Worth the money or DIY?

shaylagirl · June 2013

So, I'm looking at ordering invites online.

For $1 an envelope, they will print on the inner envelope your guest's name, and for an additional dollar, they'll print your return address AND your guest's address on the outer envelope.

Worth the cost to pay basically an additional $2/invite and save the time and frustration, or do it myself on my printer at home?

To order extra envelopes; 25 envelopes for about $11 (in case of screw ups during at home printing).

jenphotochick · June 2013

I had that option.... I chose for them to write my return on the RSVP cards, but all the envelopes I did myself

shaylagirl · June 2013

I was quick glancing over my guest list; I have 55 people on it (they have to be ordered in groups of 25, so I'm ordering 75...ANNOYING!), so in THEORY I'll have extra envelopes if I botch some. And I can always buy some cheap envelopes and use them as samples.

Although, $110 can be used for something else easily. *sigh*

jenphotochick · June 2013

Ack I had the same problem I had like 79-82 something like that so had to order 100:( I did get the extra envelopes just because mine are weird size but I can always use them for thank yours or something

SewInLoveWithDMB · June 2013

I would probably print the names of guests myself.

I don't fully understand - but in comparison terms - I had our rsvp address printed, as well as the return address on the exterior envelope flap. We are not having interior envelopes, so this for me would be a total waste of $1 an invite.

Printing the envelopes with guests' addresses has not been that bad. And my tester was a piece of paper I cut to the same size as the envelope. I didn't need to waste actual envelopes.

ETA: We are sending approx. 175 invites

archerstar · June 2013

A friend offered to do calligraphy for me and I had a stamp designed for the return address and RSVP cards. I have a lot of invites going out so I probably would have otherwise paid to have them done by someone.

shaylagirl · June 2013

Curse you for being so practical and smart @SewInLoveWithDMB about cutting up paper! *headdesk*

LOL!!!

I -believe- that the RSVPs come with an envelope, although, yeah...duh, what is the purpose of putting their name on the inner envelope? They already KNOW it's for them.

*hangs head*

I has the dumbs today.

Stina51286 · June 2013

You lost me.... YOu said you have 55 guests, I am assuming most of those are considered one couple? So technically, approximately 27.5 invites, round up 28 invites, not 55. Or did I read your thing wrong?

Our situation if that didn't make sense: We have 373 guests on the list, take into consideration the couples/the few kids that are invited, we have 175 invites, not 373.

Stina51286 · June 2013

And to answer your original question (sorry), I wouldn't spend the money on printing on the envelopes, unless it falls within your budget.

shaylagirl · June 2013

Whoops!! Man, I fail at the internets today!!

I meant I'm sending out 55 invites, so there's more than 55 people.

I cannot brain today as I have the dumb.

schellzinator · June 2013

I would save the money and hand write - but I like my handwriting and I'm cheap when it comes to stuff like that

jenphotochick · June 2013

DIY tip! My invites came with a card stock template with lines on it; we just stuck it inside the envelopes and you could see through to the lines .... For those of us who write crooked without a guide

[Deleted User] · June 2013

If they can print the return addresses on your RSVP envelopes, DO IT. We ended up doing labels which was fine. I printed the addresses on our envelopes, which wasn't awful once I figured out the settings on my printer. But the RSVP envelopes were too small to run through my printer, or I was having a case of the dumbs and couldn't get it arranged correctly.

The clear labels FH bought were like, $11 for something like 300 of them.

09McSteph03 · June 2013

I also vote DIY. I think it's too expensive for what you are getting. If you can get away without an inner envelope I'd say do that too. May not be technical etiquette but no inners for us.

I bought a stamp off etsy for $22 that says Stephanie and FI and has our address. I used that stamp for the invite envelope (stamped on the back flap) and then for the return RSVPs. You could try that (vista print has some nice cheaper ones) too and just stamp the RSVP envelopes yourself. For comparison, I have 65 invites and it wasn't tedious.

ETA: I also have clear labels - we used them for the Save the Dates and they worked out wonderfully. You could use those for your RSVPs for sure.

Stina51286 · June 2013

I used clear labels on our invites. They were $4 or something like that at Wal-Mart for 600 of them.

ETA: For the return address.

shaylagirl · June 2013

Michael's actually will print your address for FREE on your RSVP envelopes. THANK YOU MICHAEL'S!!!

I do still have clear labels from my STDs which I can use if I need to. I've decided to order extra envelopes (25 extra) and will put everything through the printer myself. I figure with that many invites, and what I'm saving having THEM do it, I'll just buy more ink and figure it out my own dang self!

Thanks everyone!

kstan08 · July 2013

I bought return address labels for my RSVPs that matched my invitations. I didn't put a return address on my actual invitations...hopefully I won't regret this. I think it may have been $11 for about 120 labels.

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