Gotta Love Green Wedding Invitations!

by Melissa
(Flagstaff, AZ)

I designed these green wedding invitations myself and then had my graphic designer aunt touch it up.

I found the background on a DIY wedding website and downloaded the images for free! I did the basic layout in Microsoft Word and then my Aunt touched it up in Illustrator I believe and saved it has a PDF. This process took just a few hours for me and a couple of house for my aunt.

I got paper from Staples. They are going to be printed on 5 1/2 x 7 ivory paper with same sized envelopes. This pack includes 100 invites and envelopes for $20.

Also at Staples I got a pack of 50 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 vellum paper for $12. On this paper I will be printing a bible verse (Proverbs 18:22) and the vellum will lay on top of the invites (cut to size by cutting it in half!).

A champagne colored ribbion will the tie the two pieces together. This ribbon I got at Michael's for $0.50 for about 6ft. I was originally going to have Staples print the invites for $0.49 an invite and that would come out to about $40 total for printing. However, my aunt is able to print them at her shop for free! We are going to be having between 80-85 invites. I believe total cost for the invites is about $30.

We also applied the same concept for our Save the Date cards. I bought post card paper at Staples for about $23 and we had a friend take pictures of us for our engagement pictures using my fiance's father's nice Canon DSLR camera. My aunt again touched up the basic design I came up with and she is printing them as well. Total cost is around the $23. The attached Save the Date does not have our current engagement picture on it...in fact that picture is from right after my fiance proposed in Central Park in New York!