DIY... printing?

[frenchie]

I was just curious... When you make your DIY invitations, do you hand-write everything, home-print everything, or go to a printer to just print the basics and make the rest yourself? I'm still hesitating between the last two solutions.

[lizardbnorton]

We are going to print examples at home and then take them in to Staples or some other office store to get them copied.

[bichonlvr]

We home printed everything so far that was DIY!

[firespirit]

So far I've printed everything at home too. But we are only inviting about 50 people, so It's gone pretty fast.

[miranda]

I printed a sample at home but then took them to Staple's to be printed. My dinky little printer couldn't handle 150 invitations, plus all the inserts!!

[StJohnBride]

We did all printing ourselves (except the envelopes, which we have yet to tackle). We priced it out for a printer to do them -- 50 invites (invitation, RSVP card, map) would have cost at least $100. DIY route: FH bought new ink for $50 and we can use it for months to come.

HTH

[samantha01]

I didn't do my wedding invitations DIY, but I did do the bridal shower invites and a favor for the bridal shower.
We just did sheets of labels for the outside of the envelopes, and for the actual invitation, I just printed on resume paper and taped to the cardstock.
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p171/community01/weddingbridalshower.jpg

We did these at home.

[StaceyMc]

We printed everything at home. Invites, RSVP cards, direction inserts, thank you cards, place cards, favor tags, table numbers, etc.

When I took the invites to Kinkos to get a price, it was expensive and they couldn't get my burgundy ink on my invites done correctly - I spent a ton of time getting it to the "just so" color - so I did it myself. I printed 20 or so at a time. It took a while, but it was worth it.

[gennymac]

I found two printers on sale over Christmas - a photo printer and a good color jet printer and bought them.

Printing is sooo expensive I am doing everything here at home. You can do some really neat things at home. I did all my nieces invitations, directions, rsvp cards, everything from home and they were beautiful.

You can do it and they will look lovely.

Gen

[DaisyBride08]

I bought some cute daisy DIY invitations at a craft store...so I'll be printing my own. My dad bought me a really awesome printer a few years ago, it has helped SO much with the wedding stuff!

[sjk1431]

We will be printing them all at home.