What materials do you need in order to make a wedding invitation?

Question

I have to make a wedding invitation and I don't know where to get the materials and what I should even look for! PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

You can create your wedding invitation online at CropMom at http://www.cropmom.com. CropMom is an online scrapbooking and card-making and collage site.



The gallery has examples, and I believe the site has templates. However, you can create your own. You could upload photos of the couple, add your own text, and chose from the thousands of graphics to create your invitation.



Then save it. Go to My CropMom and click on the invitation. Then click the "share" link. It'll let you enter the email address of the recipient, and your screen-quality creations will be sent via email for free.



For print-quality, you can purchase a JPEG file of your creation (it doesn't cost much) and download it to your computer.



From here, you can either print your invitation at home. Or - what I usually do - is have them printed by SeeHere, Shutterfly or Snapfish.

Answer 2

First figure out what you want your invitations to look like. Just google wedding invitations and look at lots of pictures.

Bare minimum you will need a heavy ink-jet printable paper, printer ink, envelopes that will fit the finished and folded invitation and stamps. Probably scissors and paper glue as well. A craft store will have all of these things, including ribbons or paper punchers or pre-made embellishments for putting on the cards. You can also buy pre-folded printable kits if you're really feeling lost. An office supply store will carry all of the printing supplies you need. You may want to get printable labels too. That makes your job a lot easier because you won't have to address all those envelopes by hand. They also carry ink-jet printable vellum which seems to be used in wedding invitations a lot these days.

A word of advice. Make sure you use the right glue for the job. If you are gluing paper together make sure that you get something from the scrap-book section that says it will not wrinkle the paper. For vellum I found that rubber cement lightly brushed onto both surfaces was good. For ribbon I would use just a little bit of fabric glue like no-sew. Make a test invitation to see if your invite holds up to repeated openings. Always buy a little more than you think you'll need. Trust me, at some point you'll make a mistake and need more of something or find you're short a couple invitations or something.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

Not to be so boastful, but my wedding invitations were a hit! They were inexpensive, classy set to my theme and I made them myself (with the help of my mother-in-law). I went to Michael's craft store and picked up a wedding invitation kit. It included 50 cards, envelopes and response cards. Then I bought a pack of ivory velum paper to put on top with text. I chose the perfect image off the internet and had it printed to the solid part of the invitation....then I took the velum paper and printed the text, two-hole punched the top and placed a beautiful ribbon through. you dont have to spend a lot of money or have a professional ruin your imag of the perfect inviation. have fun!

Answer 4

It depends on the invitation. For ours, we got blank invitation cards, then stamped a design on them (requiring two stamps and two ink pads), printed them on a laser printer, attached a cover sheet of vellum paper with a ribbon (that required a special punch to make the right kinds of holes), and then tied on a charm with matching thread. We got postcards to make the RSVP cards on. I've seen invitations with more stuff and with less stuff. My advice is to go to a crafts store and look at a few samples. Also look at samples of invitations at stationery stores and on-line for ideas. It's fairly easy to replicate most invitations, especially simpler ones.

Answer 5

I also used a kit I purchased at Michael's craft store. It was very afforable and better quality than I expected. I like the line by Brides.com/Gartner Studios. You have to have access to a printer. I saved so much money making it using a kit. It also looked better than my friend who bought her cards from David's Bridal.

Answer 6

All you really would need to do is go to the windows something works and select Wedding Invitation and there you go!

Answer 7

cardstock, its thich colored paper, possiblly some ribbon to tie them close. go to a crat store or kmart for card stock, size the card, print through ur computer or u could go to a printing store to get it better embossed. look up simple wedding invites and try ur best to replicate them.

Answer 8

I used standard weight cardstock (65lb cover stock)

standard weight vellum paper (80lb text)

matching A2 envelopes

and matching A4 envelopes for the RSVPs



any craft store will have these papers and sometimes the envelopes and you can pick what you like.

I ordered my stuff from

http://www.jampaper.com

Answer 9

These days I think you can make it any way you want. If you're not the bride you better discuss it with her. Staples has some materials. Hallmark stores are helpful.

Answer 10

95,100 for homemade wedding invitation ideas..... By the All mighty google *bows*



http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=dyD&q=homemade+wedding+invitation+ideas&btnG=Search



Here is the first link http://www.yourwedding101.com/wedding-invitations/making-wedding-invitations.aspx

Answer 11

you need to go to a craft shop or market stall



you need



cards and envelops

ribbon

self sticky dots to stick things onto the car without leaving a glue stain

scissors

pretty paper and attachments to put on your card

silver or gold word stickers saying 'wedding' or 'invite'

paper inserts to stick inside

glue stick



you need to think of what color you want it and what scheme you want

Answer 12

Go to 123print.com They are so affordable, and you'll end up spending as much on these as you would making them!



Just check the site out!

Answer 13

sky is the limit.

lots of how to websites.

this one has tips too.

http://www.make-your-own-invitations.com/make-your-own-wedding-invitation.html



if you're on a budget try making them at vistaprint with this tutorial

http://www.make-your-own-invitations.com/save-the-date-postcards.html

Answer 14

umm a piece of card and ribbon and envelope

simple x

Answer 15

paper and a computer

answer mine

https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20090416125404AAjbHzf

Answer 16

a professional would probably know.