Every bride needs to find ways to cut costs when planning a wedding. When you are creative or crafty, sometimes money can be saved by making things yourself, yet this can turn out better in some cases than others. This article looks into the free printable wedding invitation trend, and asks the question: thrifty or tacky?
To make a successful stab at printing your own wedding invitations, you will need a few things. The right tools are key; just like you wouldn t want your jeweler to make your wedding rings with cigar bands and tape, nor should you attempt to print your own wedding invitations with a dot matrix printer and plain white copy paper! Even at no cost, they would not be good enough to use for your special day. The things which will be very important to undertake printing your own wedding invitations are: a high quality printer, nice cardstock, an eye for color and design, and plenty of patience. In the end while your invitations may be free, you still want them to look expensive and elegant.
There are a variety of sites from which one can download free printable wedding invitation templates. They are generally designed for a folded sheet of standard 8 ½ x 11 paper, however, a single sheet invitation in a traditional 5 ½ x 7 ½ size will be much more formal and will not look like you did it yourself. Some of the downloadable wedding invitation templates are fairly simple, not much more than a format to help you lay out the wedding invitation wording, perhaps with a few scrolls and flourishes. Others have quite a bit of wording or poetry on the front of the card, often accompanied by a picture of red roses. Those are the diy invitations that are going to look tacky and cheap. It is far better to stick with the simpler format and make it special with the use of a nice quality paper and a complementary ink color.
Computer savvy brides and grooms can make their own printable wedding invitations with excellent results. Start by getting a fine cardstock in the appropriate size, and do a test run to make sure that your printer can accommodate the thickness of the paper. Then download free clip art with a wedding motif which appeals to you and experiment with different fonts and layouts for the wedding invitation wording. Any computer will have fonts which are appropriately elegant, so that part should be easy. A fantastic idea to get inspiration for really beautiful invitations that will impress your guests is Martha Stewart s wedding website – no tacky printed roses there!
And finally, if this all seems like too much to manage, don t drive yourself crazy trying to make free wedding invitations to print. A great middle ground is to buy imprintable stationery at a shop, which will come with instructions for layouts and is already beautifully decorated. You will still save a hug amount of money over ordering custom invitations, and you can be confident in achieving a pretty result. And don t worry about not getting your wedding invitations for free, because you can still trim your budget for the jewelry and bridesmaid gifts, food and drink, and flowers in little ways which will more than cover a modest expenditure for elegant wedding invitations. As they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression!
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