A map is a great piece of extra info to include in your wedding invites for any friends and family coming in from out of town. If you’re already planning on DIYing your invites, you’ll be happy to know it doesn’t take an expert map maker to DIY a map insert as well! While this map wouldn’t be impressive to a pro with professional grade software, I think it looks pretty good and will be useful to your guests.
You don’t need a very sophisticated program for this either! My Photoshop skills are limited to none, so I used Microsoft PowerPoint instead. While it is time consuming, the steps are rather easy. It took about three hours to perfect this project, but if you aren’t as picky as I am, it shouldn’t take that long.
Materials:
Computer
Photo editing software (this can even just be MS paint!)

Step 1
First, you want to open your photo program and create a new document to work with. For making the map, you will be using the drawing tools. These will appear as either a paint brush or pencil in almost any program.
Step 2
Next, using Google Maps or whatever internet map website you prefer, get a view of the area where the ceremony and reception will be. I did this on Google maps using the ?Get Directions? feature. I plugged in our ceremony address to our reception address, and poof! There was an accurate, close-up version of the area.

Step 3
Press ?Print Screen? (or “PrtScn”) on your keyboard to copy the image from ...