High school graduation is a special time for both graduates and family members. As parents, seeing your child graduate from high school is a great accomplishment in which your love, guidance and efforts were vital. It’s only natural that you’d want to send an announcement to everyone you know (or at least to close friends and family members). Here is a comprehensive list of places, both on and offline, to find cheap or free high school graduation announcements.
Staples
There is a Staples location in almost every area of the United States. If you don’t have one near you, you can go to www.staples.com. Staples sells graduation themed printing paper in several designs. The price is $3.99 for a pack of 25 sheets. The most unique choice here is the paper with a black and gray argyle border with a graduation cap on top.
Vistaprint.com
A well known discount business card and stationery website is Vistaprint (www.vistaprint.com). This site has thirty different choices of personalized graduation announcements. The lowest price is $7.99 for 10 cards. What’s nice about this option is that you can have the cards printed with your choice of verses and fonts. White envelopes are free with your order. You can also choose envelopes that match the announcement’s theme and colors for $3.99 extra (for a quantity of 10).
PartyCity
Party City is a national chain of party goods stores. They also have a website you can use for ordering (www.partycity.com). This store is a great source for your high school graduation announcements and other graduation party necessities. Here, you can purchase a 25 pack of printable laser paper with a graduation theme for only $3.49. A fun choice is the paper with a black border and colored streamers, stars and graduation caps. Matching envelopes with a cap and scroll on the bottom left hand corner are $3.99 for 25.
All parents know about the wholesale party goods company called Oriental Trading (www.orientaltrading.com). The prices here are low and there is usually a promotion for free shipping if your order is over $60. Here you can buy a pack of 16 announcements for $7.95. The announcements come in sheets that measure 8½ by 11 (there are 2 invitations per sheet, 8 sheets per unit and 16 envelopes). These are blank but the website has a downloadable template to use when printing them out.
Snapfish.com
The most personalized kind of announcement is one in which the recipient can see a picture of the high school graduate in his or her cap and gown. Snapfish.com has photo graduation cards. There are several template designs available. The price for 20 4″ x 8″ photo cards is 75¢ each for up to 20 cards and 55¢ each for 40 to 60 cards. The envelopes are free with your order.
Free Announcements at www.graduation-invitations-graduation-party.com
The website www.graduation-invitations-graduation-party.comoffers FREE downloadable high school graduation announcement templates. There are over 20 different designs that can be used as graduation announcements. The rest of the templates featured on the site are invitations. Instructions for downloading and personalizing the announcements are included on the website.
Paperstyle.com
Paperstyle.com (www.paperstyle.com) is an invitation website with stylish, modern looking offerings. There are over 40 different high school graduation themes invitations that can also be used as announcements. The colors and designs of the announcements on this site are unique and a little bit fancy. The way to order your announcements cheaply from here is to order them blank and print out the wording yourself on the computer. Prices for blank announcements start at $20.00 for 20 cards and they go up to $30 for 20. The envelopes are free if they are blank with no return address printed on them.
Iprint.com (www.iprint.com) is a business stationery website with low prices. They offer free shipping with any order over $75. Here you can choose from 25 choices of “casual announcements” with a graduation theme. Seventeen of them have a space for a picture of the high school graduate. All of the announcements are personalized by Iprint and mailed to you ready to send out.
The price is $11.04 for 10 personalized announcements and $15.29 for 20. The more you order, the greater the discount. You have to order in quantities of 10. Envelopes are free.
Many Choices
As you can see, there is no shortage of places to buy cheap high school graduation announcements. You will proud to announce your graduate’s achievement with any of these styles.
