Most people are inclined to choose their wedding invitation designs based on pricing. They usually choose the craftsmanship of the card paper, other elements of the wedding invitations to be as cheap as they can be made. In fact, the existence of colors and other extra touches of wedding invitations frequently play more important role in defining the quality of wedding invitations and pricing.

Top notch printing systems use cotton fibers, high quality wood fiber which have been proved and accepted by Forest Stewardship Council or a combination of both fibers. Although the papers incline to have a lot higher in qualit than reprocessed papers which are quite environmental friendly and worth of the cost you spend.

When you are ordering wedding invitations, there are three variables that can affect the price tag :

The weight of the paper

Normal paper that weighs 120 pounds can not be printed with a commercial printer or ink-jet printer. As the result, a heavy invitation card can only be printed with engraving, thermographic inks, or letterpress. This will increase the cost but will produce more beautiful design.

The paper color

Whether you are using white or colored papers on your wedding invitations, just make sure that ink colors can be printed resonantly. However, there has been a fashion in the direction of bold coloring papers. In this case, using a higher quality of printer such as engraving will result more fashionable cards.

Ink Colors

Although there are flat-printing, digital printing and lithiography already used for papers with less than 120 pounds weight, traditional printing is needed to print heavier papers. At this point, any color needs to be executed in a separated press run which boosts prices.

Thinking out of the box sometimes needed in order to create something different from custom. The wedding invitation designs itself has been changing and getting more advance. For that reason, couples who are about to create their wedding invitation designs should think that they'd better to use an "out of the box" wedding invitation idea.

Out of shape

Out of shape means that a wedding invitation card is not always designed to be square or rectangle card. If you want to be unique, you can order different shape of wedding invitation cards which have round, triangle, hexagonal shapes.

Go paper-less

You can use other materials to make your wedding invitations more creative by using bottle, fabrics, etc.

Fashion statement

Create your own wedding invitations design as creative as you want and use some ornates for your design which make a fashion statement of your sense. Add some ribbons, cute belt, buttons, or other fashionable accents.

As we've promised on the previous post, we'll continue talking about other ways to save money on choosing wedding invitations. Let's check it out!

Standard Size Invitations

US Post policy website has declared the standard size of invitation cards that you can send to other people. Based on the policy, you'll be fined an additional cost of $0.13 on one oz. or less envelopes, if any of the following apply :

1. The cards that you send have square form.

2. The invitation cards contain rigid items such as metal and wood

3. There are string, clasps, or other kinds of closure devices on them

4. The cards contain some items that can make the surface inequal

No Reception Card

If your wedding reception will be held in the same place where your wedding ceremony will be held, you do not need to separate reception card. Instead of writing "reception to follow" or "dinner and dancing to follow" you can save the expense of making reception invitation cards. Even if the reception is conducted in different place, you can just add "Reception to follow, **** Club" on the invitation and insert the map and reception details.

Proofread

Many people have experienced of being rushed in re-ordering the invitations just because of the errors. You'd be so much better if confide the proofreading work to your friend or colleague to make sure if there's no error in your wedding invitation.

Postcard RSVP

Rather than using envelope or folded card, you can save money by using a postcard for your RSVP. Not only will save on weight for your invitation postage, you can also save up to $0.15 in postage for each RSVP card.

Order extra invitation cards and envelopes

This might seem counterintuitive  but since almost every couple remembers someone that they have to invite at the last minute, you'll have to a few extra wedding cards. In order to avoid extra cost and time for reprinting and rush charges later, ordering extra invitation cards and envelopes is the best preventation.

If you and your spouse are about to be a budget-savvy couple almost on every area but you do not know how to do that while it's the time to decide many things for your wedding, there's one thing that might not ever cross in your mind where you can save money is the wedding ivitations. Here are the ten ways of saving money on chossing wedding invitations :

Shop around

While party and stationery stores are great places where people can have a wide variety of wedding invitations, those places are certainly not the only places where you can find wedding invitation design. Some other places where you can visit are Kinkos, Staples and other office supply stores, Costco and other discount or warehouse stores, mail-order catalogs and internet. These places mostly offer the same invitations which have different designs and materials that you can choose from.

Different printing techniques

A carved wedding invitation is a kind of wedding invitation designs which people most likely choose, although they may spend more budgets to order this kind of invitation. Actually, if you want to have an alternative for your wedding invitation, you can opt for thermograph which will make raised look and cost you for less mooney, or you can choose the laser printing, which is seen on magazine, postcard, etc, for more casual look.

The little extra

More intricate wedding invitations such as invitations with jackets, bows, multiple layers of paper and other ornaments are commonly popular these days. Those embellishments can really add up for their cost. Instead of going to add more embellishments, you can go for classic look of simple invitation on high quality paper and avoid lined envelopes.

A package deal

Sure, you want to personalize on inviting your guests, but if you are running on a tight budget, looking after company that offers discount packages will be the best solution. Buying wedding invitations as a unit may be cheaper than getting them separately. Moreover, you can get discounts for ordering wedding invitations, thank you cards, or informal stationery at the same time.

One envelope

Using one envelope to send the wedding invitation can help you save more on your budget. Since mail delivery has been developed to be more sophisticated, sending wedding invitation cards will also save your time.

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