Designing your own invites

EandD Posted: Dec 16, 2005 04:44 PM

Designing your own invites

I found a website that will do letterpress invites if you design them yourself.
Does anyone know if designing invites is difficult? Any favorite design programs? Any suggestions on where to get appropriate flower clip art to add?

Thanks!

NYCtoSEA Posted: Dec 16, 2005 04:52 PM

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I designed my own. I used powerpoint. I had mine printed at a shop - I would check with the vendor you want to use for suggestions. Some programs work better than others (and apparently powerpoint is one that does NOT translate well).

For pictures, I had seen a tip to use a font instead of clip art. fonts enlarge without getting pixelized and grainy. My invites have a snowflake, and I used a 'picture font' that I downloaded for free at dafont.com. I will use a large version of the snowflake on some of my diy stuff for the ceremony and reception.

dafont had lots of flower fonts if I remember correctly.

HTH!

ChrissynRicky Posted: Dec 16, 2005 04:58 PM

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I designed and printed my own invitations. I used MS Word.

EandD Posted: Dec 16, 2005 05:04 PM

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thanks! dafont has great ideas in the dingbats nature section!
And I will avoid powerpoint

belle22274 Posted: Dec 16, 2005 05:11 PM

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I designed and printed my own invites. If you want to have them commercially printed, you'll find that your best bet is to design them in Adobe Illustrator. If you don't have/know that program, if you save your work as a PDF, a printer will have a much easier time working with it.

Good luck!!!

EandD Posted: Dec 16, 2005 05:15 PM

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ooh your invitations are beautiful!

wematched Posted: Dec 16, 2005 05:17 PM

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Posted by EandD

I found a website that will do letterpress invites if you design them yourself.
Does anyone know if designing invites is difficult? Any favorite design programs? Any suggestions on where to get appropriate flower clip art to add?

Thanks!

What's the website that will do the letterpress with your design??

EandD Posted: Dec 16, 2005 05:23 PM

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http://www.mercuriobrothers.com

EandD Posted: Dec 16, 2005 05:25 PM

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I've been on an invitation hunt all month and fell in love with letterpress invitations by william arthur, but I'm not excited about spending so much money on invites. The prices at this site are amazing but I don't know anyone who has used them before.

wematched Posted: Dec 16, 2005 05:53 PM

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Thanks for the site!!

Have you looked at this one?

www.oblationpapers.com/wedding/

EandD Posted: Dec 16, 2005 06:12 PM

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I hadn't seen this site before. Thanks! I like the conifer invitation

wematched Posted: Dec 16, 2005 06:29 PM

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Posted by EandD

I hadn't seen this site before. Thanks! I like the conifer invitation

I love that one too!

Alilp Posted: Dec 16, 2005 06:36 PM

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Reaves Engraving

They are very generous with samples and are cheap.

STBH Posted: Dec 16, 2005 06:41 PM

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Posted by belle22274

I designed and printed my own invites. If you want to have them commercially printed, you'll find that your best bet is to design them in Adobe Illustrator. If you don't have/know that program, if you save your work as a PDF, a printer will have a much easier time working with it.

Good luck!!!

I loooove your invites!!!! Can you help a sister out with some templates??????
PLease??