DIY Wedding Invitations

The invitations to your wedding are very important. They should be one of the things that you do early on when planning your wedding because if you don’t send out invitations to invite people to the weeding then there’s nothing to plan for. Also, once you narrow down the invite list then you know how much of everything that you need and how many to plan your wedding for.

Some people get invitations made for them, some buy kits from crafts stores, and some go at it from scratch all on their own. All are very good options, but for those adventurous people out there, we are going to share with you how to make the invitations all on your own. I think it’s a good idea to find inspiration from wedding magazines, websites, and from invitations that you may have received. Kind of narrow down the style that you like and want to go with and that best represents you as a couple and your wedding. Colours are also an important thing. If you have the colour scheme of your wedding picked out early on then you can incorporate those colours, if not, you can go with neutral colours that will compliment any colours that you end up choosing later on.

We have a tutorial of Nicole’ invites. She went with purple and grey as the main colors because those are her wedding colours. So take a peek at what we have for you below and enjoy! 

First of all, gather up all of the necessary supplies. We are only showing you how to do one invitation of course, so you’ll need enough supplies for however many invitations that you are making.You can make the invitation any size that you'd like. We did roughly a half a page of cardstock for the main layer and then adjusted the other layers to what we thought looked good.

                        

We’ve chosen a purple card with a layer of dark grey that we have punched with a decorative top border and then layered the invitation words on top on a white cardstock layer.

Next we’ve a dark purple (which matches the bridesmaids dresses) ribbon is added near the bottom. The ribbon seen here is medium in thickness but you can go with whatever ribbon that matches your invitations.

Nicole is skilled at bow making so she’s made a flat bow that is glued together with the glue gun to nicely finish off the card. I believe that we have done a demo before in another one of our blog posts.

And there you have it! A beautiful and elegant homemade wedding invitation. So now you can gather up some friends or your wedding party, put on a movie or some music, and have a night of making homemade wedding invitations.

P.S. Don't forget to buy envelopes!