So you don’t know, but I am getting married in May.  That means wedding craziness has set in months ago and I am now wedding exhausted.  I decided to start Wedding Wednesday where I will give you my thousands and thousands of readers (what I don’t have thousands of readers?) advice, links and anything else I can offer you that will make it a little easier to plan your wedding pretty much by yourself, as you need it, trust me you do.

So today I can offer you: Paperwork

First off is the now-mandatory “Save the Date” magnet.  While readers trust me I scoured many sites for the best save the date magnet Pioneer Color has by far the best.  We used this one, but fortunately were not the couple featured here:

Save the Date Magnet

The good thing is that you can customize them completely, and insert your own photos, and they are definitely on the cheaper side of wedding magnets.  The only downfall is that the envelopes they give you are pretty cheap, but hey, they go through your printer so you could print them.

Next up: Invitations

You could spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on invitations, or you can print them yourself.  My advice, print them yourself.  Now I happen to have a fiance who does online graphic design for a living, so our wedding website is impeccable, and our invitation had all sorts of good graphics.  But I believe in this day and age, with a printer and some creativity you can make you own amazing invitations.  Here are some kits I found to be really awesome.

We used this one from LCI paper, they came quickly, were fairly cheap for a very nice quality, and absolutely customizable.

Ours of course were prettier.  We bought matching card stock which we cut to size and printed and put in the pocket to include extra information for our wedding including directions, schedule and accommodations.  I have even see people use this patterned paper to make a guest book on Etsy, so order an extra pack of bigger paper and make your own guest book too.  I think the metallic envelopes are especially good looking.

If you want to go green may I suggest Invite Site, pretty handmade paper invitations, that are earth friendly.  If you get Seedlings you can plant them after and they will grow!  There are many matching save the date cards if you don’t do the mandatory magnet, or want to send them additionally.  You can then print graphics on the inside printable card if you get one of the planner ones.  I really think the paper quality though makes them extra special.

Honorable mentions go to:

Paper Style who has some beautiful things you can order unprinted and print  yourself.  So get your graphic printing skills ready or order something ornate like the Georgette Scroll in blue so you just have to type.

Also a note, when you order, order lots of extras for those you will screw up, those the printer will screw up and extras for people you will forget on your list.  I also cannot stress how important  it is to make google lists (you can merge them from excel and back and forth onto excel) that you can share with family.  We shared our invite list so the Momma, MIL to be, FIL to be could all add addresses and RSVPs to the list, I did this with the shower invites too.

You could order shower invites, but really when Michael’s has them in the dollar bins, target will have them on clearance and other places have them for super cheap, unless they are a good deal and match completely and you order them with the magnets or invitations and don’t have to pay shipping, then it isn’t worth it.

My last advice, if you had a pyro problem as a kid, put wax seals on them.  You can order wax seals online, and I recommend the cylinder ones like these below from Letterseals.com where you get the wax that you can stick in a glue gun, or the ones with the pot that you heat over the candle drip version from Micheal’s.   They come in a large variety of colors.  People are really impressed by wax seals.

Trust me people will talk about them.  Do it.

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