Many modern and technology savvy brides and grooms desire a wedding invitation that reflects their own individual sense of style. Blank wedding invitations provide a perfect alternative for a couple that wants to customize the message of their invitation. Blank wedding invitations are also a great way to design an invitation with that extra added personal touch that might be found in a couple’s favorite photo, saying, quotation, or sentimental joke that is important and special just to the couple.
Blank wedding invitations are easy to make and are very affordable. With a little time and some shopping around, a bride and groom are likely to find exactly the supplies they need a lot closer than they may have realized. Couples considering the do-it-yourself invitation route can find the supplies they need at any one of the following retailers. Below, the items you can find at Wal-Mart, Target, Michael’s, A.C. Moore, Office Max, Staples, Hallmark, and LCI Paper are discussed and compared.
Wal-Mart
Blank wedding invitations can be ordered online at Wal-Mart and can also generally be found in the craft aisles of the Wal-Mart stores. In-stock online orders ship within 24 hours, and for a couple planning either a shotgun wedding or a quick elopement, Wal-Mart could very easily come to your rescue.
Wal-Mart offers about a half dozen different styles of blank wedding invitations, and most of them are all sold in a nifty invitation set. The sets include 50 invitations and are incredibly reasonable at a little more than a dollar per invitation. The blank wedding invitation kits are nice because the supplies can serve a variety of different purposes as the kits include 50 invites with response cards and envelopes, 50 thank you cards, envelopes, favor boxes, seals, and other cards and envelopes.
The blank wedding invitations are available in white or ivory with vellum overlays, with pearl borders, and there is also a cute bridal shower wedding cake style invitation. Wal-mart’s blank weddings invitations are Gsquared products and there are easy to follow and use templates to help the bride and groom at Gsquared’s website.
Target
For brides and grooms planning a Valentine’s Day, Christmas, or Winter Holiday wedding, Target offers a splendid crimson and white blank wedding invitation. The wedding invitations come with coordinating envelopes that are also lined in crimson. These invitations would look stunning with elegant hand-written calligraphy or they can also be run through a printer. Target also carries matching note cards and place cards that can be purchased separately. This same style is available in the color midnight too.
For spring or summer weddings, Target offers shimmering blank wedding invitations in aquamarine, sugar plum, or tickled pink. These styles are similar in color to the blank wedding invitations offered at other venues such as Rexcraft and at a comparable price.
The cost of Target invitations is about a dollar each, however only the invitation and matching envelope is included. Other supplies need to be purchased separately. If ordered online, Target ships in 3 to 5 business days.
Michael’s
Michael’s is really a great place to consider various different types of blank wedding invitations as they offer nearly three dozen styles that range from traditional, decorative, vellum overlays, save the date cards, and various other designs. Michael’s has some options that are just the blank wedding invitations and the matching envelopes, while also carries other options that offer the entire invitation kit, similar to Wal-Mart.
Michael’s also offers some choices of blank wedding invitations that are acid and lignin free which are longer lasting for keepsake purposes. Invitations come with easy instructions and sample wording to help get you started.
A.C. Moore
For the bride and groom looking for just a simple plain white or ivory card, A.C. Moore offers a few different blank invitations in several different sizes. The blank invitations are sold in sets of either 6 or 10, depending on the size of the card, and they cost less than sixty-five cents each. A simple blank wedding invitation card can be a wonderful way to customize to your heart’s content and really bring out the creativity of both the bride and groom.
Office Max
For a couple who wants to incorporate a special photo, Office Max offers a Great Papers! Treasure Masters blank wedding invitation kit. The kit includes everything you need to make 50 invitations, envelopes, response cards and envelopes on your own inkjet or laserjet printer for under $30.
Staples
Staples offers a classic and simple white invitation with matching envelope in a case of 100 for about $20. This is quite simply, about as simple as it gets. The simplest price for the simplest invitation. Though Staples offers really nice gold or silver streamers blank invitations that would be great for twenty-fifth of fiftieth wedding anniversaries, Staples classic simple white invitation may look a bit too simple for even a simple bride.
Hallmark
If wedding bells is your thing, than Hallmark offers a cute printable wedding bells overlay card with matching envelope. This blank wedding invitation is an adorable square shape and comes in a set of 10 for only $1.50 a card. Additionally, if you’re a Gold Crown Member you’ll earn crown rewards points on your purchase.
For less formal occasions, Hallmark offers some very nice fill-in-the blank cards for bridal showers, parties, and other causes for celebration.
LCI Paper
LCI Paper offers a great Picture Perfect blank wedding invitation kit. Simple white card stock is perfect for a black and white photograph of the two of you, and the Picture Perfect kit comes with 50 soft silver chiffon bows and matching white envelopes. Create 50 wedding invitations with a custom elegant look with any home laser or inkjet printer. Supplies for 50 blank wedding invitations and envelopes are included at a steal for under $38.
Whatever your sense of wedding style, transforming a blank wedding invitation into something very personal and uniquely your own can be a very rewarding task. These retailers offer a starting place when shopping for blank wedding invitations.
Now when trying to find an invitation, you don’t have to draw a blank. You only have to decide what to write on it!
