10 guests...how to invite

Re: 10 guests...how to invite

• JennyColada member

  

  March 2014

  I am only have 8 guests, and we are just going to verbally tell them the time and place. I may just hand write a card with the included info, but I'm not getting anything printed.

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• AddieCake member

  

  March 2014

  It's a wedding. I think weddings deserve the formality of paper invitations. I know they come in sets of 25, but I would just suck it up and pay for them even though you won't use them all. You could also get DIY kits that might be less expensive.

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• JoanE2012 member

  

  March 2014

  lookame3639 said:

  I'm wondering how I should go about inviting only 10 guests. It's only our parents and one or two very close friends. Professional invites only start at orders of 25 or more and I feel it's tacky to just say "hey our wedding is on X date at y local" or tacky to send an email invite. I considered possibly making them or getting some stationary and printing them off myself. I also considered easy but again were running into the orders of 25 or more...any ideas?

  I would absolutely send formal paper invites.  It's your wedding, not a backyard BBQ.  I'd pay for the extras and find somewhere else to cut budget if cost is an issue.  Good luck!

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• CMGragain member

  

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  We used Vistaprint and we were very pleased.  They sell as few as 10, and are very budget friendly.
  
  edit : frequently they have promotions where 10 invitations with plain envelopes are FREE!  You just pay postage.
  

  

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• 00kim00 member

  

  March 2014

  I printed mine myself anyway, and if I only had 10 guests (so maybe 5 invites, if they're all couples?), I personally would definitely print them. Lots of craft stores sell fancy paper by the sheet, so you could just buy as many as you need.
  
  Another option would be to buy the minimum somewhere and find something to do with the extras. I've heard of people sending invites to celebrities (President Obama, Queen of England, Cinderella, etc.). These people definitely won't come, but you may get a letter of congratulations you could add to your mementos.
  

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• Jen4948 member

  

  March 2014

  00kim00 said:

  Another option would be to buy the minimum somewhere and find something to do with the extras. I've heard of people sending invites to celebrities (President Obama, Queen of England, Cinderella, etc.). These people definitely won't come, but you may get a letter of congratulations you could add to your mementos.
  

  I wouldn't waste the time and postage.
  

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• KittyKaty20 member

  

  March 2014

  I love Vistaprint! Also, Groupon often has deals for the site.

  

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• lookame3639 member

  

  March 2014

  Alright so FI and I spent some time yest going to different stores and looking at all types of invitations. As much as I wanted to go with a person to print my invites for me i couldn't find one that suited the facility (a castle). We decided on a print your own invite that i am modifying to not look as modern. I'm embossing some parts of the invitations and staining the paper. Things like that. I have 25 to work with so I can modify until I get a look i like.

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• Ven&Radio member

  

  March 2014

  It varies by what style you go with, but Wedding Paper Divas has a minimum order quantity of 10 on alot of their invites.
  

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• Fairyjen1 member

  

  March 2014

      I'm sort of in the same position. I'm only having 17, and two of them are my parents I live with. I was just going to send an e-mail with details, everyone already knows the date, but I've sort of been thinking of either having something printed or being crafty and doing my own so we have something for our scrapbooks. 

  
  

     I will probably break etiquette and just hand deliver some of them. I live with my parents and see my sister every week so it seems silly to mail those. Fi side of the guest list lives out of state, however, so we will mail those. 

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  March 2014

  You could go to craft store and just buy a few pieces of pretty paper & then print the invites on the paper & cut to size. If you have microsoft publisher you could do centered columns really easy & print two invites per page & then cute to size of envelopes. Since it is such a small invite list, it would probably be ok to just list "call by xx/xx to RSVP"

  If you have a paper specialisty store in your area, you might be able to pick up individual envelopes too. Not sure if craft store would have those. But you can probably get away then with spending about $10 or less.

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