How cheap can a seal and send wedding invitation be? If you go to a local print shop and ask if they have some 110# scrap card stock, you may get it super cheap.
Sometimes print shops will give you scrap before it goes to the recycle bin.
Many times they only charge a few dollars for cutting it to your size.
If you want to have a cheap wedding invitation, try this.
Ask you local shop if they have scrap 5 1/2 inches wide.
Ask them if it is at least 14 inches long.
You can use six inches by fourteen.
If you want you can pretty much use any size.
I don't recommend less than five and one-half.
You need to be at least five inches for mailing reasons.
Now once you have your card stock cut to size, you are ready to print on it.
Determine the fold and perf areas.
Set it up so that you will not have type on the folds.
Print one out and make sure it will work well.
Then you can print the rest.
It really isn't that difficult to set up.
I have used Microsoft Works to do this.
It is a $30 program so you don't need expensive software.
Once you have set it up and know that it will work, you can print all the fronts.
After the fronts or insides are printed you are ready for the outside.
If you are going to address them on your printer you can set it up now or wait.
Print all the outsides.
If you didn't set up the addressing then do that or wait til you fold them to address by hand.
To make these fold easier you want to score them.
This just means putting a crease in them.
Before we make the fold lets get a perf on them.
A perf is a perforated line that will allow your quests to tear them smoothly.
They will mail the postcard back to you.
Go to a discount store or craft place.
You can even get these at a fabric store.
Buy a two dollar tracing wheel.
Make a cardboard dummy the size of your first folded piece.
Line it up on the edges to make sure you will get a straight perf.
This gives your seal and send wedding invitation a tear apart card.
Place the invite on a cutting board and run the tracing wheel on the edge of the cardboard dummy to make your perf.
Now make a new cardboard dummy for your second fold.
This will be done using a bone folder tool.
These are available at Walmart for four dollars.
You may find them at other craft stores too.
Then make another crease where the third fold will go.
You can follow the same steps.
Now fold it and add a seal.
If you have done all of this your biggest expense will be the ink.
I advise an Epson printer that uses water proof ink.
If you have done a basic invitation with some type and clip art you should be able to do 100 invites for less than twenty-five dollars.
With all the advantages of the print, seal and send wedding invitation, you should love them.
They are neat and affordable.