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With a tight budget guiding so many brides today, do it yourself, or diy wedding invitations are gaining popularity. The options available to ambitious wedding planners are expansive. With a little bit of creativity and patience, you can make your own wedding invitations for hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars worth in savings. Here are a few ways to create stunning homemade wedding invitations that you and your friends will adore.

Bulk shopping at discount stores

Going to places like the Craft Barn, Wal-Mart and other large scale discount stores will be the prime source of your diy wedding invites savings. These stores are filled with supplies such as decorative materials and paper, as well as fun accessories like pearls, glitter, confetti, ribbons, and props that you can use to connect a theme or create an image within your invitations or wedding party. Often these stores will also give you a discount for larger orders, so consider numbers while shopping for supplies.

Wider range of options because of the reduced cost

Because you don’t have to pay for the labor, and are getting all the materials for significantly less, there are tons of options that will suddenly open up for you. While leafing through the printer’s selection, you may have found a style you adore, but was not within your budget. When you make your own wedding invitations, those options that were beyond your reach are brought within your range of possibilities. For this reason, it pays to look through a few professional printers’ portfolios and magazines, even if you are not planning on using them. They are a great source of ideas and inspiration, and you may just find something that you like that is in your price range.

Personalized style or theme

Again, when you make your own wedding invitations, you can get as detailed and individual as you like. For your favorite cousin who helped you through it all you can add a special touch. For your best friends who love lavender, you can spray their diy wedding invites with that fragrance. Personal touches are gripping and memorable, ensuring that no one will forget these homemade wedding invitations, or your special day, anytime soon.

Discount wedding invitations does not have to mean a cheap wedding invitation. Cheap wedding invitations imply poor quality, low grade, limited choices, and lack of style or class. A discount wedding invitation, on the other hand, just means the retailer got a good deal on this model and is passing the savings on to you.

You can find beautiful and unique budget wedding invitations that will fit both your style preference and your budget. One simple way to ensure that you get affordable wedding invitations is to keep everything one ink color. Additional inks will cost you extra. Also, additional weight can cause the price of even the most inexpensive wedding invitations to inflate. Consider reply postcards to alleviate the extra weight of envelopes, and pay attention to the thickness of the paper you choose. The heavier paper will cost more in postage.

Another money-saving tip for wedding planners is to order all your stationary at one time. Stores often offer discounted wedding invitations when purchasing response cards, save the date cards, menus, place cards or thank you notes at the same time. Also, it is better to order a few more invitations that your calculations accounted for than to order a second time. Additional orders and printings will cost you much more than a few extras in the bulk rate.

The most important question to ask when shopping for bridesmaid dresses is will I be able to wear this again after the wedding or is this a one time use item? If the bride has chosen an unusual color scheme and insists you wear lime green, tangerine orange or some other outspoken color that you’re not likely to get much use out of, consider a less expensive option, assuming you can choose the style. Wear-again fashion dresses, such as tea-length and semi-formal bridesmaids dresses are at the height of fashion, especially in these warm summer months. On that same subject, summer weddings are hot, and dancing works up a sweat. If at all possible, make sure your dress is made from a breathable material that will allow you to move. There is nothing more embarrassing than getting up from a complicated dance move with a split down the back of your gown.

When things get ugly, a sense of humor helps: Many women are finding the best thing to do with their unattractive bridesmaid dresses is have a good laugh. Women all over the country ban together at Ugly Dress Parties, where they commiserate with friends and strangers all wearing their horror story dresses. Partygoers eat and laugh while sharing stories about runway embarrassment and other now comical events.

But remember, even if you don’t get the dress you were hoping for, a competent seamstress can do wonders for a doomed dress. Floor length gowns can be shortened to trendy above the knee fashions, and dresses can be taken in, added on, and built up as necessary. Color is a little more of an obstacle, but even an unflattering or loud color can be tamed with a sophisticated black sash, shawl or a little bit of creativity.

