How to Save Money on Your Wedding Stationery

StationeryPlanning

6 Jun

Wedding stationery is a key part of how you set the tone and general styling of your wedding day, but it can quickly get out of control in terms of price. For this reason, it’s important to know how much the style you’d like will cost you and if you can make compromises to make it happen. A lot of hard work and love goes into making stationery, so the price is usually justifiable, it’s just whether your budget can extend to exactly what it is that you want.

With this in mind, this is where some adjustments can be made, so that you can have the style you’d like whilst still being affordable for you.

To help getting you thinking about ways you can potentially cut down the costs, we’ve listed below some suggestions that we feel will help significantly.

Create a wedding website

One way to really reduce the amount that you’re spending on wedding stationery and also the amount of paper you’re sending out is by having a wedding website. This means that rather than sending out a wedding invitation ‘bundle’ that has all the information in it, you can simply send out a beautiful 1 or 2 sided invitation that shares the link to your website. On the website they’ll find further details about your wedding, gift list information and the opportunity to RSVP. Another plus is that by making the invitation pack smaller, you might find that the postage will be reduced too, from a large letter stamp to a regular one for example.

Collect your RSVPs online

As mentioned above, another way to reduce the costs is to have your guests RSVP via your wedding website. It means that you won’t need to print an additional RSVP card to include within the invitation pack or pre stamp the envelope they’ll be sending it back in too.

Buy through the same company

Another way to reduce costs is to buy all your stationery through one company. Not only will this mean that it’ll all match, but they’ll often be able to offer deals and be able to stick to the overall stationery budget that you’ve provided them with. It also means that it’ll be cheaper for them to post everything to you, rather than having to pay postage for a handful of individual companies.

Avoid hand-drawn calligraphy everything

Whilst we all love the beauty of modern calligraphy, if you’re wanting to stick to a budget it’s best to avoid having lots of individual items hand-drawn such as invitations and envelopes. Pick the items that are most important to you to be hand-drawn per person and then have the rest hand-drawn once and digitalised for print. Additionally, you could just have certain elements hand-drawn, such as the ‘please take a seat’ text on your table plan and then the rest could be a simple font for example.

Try and give invites to people in person

If you live fairly local to some of your guests or see them quite often, one good way to save money on postage is to deliver them by hand. This could either be as and when you see them, or you could just dedicate a bit of time to driving round and dropping them in their letterbox. If you have a close relative that lives near lots of family, another idea would be to post in bulk to them and ask nicely if they’ll be able to hand them out too!

Choose printable designs on Etsy

Many Etsy shops now offer you the chance to buy an invitation PDF for a fairly minimal fee that they can then personalise with your details. Once you’ve got your final design, you can go about getting them printed wherever you like, which is another way to save costs. Plus not only do they offer invitation design, they can also provide you with other items to match, such as table plans, menus, table numbers and welcome signs so you can fully customise and style your day without it costing the earth.

Order more invitations

Perhaps a counterintuitive way to save money, but you’ll always want to order slightly over the number of invitations you need just in case you make any mistakes. Often when it comes to printing, the difference between 100 -130 invites for example can be really minimal, and will be much cheaper than you having to reorder a small batch again.

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