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In honor of officially mailing our wedding invitations (YAY!), here’s the final budget breakdown!

My original guess for how much our invitations might cost was around $450. And I thought I was budgeting extremely high, and we would probably end up spending less. Ha.

You got me, invitations. You really got me.

Okay, here we go!

Invitation Suite Ordered from Vistaprint

200 6X9 Flat Invitations, 200 White Envelopes (Uploaded our own design)

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$87.70

RSVP Cards, 200 White Envelopes (Uploaded our own design)

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$82.72

150 Envelope Enclosures (we ended up cutting our list down a bit by the time we needed these—so that is why we didn’t order a full 200)

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$185.00

Postage

First round of postage

The stamps we ordered:

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$88.00

Second Round - The envelope enclosures weighed down our invites over the $.44 limit.

Here’s the $.29 cent stamps we ordered to cover the difference:

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$58.00

Additional Miscellaneous Items

Custom Stamp for RSVP Return Envelopes
$13.49

420 Return Address Labels
$15.73

20 extra invitation envelopes just in case
$2.24

Rush order shipping
$35.19

Corner Rounder
~$4

Grand Total:

$572.07*

Price Per Invitation with Postage:

$2.86 (if we had sent out the full 200)
or
$3.81 (for the 150 we actually sent out)

*We also sent a thank you gift basket (cost: $100) for the graphic designer who designed all of our wedding stationery free of charge, but I wasn’t sure whether or not to include that in the total.

Want to see a great compilation of other bees’ semi-DIY and Professional invitation budgets? Go here. Or, for 100% DIY invite budget breakdowns, go here.