The advent of technology, especially Information Technology (IT) has been responsible for the mushrooming of many small-time businesses, particularly ventures related to stationery and printing.
Hence, card-printing shops you find at almost every corner of the city offering services like business calling cards, personalized greeting cards, personalized invitation cards and etc. Those with an entrepreneurial mind will try and come up with an idea to earn from technology.
So if by chance your wedding is coming up, why not opt to get your wedding invitation cards at one of these many enterprises. Such set-ups may not even be in shops. Ask around and you may find a friend who knows of someone who does this sort of businesses. Try Google for such services too and you may end up with many to choose from.
The good side of shopping from such enterprises is that the services come very cheaply. So if you already have a design in mind and you can get them to do it for you, you will end up with very cheap wedding invitations. Of course, such things take time so if you have many months to plan, this is among the best methods of getting good and cheap wedding invitations made for you.
The trick is to shop around, as in truly shop around. Ask people about it, search in the Internet, and seek recommendations from people. You really have to make the time and effort here so that you will end up with the cheapest of prices. And then bargain. If you happen to like one or two of the establishment that offer such services, bargain for the cheapest price you can get.
Pay attention, however, to the quality of paper being used, and the ink preferred by these shops. Always try and insist on top grade items. The bargaining you do would be on the services these shops offer.
Another option to getting very cheap wedding invitations is to make them yourself. Besides giving the invitation a personal touch (because you make them yourself), the sky is the limit when it comes to creativity of the cards.
A famous politician in England some time back, whose daughter was getting married, had of course engaged a wedding planner to organize the wedding. However, he had given his wife the task of making her the wedding invitations herself just so that she can claim she was personally involved in the preparation of the event. In the end, the politician’s wife ended up producing fantastic-looking invitations at very cheap costs. Both she and her husband were happily surprised by this.
You see, the politician and his wife had many friends and associates to invite. The number of guests went up into the hundreds and given their social status, they needed to extend impressive-looking invitations to their friends for their daughter’s equally impressive wedding party. By buying the quality paper stock and other embellishment in bulk, she was able to acquire the necessary items for making invitations to about a quarter of the market price.
What she did was to purchase quality paper in bulk. She bought crème-colored card paper and some transparent ones too. Also in the shopping cart were glue, white doilies, rhinestones, and golden ribbons. She cut the doilies into little pieces to make various patterns and paste them on the card paper that was used as the cover. A simple “Wedding Invitation’ on the cover and some sprinkling of the rhinestones resulted in the invitation card looking very expensive.
Next she printed the body text using fancy script font on the transparent paper which she used for the inlay. To secure the inlay she made holes in the middle and tied the inlay onto the card paper using the gold ribbon. Not only did she end up with a beautiful wedding invitation for her daughter’s wedding, the invitation became the talk of the town because it was one of the most unique her privileged circle of friends had ever received.
Lastly, you cannot beat viral invitation when it comes to price. Invite through text messaging system, or word of mouth. It cost next to nothing. The method is very effective and economical. How do you think telecommunications companies make millions from various promotions?
The only setback making this type of invitation is that you have to make sure to reach only those you want to invite.
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