (art deco 1920s-ish).

Here's my question: we have found a site that has some pretty good deals, we like their designs, and it is highly customizable.  Their standard for paper weight is 94lb, but other vendors have all listed 110lb.  Is that really going to matter?  Like I said, we'd love to save some cash but don't want our invitation packs to feel cheap-y.  (Haha!  I never thought I'd be hemming&hawwing over paper weight.  Brides, amiright?!)

ntagnello

Awesome!  That is exactly what I think, too - I'd like to have a nice invitation, but it seems preposterous to spend tons of money on something that will go right into the trash after they get the necessary info from it.

lovesclimbing

We spent about $250 on ours.  That included a 5x7 flat invitation, envelopes, tissue paper (cut ourselves), and 4x6 prints of one of our engagement shots.  Yea, I wouldn't go overboard on them.  The only people who will keep them are you, your parents, his parents, and possibly grandparents.

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84rinne

Yes I think 94lb is still a pretty good weight for invite card. If you want thicker, you can try buying extra cardstock for cheap somewhere like Michaels and layering it underneath.

Just remember that text paper weight and cardstock paper weight are not the same.

SimplyImagine

94lb is still  a good weight. As long as it is not "text weight" paper. That is weighted different from cardstock.