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Mrs. Bell Pepper, Philadelphia Age and Occupation: 28, Resident Physician Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Resident Physician Engagement Date: May 30, 2006 Wedding Date: June 2007 Venue: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts About Me: I love whimsical details and design, everything that *sparkles*, sipping on hazelnut lattes, pugs, shopping for antiques and second-hand goods, scenic photography, delicate flowers, and checking out new restaurants in the city with my fianc??. We are planning our wedding at a unique city venue for about 75 close family members and friends. I have a lot of DIY ideas and I like to blog about ways to save money on your wedding.
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DIY Invitations

May 11th, 2007 @ 11:33 am by Mrs. Bell Pepper

I had been debating for several months whether or not we should DIY our invitations. I looked through several websites and I absolutely loved invites from Kate Spade, the White Aisle, Grapevine, and My Gatsby. The designs are so beautiful but the costs were unbelievable. I couldn’t imagine spending over $1000 for invites - I would rather save the money for our honeymoon or for something else special for our wedding. After much research online, I finally decided to DIY our invitations using these sources for our material: Paper and More, Envelopments, and Michaels for adhesive and paper cutting supplies.

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The total cost for all the materials was approximately $300 for about 125 invitations. Very reasonable but the amount of time to DIY was about 2-3 days worth of my time. Patience is definitely required - there were times where I ripped up several botched up invitations, but I remained pretty calm and the hard work really paid off! :) Next project: DIY placecards, table numbers, menu cards, and programs.

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Andria

I love them!!! Could you give some more details? Like what you bought from where, and a brief cost breakdown, etc. Your issue with deciding on DIY or not, the type of invitations, all of it, is pretty much my situation exactly!

 
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bliss

These look great!

 
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kp

they look great! did you print them yourself?

 
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MK

I’m in absolute awe of your talents– those are amazing. I wish I could DIY, but I’m hopeless and clumsy. You would have paid a fortune to have those done professionally– you should go into business :)

 
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Andria

did you use a rubber stamp for the design on the invite?

 
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vtjill

These are really beautiful. Great job!

 
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kattail

I’m also curious about the images. did you get them on line and print them or buy stamps and stamp them on?? exp. the bird on your RSVP. thanks, and great job

 
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Erika

Great job - same curiosities of above posters..

 
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Miss Tomato

I need a paper trimmer like that. Where did you buy yours?

 
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Tiffany q

gorgeous! I love the purple.

 
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Andria

Is it just me, or do the invites look like 5×7’s and then in the very last picture, look like 5×5’s? It’s bugging me! I know the last picture is at an angle, but I can’t get over how they look so much shorter than they do in all the rest of the pictures!

 
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Keny

These are so pretty! Congrats!

 
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Miss Bell Pepper

I found the images online and then I used Adobe Illustrator to design the invites.

 
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Iris

Very professional. How are you mailing them and what is the postage rate?

 
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Miss Bell Pepper

Andria, looks like the last photo is kind of distorted. It is supposed to be 5×7

 
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jmnz

Great invites but could I get more info on the paper cutter? That looks better than my Purple Cow one.

 
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Miss Bell Pepper

I bought the paper cutter from Office Depot. I think you can find one at any office supplies store in your area.

 
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kitty

oh so pretty! give us details please. =)

 
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Andria

I’m astonished that you only spent $300, and I’m so curious as to how you did it! Where did you purchase the pocketfolds, backing layer, and invitation layer? And where did you find a design like that online? I’ve seen similar rubber stamps but nothing quite like that, I’m wondering what type of website has those kind of designs.

 
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VintageBride

Omigosh!!! These are gorgeous!! Please, please, please post more info on how to DIY these!!

 
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Mrs. Bell Pepper, Philadelphia Age and Occupation: 28, Resident Physician Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Resident Physician Engagement Date: May 30, 2006 Wedding Date: June 2007 Venue: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts About Me: I love whimsical details and design, everything that *sparkles*, sipping on hazelnut lattes, pugs, shopping for antiques and second-hand goods, scenic photography, delicate flowers, and checking out new restaurants in the city with my fianc??. We are planning our wedding at a unique city venue for about 75 close family members and friends. I have a lot of DIY ideas and I like to blog about ways to save money on your wedding.

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