This can be a fun and cost-saving way of making your wedding invitations. There are many craft stores and online craft shops that cater for the home-made market, and they can look just as good as the professionals. You can buy blank cards and matching envelopes in a wide variety of colours and textures, and add as much trimming as you want – feathers, beads, ribbon, tissue paper, dried flowers, sequins, bows… Its easy to be overwhelmed by the variety of trimmings, but you can either play about yourself, or copy something in a magazine – the golden rule: less is definately more!

And you don’t need to go down the route of craft stores and dried flowers! Modern invitations can be anything – as long as you can post it. Here are some other, more unusual ideas:

- Your own handwriting on some gorgeous hand-made paper

- Old-fashioned postage labels with the details written on by hand or stamped on – tied to a cute object like a plastic champagne bottle used for blowing bubbles.

- A semi transparent envelope filled with wedding confetti, or rose petals with your details typed on a sticker

- If you’re getting married abroad why not send a postcard of the location of your wedding

- If you’re having an afternoon tea party why not stamp your invitation on a traditional paper doley

- Take your pictures in a photo-booth and colour photocopy the results

- Color photocopier stores, such as Kall-kwik and Pontaprint, can typest your details on blank cards and you can add something to the front.
(TIP: if putting card through your own desktop printer, check its laser compatible and what weight of card is acceptable in the printers manual to avoid paper jams)

- Take your invitation wording to a local calligrapher and get the results photocopied.

- If you have kids, base a design around one of their drawings

If you have any more ideas, why not submit a comment and we’ll add them to the list.