Weddingbee Blog

When we left off in part 1, I was crying because our invites and additional documents were just thrown in the envelope and I didn’t care for everything sliding around inside.

I sought out advice from our wedding planner, Shelley, about what to do. It turns out that she was actually already planning on swinging by a stationery store and would see what they sold that would help us. She wound up putting these on hold for us:

Diagonal Folder Enclosure from Paper Source

The RSVP card and envelope tuck nicely right into that little fold, and then our invite goes right on top. The top 1/3 of the invitation itself actually sticks out of the top, but I really like it because it looks kind of like this when you pull it out of the envelope.:

You can see the introduction paragraph but have to open it up to see what you are invited to. Then once you open it up, it looks like this:

I am so glad we’re adding the enclosure to our invites. It makes me so much happier. The only downside is that the enclosures alone wound up being $185 and combined with our original invitation order from Vistaprint and stamps (which we may now have to double up on since the enclosures added a lot of weight to the envelope), we are now looking at a $500+ cost for our DIY invites. Ouch! This was an area we definitely under-budgeted for. So take note!

All that’s left now is to check their weight (fingers crossed for not needing extra stamps), finish addressing, and drop them in the mail!

Did your invitations wind up being more expensive or less expensive than you originally anticipated?