How to Make Wedding Stationary
If you are having problems finding wedding invitations that you like, or if they don’t fit into y our budget, you can make them yourself. You can choose from a wide range of paper products to fit your budget, as well as keeping a more personalized touch.
- Decide on a theme for your wedding stationery. You have many choices to choose from, such as religious, flowers, modern, romantic or a whimsical theme.
- Pick out the images or clip art you plan on using on your wedding stationery. You can even use personalized photos of yourself and your fiancé. Decide on the font you want to use for the text on your stationery on the software you are going to use to make it.
- Choose the paper you will print out your stationery on. You can choose from card stock, wedding invitation paper or blank stationery.
- Sit down with your fiancé and decide on the wording on your stationery. Include the time, date and location of the wedding on the stationery.
- Prepare the stationery on the software program on the computer, and print out a copy on plain regular paper. Look over the stationery and make sure it looks okay to you and your fiancé. When you agree that it is finished, print it out on the paper you plan on using, such as card stock.
- Put a folding line on the stationery using a bone folder. Score a straight line in the center of the paper two times, and then fold the stationery.
- Decide on what type of insert cards you want to use. If you plan on designing them yourself as well, do it now.