by Jessica Jardine

Created on: April 17, 2010

With the new age of technology couples are now considering and exploring the option of creative, personal and less costly invitations to their special day. DIY invitations can often give a couple more creative freedom and time to spend on other planning arrangements necessary to ensure a smooth enjoyable wedding. Creating DIY invitations can prepare a couple on the practice and journey of working together as a team to effectively accomplish a common goal. Here you will find a list of materials you will need as well as steps you will have to make to create your very own wedding invitations.

Quality printer                                                                                                                                                                                

Card templates

Paper

Envelopes

 Decide on the color or colors you would like to use for your DIY invitations. It is often useful to match the color that you use on your selected paper with your envelopes.

 Select your invitation paper. You have a choice of not only color but the thickness and quality of paper that you intend to use. Your software should provide easy stationary layout and photo tools to use.

 Purchase matching envelopes. You can be creative with the selection of your envelopes by deciding to either go with a plain envelope or envelopes that come with designs and images. Use your particular software program to keep track of your addresses and to print them out on your envelopes.

Select a wedding font. You can select wedding fonts from the selections available to you from your software or from options

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