When you purchase DIY Tuxedo Wedding Invitations from LCI Paper, you'll receive invitations and double lined envelopes. The invitations arrive scored and flat, ready to be printed and folded.
Setting Up Your Custom Invitation Wording
To personalize your invitations, you can start with LCI's free template for Microsoft Word. It is available in two styles--with names on the front flaps or without. Right click on the following links to download the templates to your computer.
For this example, I used the "Invitation With Names on Flaps" file and changed the fonts to my liking. As the tuxedo is traditionally a formal garment, I wanted my tuxedo invitation to use formal fonts. I used a different font for the names on the flaps than I used for the center panel.
You can customize your template to the invitation look that you envision. Don't forget to save the edited template file so that you can come back to it later.
Printer Setup
Within Word, if you check File/Page Setup, you'll see that the template is set up with a width of 14.5 and a height of 7.75. That is the size of the unfolded invitation. You'll also see that the orientation is set up in Landscape mode as opposed to Portrait. We will use similar settings in the print driver which is the software that controls the printer. Access your printer's particular driver within Word by clicking File/Print, then select your printer and click the Properties button. Since print drivers differ by printer make and model, your print driver may look different. Just poke around and find the specific settings described below.
We need to change two settings in the print driver. First, the paper size. Choose "Custom" or "User Defined"--whatever the case might be in your print driver.
Since we will be feeding the invitation vertically into the printer, enter 14.5 as the height and 7.75 as the width.
Second, since we want to print our invitation wording horizontally, set the orientation mode to Landscape.
That's all! You are set to print your custom invitation wording on the Tuxedo invitations. We recommend that you feed each invitation one at a time into your printer so that your printer doesn't grab more than one as it's feeding the invitations.
Folding and Embellishing
All that's left is to fold your printed invitation.
Perhaps you'd like to embellish your Tuxedo invitation with a Black Chiffon Ribbon. Plan for one yard of ribbon for each invitation. Our 7/8" Chiffon Ribbon is sold in 100 yard rolls.
