Blank Wedding Invitations

Online Options for Announcing Your Special Day

Once the realm of the phenomenally artsy or excruciatingly thrifty, more people are producing wedding invitations at home by these days. Thanks to the proliferance of personal home computers, the crispness of laser printing and the help of several paper outlets, it is possible to print your own wedding invitations that will not only look tasteful, but also will be unique and also save the couple-to-be a lot of money.

The beauty of printing your own invitations, besides the savings, is that the couple can use their own designs, fonts and sayings to convey their intent for their special day.

Even discount office suppliers are getting into the act of retailing blank wedding invitations. On a recent trip to Staples, I found pre-perforated cards on 38-pound stock with beautiful designs of bells and ivy embossed on the border. A pack of sixteen envelopes and invitations was only $5.99. Staples also sells pearlized papers, vellum and parchment. While some of these items are listed in their web site (www.staples.com), you may find a better selection at your local Staples store.

In my mind, the godfather of all paper products has to be PaperDirect®. Based in Colorado Springs, PaperDirect® not only sells a mountain of business related paper products (such as pre-printed letterhead, envelopes, business cards and awards), it also has quite an impressive blank wedding invitations selection. All that is necessary is to run them through your printer, using standard Word formats. They also provide software (PaperTemplates^TM) for some of the more intricate invitations. These templates provide preset margins, tabs, text boxes and borders, which make designing your invitation a no-brainer.

In addition to the casual invitation, some of the different kinds of invitations available through PaperDirect® include:

Square Invitations
Tea Length Invitations
Embossed and Foil Invitations
Pocket Invitations
Cachet Invitations
Layered Invitations