Wedding invitations are an important part of your special day. Its the first time your guests have contact with a component of your wedding and will use this to set their expectations of your event.

There are many decisions to be made when selecting your wedding invitations, such as what color's you will use for your invitation, how you will portray the theme of your wedding in your invitation and what wording you will use on your invitiations.

It is quite common nowadays to make their own wedding invitations as buying invitations to order can be quite expensive. If you are planning on making your own wedding invitations you will need to consider the paper and the prining as many metallic papers require the use of laser printers. Laser printers are quite cheap and can be puchased from most good electrical / computer retailers. You will also need to consider ribbon colours / embellishments / envelopes and acceptance cards.

For the purple butterfly wedding invitation shown the following materials were used:

Spicers 250gsm Metallic Ice Paper
Purple butterfly embellishment
6mm Purple Satin Ribbon (Double Sided)
Laser Printer
Microsoft Publisher
Glue Gun
Metal Ruler
Stanley Knife

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