Thinking about wedding invitation kits? One of the first things you need to do once you have set the date for your wedding is draw up your guest list and send out your invitations.

As with many aspects of wedding planning, when it comes to the invitations, many couples nowadays are choosing to design and make their wedding invitations themselves by using wedding invitation kits. There are two main reasons for this. The first one is financial – weddings are becoming increasingly expensive, so couples are always looking for ways to cut costs. The other is that we are seeing a move away from the more traditional, formal wedding style and instead towards more modern weddings, with more and more couples wanting to personalise their day as much as possible.  And this starts with the invitations, which are the first glimpse your guests will have of your personal style and the overall theme of your wedding.

Using Wedding Invitation Kits

If you want to create your own invitations, then wedding invitation kits are a great way to save money, but without sacrificing style or scrimping on quality. What’s great about wedding invitation kits is that they are cheaper than professionally made invitations, but they rarely look cheap – no-one would ever know that you had made them yourself using a wedding invitation kit! You can buy simple-to-use kits in many stationery stores, or you can shop for them online, where you will find a whole host of designs to choose from, to suit any style and budget.

There are basically two different options available to you – you can either buy a DIY wedding invitation kit, which includes blank cards that you can customise and then either write by hand or run through a printer, or you can design everything online and have the finished wedding invitations printed and sent to you by post.

Print At Home Wedding Invitation Kits

If you order a print-at-home kit, you will receive everything you need to put together your invitations yourself – blank cards, envelopes, enclosures – and detailed, easy-to-follow instructions on how to print them on your home printer. All you need to do is choose the style of invitation and the colour of the paper, and you do the rest yourself. Large stores such as Target or Staples sell these kind of wedding invitation kits in a variety of styles ranging in price from $20 to $40 – each wedding invitation kit includes 50 invitations, 50 envelopes, 50 response cards and 50 response envelopes. There is a large selection available online (just search Google), some of which can also be purchased at your local Target store.

The only potential downside of going the DIY wedding invitation kit route is that once you have received the kit, putting the invitations together can be a time-consuming task, especially if you plan to write them all by hand. But you could always get some of your family and friends involved to help you out – you could even have fun with it and host a wedding invitation-making party! If you decide to print your wedding invitations, you need to make sure you have a good quality printer, otherwise they might not turn out quite as well as you had hoped. Also, make sure you proofread the wording very carefully before you print them, as it’s very easy for errors to creep in. If spelling is not your strong point, ask someone else to proofread them for you!

Done For You Wedding Invitation Kits

If, like many brides-to-be, you don’t think you will have the time to make the invitations yourself, you can pay a little bit extra and have the invitations printed for you. If you choose this option, there are kits to suit every budget:

They range from budget wedding invitation kits, where you can choose from a few simple designs on a single-panel card, to more elaborate, and more expensive wedding invitation kits. Two of the most popular styles for customisable wedding invitations are pocket wedding invitations, which are great if you want to add lots of inserts, and layered invitations, which can consist of several layers of card usually tied together with ribbon, and look very stylish and professional.

Whichever style of wedding invitation kits you choose, the process is the same. First you choose the paper and ink colour, then select a wording scenario or add your own wording, customise the font, choose your envelopes, select any additional inserts you want, such as RSVP cards and envelopes, view a preview of your finished invitation, order as many as you need, and they will be printed and sent to you by post. Obviously the more invitations you order, the cheaper the individual price. You can do all of this online, it is really quick and easy, leaving you more time to focus on other aspects of your wedding planning… so get online and check out the right wedding invitation kits for you today!