Inspiration for today’s post comes from a recent post by Style Me Pretty titled Printing Your Own Wedding Invitations. I’m all about a beautiful invitation. It sets the tone for the entire wedding, especially if you don’t use the save the date cards.

And this is how I figure it: The only people keeping the invitation will be very close family. Even very close friends won’t keep our invitation especially if their inundated with others as well. So why spend a ridiculous amount of money?

That’s not to say I don’t want our invitations to look nice. In actuality I’m kind of a big fan of nicely designed paper products. I just don’t think we have to go broke on them. Look at it like this. Our wedding budget is 12k. I’ve heard of brides spending half or all of that on wedding invitations alone. Crazy, right?

So, I’ve checked out a few of the links provided by Style Me Pretty and this looks to be another case for the DIY girl in me. I can’t promise they’ll turn out perfect, but my pocket will be heavy with all the money we will have saved.

Here’s my one problem: I’m not very creative in the beginning of a project. I can tell you all day long what I don’t what, but it’s kinda hard for me to pin myself down and describe exactly what I do want from scratch. But never fear, I have a few designer friends who would be more than willing ( I hope! Fingers crossed!) to help me out with this part.

Possibly Related Posts:

• Found a Wedding Dress Preservation Box – Should I Buy it?
• Preserving My Wedding Dress
• A Wedding Day Gift For Each Other
• Non-Traditional Color Choices for Your Wedding Dresses
• 4, 3, 2…. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days! (oops – this was drafted 1/19/2011)

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