DIY Invitations

Any couple who has done their initial wedding preps will know that invitations, even the simplest ones, will not be THAT cheap. We decided to look around and ask the more well-known printers and, to Dodie's surprise, a simple flat invitation (sans the enclosures) with some gold stamping would go for at least P70 for 100 pieces.

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How I wish I could have been content with just flat cards. Then our lives would have been less complicated. But I couldn't.


Initially, I wanted a photobook. You know, the one that looks like those glossy coffeetable books? That kind of a photobook. And although I found a publisher that does bulk orders for a fraction of its retail cost, that fraction still wasn't within our budget. At P200 per invitation, the practical me was already screaming in protest.




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I know that invitations are important because they give guests a sneak peek into the wedding and sometimes, the personalities of the couple as well. And while I have nothing against flat cards, they just weren't me. You see, I've always been a DIY kind of a gal. I give handmade gifts to close friends for Christmas and birthdays, and once even gave framed cross-stitched initials for my friends during our college graduation. There's just a great sense of fulfillment that I get when I create something uniquely mine. And so I had the idea of DIY-ing our invitations instead - partly because of the cost, and partly (ok, a great part) because as an OC bride, I knew the printers would have a very hard time pleasing me.

The idea met with some resistance from Dodie, mostly because he was concerned if we would be able to pull off designing, cutting, and printing 100 invitations. While I shared his concern, I calmly reasoned that we still had a year to prepare. And that if we weren't done by June, we'd go to plan B. (Of course, it helped that I had already prepared a mock up of the design I had conceptualized after endless hours of searching the internet.)

A couple of weeks ago, we braved the small streets of Divisoria for raw materials and embarked on our most adventurous DIY to date.