Formal-Invitations.com in Wedding Essentials Magazine
What’s a modern, chic bride-to-be to do in this uncertain economy? She wants to spend wisely for her upcoming wedding, but she doesn’t want to ‘settle’. She might be scaling back her budget, but she doesn’t want to scale back her expectations.
One place she can start is with the wedding invitations, where there are several options. Common, unremarkable, flat party invitations found everywhere can run $3-5 apiece, and high end letterpress and engraved specialty shop invitations can run $5-10 and often much more. The cost for diy wedding invitations is typically an affordable $1-$2 each. With these prices, the significant cost savings of doing them herself is increasingly attractive.
Other advantages of do-it-yourself invitations are the ability to receive supplies and create invitations within a few days, customized wording for individual guests is possible, plus they are easy to reprint quickly and cheaply.
Considering the comparisons, creating wedding invitations herself is a smart, budget-friendly choice. But maybe our bride is not the scrapbooking or crafty type; maybe an art project is the last thing on her mind with everything else there is to do. Our chic bride will be hard pressed to find materials or products she likes in craft and office supply stores anyway; typically they carry poor quality flimsy papers and templates that are hard to set up. She wants her invitation to sing ‘beautiful and creative’, not scream ‘cheap’. She wants a combination of high quality, a unique style & design at an affordable price point.
Layered invitations offer a great way to have it all, using a printer-compatible overlay and a separate heavyweight background card, our bride can create an invitation with a luxurious substantial feel. She can add texture, dimension and interest with a unique keepsake embellishment that will make her invitation sparkle with individuality.
Recessionista brides have discovered a great online source for unique and affordable wedding invitations from Formal-Invitations.com. Founded in 1991 by Melissa Nyssen, as an alternative to high priced custom invitations and cheap, flimsy, kits that were difficult to setup and print. Their company mission is to provide premium, one-of-a-kind, earth-friendly and incredibly easy do it yourself wedding invitations, all for under $1 each. The exclusive invitations are not available in stores, only directly from them at http://www.formal-invitations.com to provide the lowest possible price.
They offer over 50 heavyweight background cards in the latest colors and patterns, plus metallics and tree-free petal papers and silk-embedded cotton papers. All are precut and sized to fit in their quality 80# envelopes, made from 100% post consumer fibers.
Overlays are offered in translucent vellum or opaque 65# white, made for ink jet and laser printers/copiers. The standard sized sheets are easy to work with…no small sheets that are more difficult to setup and feed through the printer. It’s easy to modify the free templates then print and cut. Online instructional videos and paper guides are included to help even the most craft-challenged bride.
Formal-Invitations.com’s extensive line of over 200 keepsake embellishments include exquisite paper sashes from around the world, luxurious jacquard embroidered belts, bright and pastel grosgrain belts with buckles, beautiful solid brass charms, sparkling jewel brads in 12 gemstone colors, embossed flower petal brads, faux wax seals, skeleton leaves, miniature silk flowers plus satin and sheer ribbons.
Choose from 100+ kits, in prices ranging from 46¢-$1.22 per invitation and include the heavyweight background card, printer-friendly overlay, embellishment and envelope. Or mix and match from the wide variety of papers and embellishments to create your own personal, unique design.
The gorgeous Gerbera Daisy DIY invitation kits from Formal-Invitations.com are now available exclusively on Amazon.com for $14.95 +$1.99 shipping. Suitable for a garden, spring or summer wedding, bridal shower, Quinceañera, sweet sixteen or summer party, these beautiful invitations feature a heavyweight 100% recycled card, layered with translucent vellum and embellished with a sparkling crystal brad. These gorgeous invitations were designed to be made easily using free wedding invitation templates, just change the wording, print and cut …no tiny sheets to print on! Visit http://www.formal-invitations.com/diy to download templates and view step-by-step instructions with video. Premium invitation kit includes (10) 100% recycled heavyweight 100# 5.125″x7″ background cards, (10) 100% recycled 80# white envelopes, (3) 8.5″x11″ standard sized sheets of ink-jet/laser and copier compatible translucent vellum that will provide (12) 4.25″x5.5″overlays (four per sheet), (10) crystal jewel brads, PLUS BONUS (10) 100% recycled place cards or favor/gift tags. Plant-based EarthFirst packaging is certified compostable.
