so i did a little invitation shopping today.....

i went to this shop by my job. The woman told me that i would need 125 invitations, and that it will probably cost me between $1000-$1200 i told her she was nuts and i left. i couldn't believe it. then i called this place where i know someone, she told me there was absolutely no need to pay that much and that she would give me a discount. i couldn't believe that. $1200 for paper with a time and a date on it. i was floored!

thanks for the mini vent

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Posted by kristi313

i went to this shop by my job. The woman told me that i would need 125 invitations, and that it will probably cost me between $1000-$1200 i told her she was nuts and i left. i couldn't believe it. then i called this place where i know someone, she told me there was absolutely no need to pay that much and that she would give me a discount. i couldn't believe that. $1200 for paper with a time and a date on it. i was floored!

thanks for the mini vent

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i havent started shopping for those yet...and boy ill die if those are the prices.

lol my invitations were about $1800

and i almost did die when she told me

eta: when she added up everything from the Elite Invitations book it came out to $3500!! so I felt like I got a discount!

my budget is $1000. I'm hoping to stay within that.

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Posted by kristi313

there is absolutely NO WAY i'm paying that much for invitations if this place where i know the lady helps me out i'll be good otherwise i'll be doing them online.

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hope you have better luck than me!! those were the only ones i liked - LOL i am in love with them

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Posted by ant n tilde

lol my invitations were about $1800

and i almost did die when she told me

eta: when she added up everything from the Elite Invitations book it came out to $3500!! so I felt like I got a discount!

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are you serious?!?!?!?! you paid $1800??? wow
how many invitations did you need?

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Posted by kristi313

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Posted by ant n tilde

lol my invitations were about $1800

and i almost did die when she told me

eta: when she added up everything from the Elite Invitations book it came out to $3500!! so I felt like I got a discount!

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are you serious?!?!?!?! you paid $1800??? wow
how many invitations did you need?

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125
that includes the place cards and envelope addressing

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Posted by ant n tilde

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Posted by kristi313

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Posted by ant n tilde

lol my invitations were about $1800

and i almost did die when she told me

eta: when she added up everything from the Elite Invitations book it came out to $3500!! so I felt like I got a discount!

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are you serious?!?!?!?! you paid $1800??? wow
how many invitations did you need?

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125
that includes the place cards and envelope addressing

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ok so that's the same amount i need. i'll spend the money on them if i'm absolutely in love with them and there's nothing else out there and i can't stop thinking about them. but i'm going to have to want to die for these invitations to pay that much for them, which i'm afraid is probably not totally out of the question. so i guess i'll up my invitation budget to at least $1000. lol

its surprising how much invites can run!

like ant n tilde i had Elite Weddings invites--and the regular price for 100 was about $1800!!!!!

i got them for much less than that, but we still paid close to $1K for them cause we couldn't find anything that we liked as much. i mean i know it gets thrown out--but we wanted the invite to be something we loved

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Posted by kristi313

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Posted by ant n tilde

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Posted by kristi313

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Posted by ant n tilde

lol my invitations were about $1800

and i almost did die when she told me

eta: when she added up everything from the Elite Invitations book it came out to $3500!! so I felt like I got a discount!

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are you serious?!?!?!?! you paid $1800??? wow
how many invitations did you need?

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125
that includes the place cards and envelope addressing

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ok so that's the same amount i need. i'll spend the money on them if i'm absolutely in love with them and there's nothing else out there and i can't stop thinking about them. but i'm going to have to want to die for these invitations to pay that much for them, which i'm afraid is probably not totally out of the question. so i guess i'll up my invitation budget to at least $1000. lol

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yeah all of the prices are in the book so i saw that she was giving me a discount. . . still totally more than what i wanted to spend

i ordered about 10 samples from online THEN i looked through about 20 books and I was almost in tears bc those were the only ones i liked.

i guess everyone has a splurge item ( i.e. dress/shoes etc) and i didnt have one yet so i picked a stupid one LOL and i am also very lucky bc my mom didn't like any other ones either so she offered to pay for the invitations - a great surprise!

Good Luck!!

I think you can get very nice invitations for under $500 ... I saw some very nice ones in a catalog the other day for like $300, everything you need. I am going very simple - I do not like the embossed flowers, or folded invites that have the tiered papers (forget what they are called) - JMO. So, if you really do not want to spend $1000, I really not think you have to.

I have a few printers in the family if you want a reference ... just FM me. They will be glad to get the business I am sure. :)

Mine are an ensemble invite and they are regularly like 240 per 100 and the website gives you a 40% discount
its Carlson craft and rexcraft I think