Sure, cheap and classy usually don’t go together, but when it comes to affordable wedding invitations, you can pull it off.  Whatever you’ve budgeted for your invites, there’s no reason to spend more than you need to.  Consider what you’re doing: You’re letting your friends and family know that you are getting married!  But here’s the thing…once your wedding is over and all those wonderful memories are stored in the hearts and minds of all your wedding guests, the LAST thing they will reflect on is your wedding invites!  So if you’re feeling guilty about cutting corners here…just don’t.  THIS is the first place to save and the FIRST place you should save money  The following suggestions will help you shave and save even more off of not only your wedding invitations, but your entire wedding.

Invitation In A Bottle™ – Wedding Invitations Your Guests Will Never Forget. 

“I don’t want a wedding invite…”

Is Your Guest List Ridiculous?

When you make your guest list, don’t be silly and mail one to Tom Cruise and the president.  Also, if you have family from out of state that you know won’t be able to attend, there’s no need to send them an invitation to an event they can’t even come to (and it will remove a little guilt off of their heads, too).  Try cutting out other guests that you aren’t close with and let them know it’s mostly for family.  You’ll end up mailing fewer invites and having a smaller number of mouths to feed.  You save all around this way.

Also, postage can be pricey so get the exact weight of your invite and put the exact postage on there.  Stay away form all the extra fluff that goes along (a tiny map they can’t read anyway, rsvp card and envelope–go postcard, etc.). When designing your wedding invitations, watch out for overindulging add-ons.  I’m talking about gilt lettering, raised lettering, embossing and engraving, all the fancy terms meant to take away from your wedding budget.  If your card stock is of higher quality, so will the printing be.

Stick with ink that comes close to your wedding colors and find a font that has an air of class.

Affordable wedding invites are easier to buy nowadays thanks to the web!  Hit up as many sites as you can and find your favorite unique affordable wedding invitations, regardless of price.  That’s right, you heard me.  Don’t worry about how much they cost, because once you find what you want, you can email the other sales departments to see if they will give you the same for lower.  If you’re shopping for a particular style, like affordable beach wedding invitations, you’ll be able to narrow your search and have quicker success.  You can still take the beach wedding invitations that you adore and shop them through other sites.  Work it, baby, work it!

Finally, it is the digital age. Have you thought about digital wedding invitations instead?  Can you imagine spending your invitations budget on a fully working website where people can rsvp?  If it isn’t in vogue now, it will soon be.  Why not be a trendsetter and be one of the first to go all digital with your wedding invitations?

An affordable wedding invitation doesn’t have to look or feel cheap.  By reducing your guest count, sending invitations to those that will most likely come, and leaving out the extra unneeded paperwork to reduce weight are ways to save.  Take full advantage of all the wedding websites that provide wedding invitations and services and get them bidding against each other for your business. I forgot to mention all the do-it-yourself brides that have done just that: made their own or enlisted a friend to help and got there affordable wedding invitations that way!