Though the star of the show is irrefutably the one in white, bridesmaids are entitled to dress for the occasion, as well. Bridesmaid dresses come with their own unique styles and trends, and below are some of the latest and greatest.

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Bridesmaids are learning from their own, or others’, past mistakes, that spending a fortune on a one-time use apparel item is just not sensible. For this reason, bridesmaid dresses are following the trend of shorter, more flexible styles and materials in more neutral or traditional colors. These versatile, often more casual, dresses can then be used again for future weddings or other occasions.

Styles
Sleeveless or spaghetti straps dresses are popular trends, especially in the warmer spring and summer months. A-line or slip/sheath dresses are popular bridesmaids dresses, as these styles compliment most figures. Two-piece are also making their way onto the bridesmaids dress scene. Silk and chiffon materials are breathable and engaging, and most bridesmaids dresses come in these attractive fabrics. Tea-length dresses are replacing the to-the-floor styles of previous generations, again, for their practical reusability and style. Finally, a fun and fashionable trend in bridesmaid dresses is the color run. The bride chooses a style of dress, and each bridesmaid choosing the color most flattering for them to wear. This idea is also done in reverse, in other words, the bride choosing a color and each maid finding the style that compliments their body type best. Either of these options allows for variety and continuity at the same time, and shows consideration for the bridesmaids’ feelings and style preference.

One of the most important aspects of planning a wedding is the printing and sending of invitations. Your guests have to know who, what, when, and where, and your wedding invitations are going to be the messengers. After the many expenses you’ve accrued, however, spending the extra money to design and print attractive invites might not be appealing or within the budget. That is why so many couples are ordering blank wedding invitations, and printing them on their own. You can make your own wedding invitations at a fraction of the cost that a professional printer would charge. What’s more, you can designer your blank wedding invitations in whatever theme you like. Here are a few ideas for diy wedding invitations.

Be as creative and individual as you like. These are your very own custom wedding invitations. Every detail can be personalized to fit your unique personality or occasion. Elegant or bold font face, size and color are easy ways to make a stellar first impression. The type of card stock or material used for these unusual wedding invitations can also convey a theme or style. And of course, stylized details will enhance and individualize your diy wedding invitations. Glitter, strips of organza tied into bows or unusual packaging will really make your custom wedding invitations a thing to remember.

Because these are diy wedding invitations, you can go to discount stores like Wal-mart or Craft Barn and get supplies in bulk inexpensively. Once you’ve begun, there’s really no end to the possibilities for your blank wedding invitations.

Not long after our engagement, my fiancée and I took a walk to Garden City, NY, on a Saturday afternoon. On Westminster Avenue just north of Hempstead Turnpike, we witnessed the grand entrance of a bride into the Catholic church that occupies the whole block. She came out of a sliver Excalibur and ascended the steps of the church, with each segment of her walk punctuated by trumpet fanfares from heralds who flanked the grand main entrance to the building. The heralds, of course, wore attire evoking storybook medieval court valets. Standing there, observing the spectacle, my fiancée and I decided then and there that we wanted to experience the same pomp on our Special Day.

We came to our senses eventually. Rain precluded any outdoor portion of our wedding, and we ended up driving our own car on the way out of the catering hall. Sometimes we wistfully recall the scene we witnessed and wonder why we didn’t pursue that vision more assiduously, but the truth is, it was no big loss.  Seriously: what difference would it have made in the long run? Would it improve our relationship, or just remain an interesting anecdote to tell the kids?

Perhaps our attitude does not reflect mainstream thinking, but our efforts went into making the guests feel comfortable,  finding the right people to honor and stuffing as many gifts as possible into our 1993 Mercury Sable. Everything else, including the chocolate-frosted wedding cake (no, it wasn’t white; so what?), remained in the realm of details - important enough to warrant consideration at some point, but not worth worrying about very much.

So let’s keep perspective as we plan our happy events.

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