Invites fit to send to royalty, for less-than-royal prices!
Before the cost breakdown, here’s a quick date breakdown because I always wanted to see examples of what was mailed when I was planning:
We sent out our save the dates just over 6 months before the wedding. Everyone got one, even relatives that had known for 5 months beforehand when and where it was.
We sent our invites 3 months before the wedding.
We set our RSVP date 4 weeks (just under) before the wedding.
Grain of salt to read our invite costs with: both Cinnamon Buns and I were terrified of having not enough invites, so we ordered extra. A lot extra. This main round of invites invited 80 people, and with the various couples and family units, we needed about 60 actual invites. You’ll see how many we actually ordered. 
Invite Costing:
Printing (and shipping to Canada) via CatPrint on cotton stock (100 each of 1 5×7 invite, 1 4×5.5 RSVP, 1 4×5.5 info card): $161.72
Envelopes from Reid’s Stationery (80 A7 blue, 80 A2 green - we splurged to have coloured envelopes): $84.00
Postage: $53.21 (we just made it under the regular postage weight! Also, postage rates always go up in January in Canada, so in December I bought 100 permanent stamps at the old, lower rate for mailing within Canada)
Total: $298.93 (including postage) / $245.72 (without postage)
Call it 80 invites, as we bought 80 envelopes, and our per-invite/postage not included cost is: $3.07. The top contender of the invites we looked at before going this route was $6.50!
How many extra invites did you get? Were you as paranoid as we were?
Definitely worth the peace of mind!
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