Ordering printed wedding invitations, but making my own inserts?

tina07451

Hi,

I am hurrying to finish up my wedding invitations, as my wedding is in December! We are inviting 300 plus people and it is fairly likely that 90% are coming (they are all from the same area about 2.5 hours away). Since we are doing a Saturday evening reception with open bar, I am looking to cut the budget in other places. 

I have found several rather plain invitations from places like Exclusively Weddings or Wedding Paper Divas, and I am happy with them, just not the prices for inserts. I was thinking of ordering printed invitations and rsvp cards, and making the reception cards, a directions card, and a card for hotel accommodations myself and getting them printed on nice cardstock at Kinko's. We need all of the inserts because a large number of our families are very old fashioned or are just elderly and do not have or use computers, so our wedding website with all of the information will be fairly useless. It will cost me a fraction to print the inserts myself but still have the nice invitation cards (I tried designing my own and hated them). I was just wondering if any other brides have done this or where they got invites printed with a lot of inserts!

Thanks and sorry for the long post

itzMS

tina07451 said:

Hi,

I am hurrying to finish up my wedding invitations, as my wedding is in December! We are inviting 300 plus people and it is fairly likely that 90% are coming (they are all from the same area about 2.5 hours away). Since we are doing a Saturday evening reception with open bar, I am looking to cut the budget in other places. 

I have found several rather plain invitations from places like Exclusively Weddings or Wedding Paper Divas, and I am happy with them, just not the prices for inserts. I was thinking of ordering printed invitations and rsvp cards, and making the reception cards, a directions card, and a card for hotel accommodations myself and getting them printed on nice cardstock at Kinko's. We need all of the inserts because a large number of our families are very old fashioned or are just elderly and do not have or use computers, so our wedding website with all of the information will be fairly useless. It will cost me a fraction to print the inserts myself but still have the nice invitation cards (I tried designing my own and hated them). I was just wondering if any other brides have done this or where they got invites printed with a lot of inserts!

Thanks and sorry for the long post

If you're inviting 300 people, that's probably 175 invitations, max. So don't forget that fact! I did at first, and started ordering 260 invitations when we only needed 125... ;-)

It's okay to print inserts separately at Kinkos or wherever. I'd even be fine with them printed at home on paper that has a nice design or a heavier weight (not your standard office paper).

 

southernbelle0915

We printed inserts on cardstock that didn't exactly match our invitations that we bought on clearance at Michael's. It was no big deal. People were able to find our website, figure out where to book a hotel, etc. That's what really  matters. 

emmyg65

We did this. At first, I designed the inserts with fonts similar to the ones on our invitations, but then I stumbled on exactly the same fonts on a free font site. We printed them on nice paper from Paper Source. Regardless of whether the inserts match exactly, I think designing your own and printing them at Kinko's is smart and budget-friendly.

LDubHawksFan

We did this. I bought card stock at Michaels and printed our accommodation and map inserts as well as programs. I got our stationary through an etsy designer so I paid $5 for her to make a digital monogram and used that to tie my hand printed items to the others, but that isn't a huge deal

hheartsc22

We printed inserts ourselves on business cards. I used similar font colors to the ones on the invitation and they were fine.