Printable Wedding Invitations

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In today's economy, DIY wedding invitations are a cost effective, creative, and fun option. Almost everyone has used a word processing program and has printed documents at home, and once you've read LCI Paper's Printing Your Own Invitations guide, you'll find that you have the tools, information, and resources you need to print your own wedding invitations! Let's walk through the steps from start to finish.

Choose Your Wedding Invitations

Many of our customers tell us they enjoy browsing through our wedding invitations, looking at the different styles, and getting a better understanding of their options. We offer everything from traditional Calla Lily invitations to unique invitation ideas like Pocket Fold kits and Tuxedo kits. We invite you to spend time clicking through the different categories as you find those special invitation designs that "click" with you!

Order Samples

Without seeing invitations in person and getting a feel for their quality, it's hard to have confidence in ordering online. That's why all of our invitations can be purchased as single samples. You can see the colors of the cards and the designs in person instead of on your computer monitor. This also gives you the opportunity to test print at home. On any particular product page, order a sample by clicking the "Order Samples" link or tab as shown below:

Download Printing Template

Microsoft Word printing templates are formatted for particular items and are available for download on each product page. Look for the "Print Template" download link as shown below:

More templates are being added daily, but if a template download link does not appear on a certain product page, request it by clicking the “Ask us a question” link. We’ll be happy to create the template and make it available. Our printing templates come with support files to walk you through the invitation printing process.

To learn more, watch our video on how to download and use printing templates.

Customize Your Invitation Layout

Open the invitation template in Word and you will see sample invitation wording and a layout that you can alter for your specific event. Change the text to that of your event, making sure the names, dates, locations, and other important details are correct. Now you can be creative and change the font and font sizes. The screen shot to the right shows a casual looking font called Angelina. We think it makes an invitation look more fun and less formal. Consider your event and the mood you want to convey in your invitation, then choose a font that will help you portray it. Arrange the wording on your screen to reflect exactly how you'd like to see it printed on your invitation card. When you are finished with your invitation wording and you're happy with the layout, you are ready to set up the printer.

Printing Your Invitations

This free PDF document covers the following DIY printing topics:

(1) Opening the Printing Template, Verifying the Dimensions, & Creating Your Custom Wording

(2) Inserting the Invitation Into Your Printer

(3) Accessing Your Print Driver & Entering a Custom Size

Click to download: You CAN Print Your Own Invitations Using Your Computer & Printer! Follow the instructions in this PDF file and you'll be able to print any custom sized invitation that your printer can handle!

Addressing Your Envelopes

If you're unsure of how to address your wedding envelopes, read Addressing Your Wedding Invitation Envelopes: Traditional Guidelines and Helpful Tips.

Assembling Your Invitations

Finally, you can gather friends and family to help assemble your personalized wedding invitations. This is often a joyous time filled with special memories you'll never forget.

(1) Tuck response card under response envelope flap:	(2) Place response card & envelope in front of invitation:
(3) Place invitation card, response card,and response envelope inside inner envelope:	(4) Insert inner envelope into outer envelope with flap facing behind:

If you have printed your own wedding invitations, let us know about your experience

In today's economic climate, it's helpful to be able to save some money here and there. Why not do so by printing your own invitations to your wedding or social event? Printing invitations at home is a cost-effective and completely viable alternative to sending your invitations away to a professional printer.

I asked our Vice President, Barry Levine, to weigh in with his thoughts on the subject. Barry has years of experience working in the wedding industry with professional printers as well as with individuals doing their own printing.

What Are Some Of The Benefits Of Printing Your Own Invitations At Home?

Number one, you have the freedom of personal creativity -- you're basically doing it at your own leisure. You're getting others involved: family members, friends, relatives. The bottom line is that it is also a cost-savings measure in my mind. For years I worked for a major social thermography invitation printer and know what professional printed invitations are. I can say from firsthand experience that it is much more costly to order professionally printed invitations vs. taking on the task of printing your own invitations at home. The cost to print your own invitations is really personal time and whatever consumables might use on their printers

Is Anyone Capable Of Printing At Home?

Do I think that it's an easy task? I feel quite strongly that it is and if we didn't, we probably wouldn't be in this business. I've consulted with many people on the phone and guided them through the process of setting up a custom document, how to feed the paper through finally printing the final piece. More often than not they are simply amazed at the quality and simplicity of doing this at home.

Do You Need Special Equipment, Training Or Software?

As far as special needed equipment goes, nothing really. The basics would be a computer, quality printer, and the ability to work with a word processing or design application. Microsoft Word seems to be one of the most common applications used, and if someone is versed in using Microsoft Word, they will be able of set up a custom sized document for home printing.

LCI Is Here To Assist In The Printing Process

One of the nice things about LCI is that not only are we here to sell wedding invitation paper for people to print on their own, but we're here to assist them on how to go about doing it. We do that in the form of resource content that we put on our website & blog such as how-to printing videos, or free downloadable print templates etc. Additionally, our in house staff and designers have experience creating custom invitation ensembles and printing on those invitations. They are here to help those who call and are interested in doing it on their own.

Any Suggestions For First Time People Considering Printing Their Invitations At Home?

Take your time to format and layout your invitation by making good choices for type styles and type sizes. Oftentimes the selection of font and layout can really make all the difference in the world. It's a good idea to have other people proofread your work. Ask them for their comments on design, have them check for spelling and punctuation. And finally, before the actual printing takes place, I typically suggest people print test samples first by cutting cheap paper to the size of the invitation, and use that for setup purposes. Look at the printed test samples to make sure that the formatting comes out printed the way you want. When you're finally happy with the sample results, and how it's printed, and the color of ink choice, then you're ready to use your quality invitation paper.

What Common Concerns Do Customers Have In The Home Printing Process?

When printing their own invitations I would say one of the biggest concerns is, will the cards print on my printer? That particular concern is a tough question for us to answer, because we can only give first-hand knowledge based on the experience that we've had with the printers we tested. We have tested a handful of home printers sold in today's market, but there are too many out there to test them all. On our website, we indicate whether a particular stock or envelope is suitable for laser printing or inkjet printing, or neither in some cases. In most cases however the paper will be suitable for one or the other. There are some invitation papers we sell that are quite heavy, textured or coated that we do not recommend printing on them using home printers. Such papers are geared toward offset presses, letterpress or other conventional printing techniques. Do not discount the use of these papers when making your invitations because many are beautiful complimentary papers used for invitation layers, backer cards or accents. Since we don't always know why someone is purchasing a particular paper stock, we try and help them along the way by giving them as much useful information as possible about printability and design ideas

Just Do It Yourself!

With the benefits of home printing, you can take full credit for the beautiful invitations you make yourself. So save yourself some money and the stress of professional printing, and print your own invitations at home!