the Cost of Party Invitations

We had sixty invitations printed. The invitations were black printing only on card stock supplied by us. So, we only paid for the printing itself. They took our text from a word doc and formatted it for each invitation. Each invitation had three inserts of various sizes. So, overall there were four printed cards for each invitation. The envelopes were not printed. We wrote those ourselves.

The people at the shop were very friendly and quite competent, unlike workers you often find and big printing and copy chains. They were willing to talk with us about exactly what we wanted to make sure everything came out right - and it did. They took care of the printing in about a day. We dropped the cards off one morning and came back the following afternoon and they were done. Everything looked very professional. It looked as if we had paid someone to do our invitations for us.

To save some money, consider doing your invitations yourself - sort of. Write your own copy and purchase your own card stock from a paper supply store. Then, take your electronic text to a printer along with the card stock and have them just do the printing. You will avoid a lot of mark up this way and save yourself some serious cash.