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One of the things that prompted me to design our invitations was the cost. Those booklet-style invites I loved cost 7 pounds each! I’m not sure of the exchange rate, but OUCH!
I spent a lot of time researching paper and printing for our invitations. Here’s the final tally.
Total: $447.00
I made 165 invitations, with a bunch of leftovers.
Cost per invitation: $2.71
They cost us 62 cents to mail, and 29 cents for the RSVP, so the grand total was $3.62 cents per invitation, postage included. Not bad.
I didn’t include any tools I bought for the process (my Xyron, sliding paper cutter with perforating wheel, and Crop-O-Dile).
Did DIYing your invitations ultimately save you money, or in the end, did it come out to approximately the same as paying a pro (after you bought all the necessary craft tools)?
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After all was said and done, I think we ended up spending around $6 or $7 per invite. Not to mention the countless hours we spent fighting with our printer. If I had to do it over again - I would have either paid for them to be professionally printed, or ordered them entirely through a website or invitation shop!
The biggest plus was I learned how to use Illustrator.
I’ve been eyeing those crop-a-diles for a while and I totally want one.
I think I just like saying the name.
I haven’t tried it yet, I’m just in the early stages.
However, I just love those layered invites, and they get expensive (and heavy) fast. I have a scrapbook and stamping background, so I think I will enjoy making them. I am really curious about the printing quality, though.
How does the printing look coming from Kinkos? What kind of techniques are available to you?
If we’re calculating correctly, we’re looking at $1.75 per invite (plus postage)…
The most expensive single thing was printer cartridges, at $85! But at least we can use those later too…
I thought I would save $200 on invitations by doing them myself, but it came out to exactly the same as what professional ones would have been. Granted I upped the quality of the materials, but still.
I finally gathered everything and will be letterpressing them this week. I hope they turn out! Because if they don’t that will be an expensive problem to fix…..
We DIY’d our invites, but I have yet to total up what I spent on paper, etc. to get a per invite cost. I’ll have to do that!
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Mrs. Crab Cake, Columbus, GA
Age and Occupation: 25, Registered Nurse
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Director of Education and Living History for a museum
Engagement Date: April 6, 2008
Wedding Date: June, 2009
Blogging Since: November 26, 2008
Venue: Holy Family Catholic Church, reception: National Infantry Museum
About Me: I'm a perfectionist trying to balance two jobs, motherhood, my craft obsession, and wedding planning. I am obsessed with all things wedding, especially creative ideas for saving money and DIY projects. A Southern Belle at heart, I love anything southern, especially sweet tea, grits, afternoon thunder storms, crab cakes, and good old Southern hospitality. Mr. Crab Cake and I are planning a vintage inspired wedding with tons of Southern flare (can y'all say that with a thick Southern drawl?).
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