Category Archive

invitations

This is our massive archive of wedding invitation posts — but we’ve also got more specific archives like Invitation Porn orInvitation DIY tutorials, as well as archives dedicated to custom invitations, diy invitations, eco-friendly invitations, email invitations, invitation packages, AND our most popular archive: invitation wording.

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How to make your own lino block rubber stamps for all your wedding needs

My future wife and I wanted to DIY our invites from scratch. So, I found these cute print-yourself blank invites and we’re adding our Minnesota outline wedding logo to the cards via lino block stamps. Here are my very simple DIY instructions on how to make your own lino block/rubber stamps for all your wedding needs.

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Hand-made, fold-out, super personalized wedding party invitations

We wanted a really special and personal way to ask our friends to be in our wedding party, and I wanted to make something ourselves. So we dug around in boxes of old photos of us and some of our favorite people and made these fold-out wedding party invitations.

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Your fave Minted invitation designs (plus a $300 giveaway!)

Ooh, it’s that time again! That slightly creepy time where I look deep into the bowels of my affiliate sales reports to see which Minted.com invitation designs y’all are loving the most. For those of you just joining us, here’s how it works: when you buy something from Minted.com after clicking a link on Offbeat Bride, I can see what you buy. I can’t see WHO buys what (your secrets are safe!), but I can see which stuff is the most popular with my readers. This is kind of awesome because y’all have great taste.

As we head into the planning season for 2013’s winter and spring weddings, let’s take a peek at the invitation designs that are getting Offbeat Brides the most excited right now. PLUS, as an added bonus, I’ve got info from Minted about how you can enter to win $300 worth of FREE invitations.

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Make an envelope from a Google Map

Send your invitation wrapped in a map — make a Google map into the envelope. I love the idea of sending a hope-you’ll-be-here note with a red dot marking the spot. Want to do this yourself? Easy peasy, homies — here’s how.