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melissa nyssen With Formal-Invitations.com an enchanting transformation takes place, an alchemy of sorts. Plain cards turn into beautiful and distinctive designs. By mixing modern, vintage and earth-friendly elements you will end up with a unique invitation sure to get raves. Our unmatched variety of luxury papers and exquisite ornamentation will enhance your personal style, whether you decide to go dreamy and romantic or chic and modern. Inimitable luxury for a fantastic affordable price can be yours. You can create a card so charming your guests will save them. Let your imagination soar.

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Our family-owned stationery boutique is dedicated to providing unique invitations for those who wish for something different. Formal-Invitations.com's distinctive announcements feature luxurious layers of fine papers in the latest colors and textures, adorned with beautiful keepsake embellishments, making them stand out from the rest. We love searching for new papers and adornments to add to our exclusive collection, providing you with an extensive variety to choose from. Our invitations are available as diy (do-it-yourself) invitation kits, custom printed or as paperless pdf files, to fit every budget.

DIY Wedding Invitations Kits

We provide everything needed to make affordable invitations with an expensive look and feel using our exclusive diy wedding invitation kits. The high-end look of these announcements is achieved by using a heavyweight card layered with a printable overlay, adorned with a unique embellishment. Select from over fifty cards, including rich solids, sparkling metallics, vintage and modern prints or handmade cotton petal paper. The invitation overlays are available in translucent vellum to reveal the card underneath or a crisp white, for contrast. The overlay is also provided in standard- sized sheets for easy printing (no tiny sheets to feed!) ...just download our free template, print and cut. Beautiful embellishments add the unique look to these layered invitations, select from chic grosgrain and satin belts, intricate metal charms, natural lokta, glamorous metallic cording with glass beads, delicate unryu sashes, decorative and crystal jewel brads, real skeletonized leaves, exquisite lace and embroidered jacquard wraps, miniature silk flowers and beautiful fine papers sashes. Our announcements were designed to be made easily with our tried, tested and ready-to-go supplies, step-by-step online instructional videos will guide even the most craft-challenged bride. Our diy wedding invitation kits include the card, printable overlay, embellishment and envelope or you can mix and match invitation components to create your own personalized one-of-a-kind design.

Printed Layered Invitations

No time to do-it-yourself? Choose from our beautiful layered invitations featuring luxurious papers and unique embellishments, and we will print the overlay to your specifications. We also offer assembly, as an option.

Printed Full-Color Invitation Cards

We can also create gorgeous full-color custom invitation cards, to use alone or as a custom card for our layered invites, printed to your specifications. Select from our exclusive designs and substitute a color, font or illustration, at no extra charge, or we can use your artwork or photos. After we receive your order, we will email a .pdf file for you to approve then ship printed cards five business days after approval. The cards are also offered as a paperless invitation for you to print or email ...perfect for save-the-dates, rehearsal dinner or showers.

Earth-Friendly Recycled Papers Since 1991

Every effort is made to offer the most earth-friendly invitations made in the USA since we started in 1991. Our envelopes, white overlays, reply cards and cover stock are made from 100% post-consumer recycled fibers, the heavyweight cards are 30-100% recycled or tree-free recycled cotton. We are an approved business by Green America and have been featured in Bride's 75 Best Wedding Sites, Martha Stewart Weddings, Bridal Guide, Instyle, Bridal Bargains and the Style Channel.

"The quality of the papers was superb and the assembling instructions easy to follow. The end result was so impressive that one guest even added a note to his reply saying our invitation was without a doubt the most beautiful of the many they'd received this year. Thanks! "

"I just wanted to thank you so much again for the gorgeous invitations! I'm already sending them out and getting many, many compliments on them! People don't believe me when I tell them they were assembled by me and came from your online store. Thank you again!"

"...I received so many great compliments about the invitations I purchased from your website last year, that here I [placed] an order for another upcoming event....Just wanted to thank you. I am now in receipt of the order and everything was delivered as order. Thank you very much and will be back soon with future orders."

"The invitations were here Friday and they were perfect. Thank you so much, you did a great job and I will certainly use your business again. I am very pleased with the final product. Hats off to you!!"

"I was so pleased with the order. After our invitations were done and sent out, everyone remarked how beautiful and professional and unique they were! I would definitely order these again."

"I WAS REALLY SATISFIED WITH MY INVITATIONS. THEY WERE FAIRLY INEXPENSIVE AND THEY ARE GOOD QUALITY! I LIKED THEM BETTER IN PERSON THAN ON-LINE. I RECOMMEND ANYONE THAT IS PLANNING A WEDDING OR SOME OTHER BIG EVENT TO GO THROUGH THIS SITE. ITS WORTH IT AND WILL SAVE YOU MONEY!"

"their supplies are terrific and high quality. invitations are beautiful, affordable, and look fantastic. i made about 80 invitations and announcements for less than half of the cost, and with handmade paper. it was nice to have a handmade touch from both my assembly and the paper itself! thanks again."

"The invitations arrived quickly and were absolutely beautiful. I received a lot of praise for them and they were very easily assembled. I'll definitely be using your site for my next invitation need."

"Thank you so much for all your assistance with our invitations (we were married two weeks ago). In the weeks preceding the wedding, everyone it seems complimented the invitations. We even had one guy say "hey, I'm a guy and don't usually notice, but those invitations were really cool!" Anyway, they were gorgeous and unique and we loved them...."