Where to print custom wedding invitation?
I just got married three weeks ago. I was looking to do most of the stuff myself and not have a huge tab – basically graphic looking, relaxed, inexpensive but definitely not ‘cheap looking’ In January, I ordered my invites from here: http://www.weddingpaperdivas.com/ (I edited some stuff off them for web-ready page so might not be 100% centered – my fault – but: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/vicious_hordelicious/wed_invite.jpg) I think it came out to about $350 or so for 75 invites, RSVP notes and thank you notes… I received them in two weeks and they came out amazing – just what I wanted! Unique, graphic, slightly quirky and definitely NOT looking like they were “home printed,” which was my main problem with Etsy sellers (besides being twice the price without including thank you notes). I can’t tell you how many compliments I’ve receiv
We went with a combination of printers, since we wanted to do limited letterpress and then standard printing for the rest. For the letterpress, we went with Evolution Press in Ballard, and I think they just wanted the PDFs of the files. For the invitation printing, we worked with Zebra Printing in Bellevue, and they initially wanted PDF files, but I there was some compatibility issue with the way they were output in PDF, so we wound up providing Adobe Illustrator .AI files and the font files for them to work with. It also helped that we knew what Pantone colors we wanted, so the color matching issue wasn’t a problem. Having a photo might complicate things and will probably move you away from offset printing, but the owner of Zebra was pretty helpful for us (his workers, not so much helpful) in making sure we got everything right.
