The Fantabulous DIY Wedding Thread

Babyloco · by **Babyloco** » Sat Sep 18, 2022 1:39 pm

StupidSexyFlanders wrote:Thanks girls!!

Roma when I bought mine there were no design ideas on the site but they have since set up a design blog with some fab ideas on it and there is a section where people can submit their own designs-some of the things people have come up with are amazing.

Marylin I ordered 75 of each component - the total cost was €160, including €30 for customs. I didn't bother ordering samples as I'd actually already received an invitation from a friend of mine who also used them so I knew the quality was great. The only thing I would recommend is using a laser printer and making sure what is the minimum paper size it can handle. I ran into some issues with this and nearly tore my hair out until I got it sorted!

Thanks a million,ill look into it again :thnk

roma2011 · by **roma2011** » Sat Sep 18, 2022 3:57 pm

mrsG2b2011 wrote:Well done roma11 for the progress on this post. It will be great to be able to find easily as a sticky and I'm sure once people see it it will get loads of traffic and hopefully can make it into a forum. Such a great idea.

Thanks

I hope it gets stickied...thought it would have happened by now. Maybe they're waiting to make sure it gets enough interest or something.

shazza k · by **shazza k** » Sat Sep 18, 2022 5:08 pm

this thread is great loadsof ideas!!

Cats1 · by **Cats1** » Sat Sep 18, 2022 6:43 pm

Roma2011...

Brilliant idea... I'm hoping (thinking!!!) of doing alot for myself so this will be great... and stupidsexyflanders, I had been thinking of getting my invitations from somewhere els but the ones you have look amazing and not too much of a different in price so really going to reconsider...

Think this will be a great thread....

CAts1

luckyladee · by **luckyladee** » Sat Sep 18, 2022 8:16 pm

Nice one Roma!
That list of links is going to give me lots of google fodder.
We also are doing all of our own invitations, placecards and mass booklets. Also doing my own cake, pew ends, centrepieces and probably flowers.
So I'll get great use from this thread and look forward to seeing it stickied!
:o)ll

by **lstars** » Sat Sep 18, 2022 8:24 pm

well done roma!!! great idea!! soooo handy having that huge list!!! :o)ll

by **1210** » Sat Sep 18, 2022 11:01 pm

Hey Stupidsexyflanders, they are gorgeous. I had intended buying mine tonight but wasn't happy with one aspect of them so said i'd leave it another day or two..When I saw this post earlier, I am now seriously thinking of changing my mind... I know this will prob sound like a silly question but how do you print them, are you given software and did you buy a laser printer or use one from work etc? Yours look perfect and i'm gonna be annoying himself tomorrow with my new find for my perfect invites, thanks to you! :thnk

by **Akashla** » Sat Sep 18, 2022 11:04 pm

+1 for a sticky!

This thread is fabulous for ideas, and hints and tips... it would be nice to be able to easily keep an eye on it throughout the planning stages.

AngelButterfly · by **AngelButterfly** » Sat Sep 18, 2022 11:17 pm

Should definitely be a sticky! Just to showcase SuperSexyFlanders' invites is enough of a reason! They'd motivate anyone to make their own invites.

StupidSexyFlanders · by **StupidSexyFlanders** » Sun Sep 19, 2022 2:02 pm

1210 wrote:Hey Stupidsexyflanders, they are gorgeous. I had intended buying mine tonight but wasn't happy with one aspect of them so said i'd leave it another day or two..When I saw this post earlier, I am now seriously thinking of changing my mind... I know this will prob sound like a silly question but how do you print them, are you given software and did you buy a laser printer or use one from work etc? Yours look perfect and i'm gonna be annoying himself tomorrow with my new find for my perfect invites, thanks to you!

We have a laser printer - we got it in Harvey Norman last year for around €140 so you can pick them up fairly cheaply. I knew I was going to be making my own invitations so I wanted to get one but they're handy to have anyway. If we hadn't bought one I would have used one in work on the sly!

I didn't work from a template, I did everything myself using Microsoft Word. Its fairly easy though, all you need to do is change the paper size to whatever your invitation size/RSVP size etc. is and work away from there. I downloaded the font that I used for our names and the "Accommodation" heading cos I wasn't happy enough with any of the preset ones on Word, but thats easy to do too, and free, and there are loads to choose from.

StupidSexyFlanders · by **StupidSexyFlanders** » Sun Sep 19, 2022 2:06 pm

AngelButterfly wrote:Should definitely be a sticky! Just to showcase SuperSexyFlanders' invites is enough of a reason! They'd motivate anyone to make their own invites.

Wow girls thanks so much, I'm absolutely delighted with the reaction! Spurred me on to finish some more yesterday!

by **1210** » Sun Sep 19, 2022 4:22 pm

Thanks stupid sexy Flanders last question how easy was it to work with the design? Did u just upload it to word and mess around with it... If it's easy enough to print on with a home printer I might just download my picture but where would I find such artwork most I found online are crap quality... Sorry for all the questions but nearly had a mini meltdown this morning about how late I left these, just couldn't settle for any of the ones I looked at. But I think I'll go with these if I find a nice image online to print on the invite. X

StupidSexyFlanders · by **StupidSexyFlanders** » Sun Sep 19, 2022 4:36 pm

It was fairly handy to work with. I purchased it from www.istockphoto.com - I found it on that site by searching for "damask" and filtering the search to Illustrations only - that will give you loads of results (it won't let me paste link to the results for some reason, but just type "damask" in the search box and click the box for "Illustrations" instead of "All Files" or else you'll end up with photos/videos etc. and a million results!). Once I downloaded it I cropped it to the size I wanted and was able to drop it into the Word document from there using the "Insert Picture" tool.

If you find one you like and are having trouble with manipulating it for Word let me know and I'd be happy to give you some help.

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luckyladee · by **luckyladee** » Sun Sep 19, 2022 10:52 pm

Great to see this stickied.
Cant wait to see what sort of ideas we all get sharing!

Thanks admin

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