Add Photos to Printable Wedding Announcements for a Unique Look

The formal wedding announcement has been replaced in popularity with announcements that have a personal charm. Many couples are designing their own printable wedding announcements and including photos.

If you want to choose this look for your printable wedding announcement, where do you start? Here are some some places to begin.

Pro Digital Photos – Printable Wedding Announcements Online

If you’re looking for a printable wedding announcement that features your engagement or wedding photo, take a look at the options at ProDigitalPhotos.com.

Pro Digital Photos offers 24 variations of single-sided printable wedding announcements and according to their web site they also offer double-sided and folded-card-style printable wedding announcements, too. No examples of these types of printable wedding announcements were shown, however. Pro Digital Photos also offers to print a layout that you design.

One of the pros to using the Pro Digital Photos site is the ability to use more than one photo in your printable wedding announcement. Depending on the type of photo you use, Pro Digital Photo has a layout that creatively uses part of your photo as a background for the text on the wedding announcement (with the opacity lowered so the text can be read, of course).

One of the cons to this site is that the Pro Digital Photos site is a little difficult to navigate. For example, it took me a few minutes to figure out that you were required to set up an account and sign in before you could upload photos or order your printable wedding announcement. This site may also be difficult for someone who isn’t familiar with the mechanics of printing photos (resolutions, jpegs, etc.) Pro Digital Photos supplies the definitions and a help guide but you need to understand what you are doing.

However, if you’d like an printable wedding announcement that utilizes multiple photos – a trendy look – it might be worth the trouble to work your way through the ordering process. They promise to send you a proof in a couple of days so you can keep at it until you are satisfied.

Vista Print – Printable Wedding Announcements Online

VistaPrint.com is a company that I have done business with and recommend highly. I have used their services several times and have always been pleased with the service and quality. Their service is quick and the design you receive always looks like the design you gave them. They often run specials for large orders and have reasonable prices for smaller orders, too. They do offer printable photo wedding announcements.

You can use one of the VistaPrint designs for your printable photo wedding announcements or choose to upload one of your own designs. The VistaPrint site is very user friendly. If you don’t know the answer to something, it is very easy to find information to assist you.

Some of the cons to the VistaPrint site: the printable wedding announcement designs on VistaPrint are lumped into general wedding announcements; and there isn’t a lot of hand-holding as you make your decisions. On the other hand, at VistaPrint, you control what text will be placed on your card. Most of the VistaPrint designs have some text. However, if you like the design the text can be changed to suit the particular situation for your printable wedding announcement.

One of the pros to the VisitaPrint site is that it is easy to navigate. And, you should be able to see a proof of the printable wedding announcement that you designed online immediately and make changes to it until you are satisfied.

VistaPrint also offers online coupons and other discounts. Be sure to search for a discount coupon code on the web before finalizing your order for printable wedding announcements.

A Word About Online Printers

Almost any printer can produce a printable wedding announcement for you. However, be sure you don’t take chances. Go with an online printer that you feel comfortable with and be sure to read the fine print in the contract that states what your options are if you are unhappy with the service. Allow plenty of time for re-printing your wedding announcement or starting over with another printer if necessary.

Hire an Graphic Design Student to Design your Printable Wedding Announcement

For the most unique touch, hire an aspiring graphic design student to create your printable photo wedding announcement. Find out if your local university or community college has an art, graphic design, or web technology department. Post a notice outside the classroom and you might just find a fantastic student designer willing to create a printable photo wedding announcement for you in exchange for adding the design to their portfolio. Call a professor in the department with your request and you might even find that your printable photo wedding announcement can become a project for the entire class!

Whether you find a class to take on this project or a graphic design student, provide them with some guidelines and a project completion date. If you like a multi-photo invitation or want some original art to go along with one photo, provide samples to let them know what you like. If you have already selected a theme for your wedding, the student could incorporate it into your wedding announcement.

A pro of going this route is that your student designer should know how to navigate the questions of the online printer or local printer. Once you decide on your photo/design let the student designer complete the process of getting the wedding announcements printed for you. If it is a class project, and if you don’t need very many announcements, you supply the paper and perhaps the ink and the school may be willing to print the wedding announcements for you.

A con of going this route is it may end up being the priciest. Even though the student designer gets some work for their portfolio and a client reference from you, you may have to pay for printing and some compensation for the student’s design work, too. But it is a small price to pay for a unique and memorable printable photo wedding announcement.