Getting Your Printer Ready and Choosing the Right Paper Okay so first thing you gotta do is figure out if your home printer can actually handle this because not all printers are created equal and I learned this the hard way in spring 2023 when a bride called me panicking because her save the dates […]
Getting Your Materials Together First So the biggest mistake I see people make is jumping straight into designing without actually touching the paper first. Like in spring 2023 I had this couple who ordered all these supplies online and when everything arrived the cardstock was completely wrong for what they wanted to do with stamps […]
The Tools You Actually Need to Make Your Own Invitations So Canva is gonna be your best friend here and honestly I fought this for SO long because I thought “real” designers don’t use it but then during this nightmare wedding season in summer 2021 when literally everything was backed up and printers were quoting […]
Getting Your Materials Together First Okay so the biggest mistake I see people make is just diving in without having everything on hand and then you’re halfway through cutting cardstock and realize you don’t have the right adhesive and everything gets messy. I learned this the hard way back in spring 2023 when a bride […]
Okay so here’s the deal with printing your own wedding invitations at home First thing you need to know is that yes you can totally do this but it’s gonna take more time than you think. Like way more. I had this bride in spring 2023 who was absolutely convinced she could print 150 invitations […]
Getting Your Printer Situation Sorted First Okay so the biggest mistake I see people make is thinking their regular old printer from 2015 is gonna handle cardstock like a champ. It won’t. I learned this the hard way back in spring 2023 when a bride called me literally crying because she’d just jammed her $200 […]
Okay So You Wanna Make Your Own Invitations First thing you need to figure out is what software you’re gonna use because this literally determines everything else. I had this bride back in spring 2023 who started designing in Microsoft Word and then tried to switch to Canva halfway through and it was a complete […]
Okay So You Wanna Make Your Own Wedding Invitations First thing you need to know is that DIY invitations are totally doable but they’re gonna take more time than you think. Like, way more. I had this couple in spring 2023 who decided three months before their wedding that they wanted to hand-letter 150 invitations […]
So You Want to Make Your Own Wedding Invitations Okay so the first thing you need to know is that DIY invitations can save you a TON of money but they also take way more time than you think. Like in spring 2023 I had this couple who decided two months before their wedding that […]
So You Need Wedding Card Printing Prices Okay so wedding invitation printing costs are all over the place and honestly it drove me nuts back in spring 2023 when I had three couples asking me why quotes were so different for basically the same thing. The short answer is there’s like a million factors but […]