Beef or Fish, Part 2
Ivory Shimmer Invitation Suite with Blush Accents
When we last left off, Mr. Eel and I were busily assembling and sending out invitations. We used a quartz metallic pocketfold and RSVP envelope, and a standard white outer envelope. The RSVP envelope was handwritten by a friend. All pieces were printed on 100# paper. To add some additional blush, we printed the Details card on the lightest pink paper I could find.
A closeup of the oversized RSVP card that I didn’t include in my last post:
Here’s what our guests will see upon opening the pocketfold: RSVP and Details cards in the pocket with invitation glue dotted on the left panel.
So how much did all of this cost us" Here’s our tale of the tape:
Budget Breakdown
Invitation Design
Gratis
Calligraphy
Gratis
Printing
Invitations $63.70
RSVP Cards $30.00
Details Cards $12.87
Total (with tax)Â $111.59
Envelopes
150 A6Â RSVP Envelopes in Quartz Metallic $53.85
130 A7 Pocketfolds in Quartz Metallic $106.95
125 A7 Invitation Envelopes $15.12
Total: $175.92
Postage
120 two ounce stamps @ $0.68 = $81.60
120 one ounce stamps @ $0.49 = $58.80
Total = $140.40
Total for 120 invitations: $427.91 (~$3.57 per invitation)
Yikes. Even though I tried to keep our invitation costs down, it was still pretty costly. We tried to be as budget conscious as possible, which meant standard printing as opposed to gold foil lettering. While the foil lettering would have been beautiful, it also would have cost us $...
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