Printing Addresses on Invites

[ilovethiswebsite]

Hi Ladies,

Just wondering - what did you use to print addresses on your invite envelops? Did you print them directly on to the envelops, or did you get labels and print on to those. If you got labels, where did you get them from?

 

[cammy85]

We printed directly on the envelopes with a free downloaded calligraphy font from dafont.com. Since our envelopes are ivory (and we suck at calligraphy!) we just put each envelope one at a time through a laser printer. Turned out fabulously. Our RSVP envelopes are tiny and white, so we used basic Avery labels from Office Max. There are settings in both Microsoft Word and Publisher to format your printed page to a standard Avery label.

 

[ilovethiswebsite]

wow thanks cammy! i will check out that calligraphy thingy... i was just reading online that apparently some think it''s inappropriate to print labels... i guess etiquette calls for hand written addresses? me duuno ... thoughts?

 

[Lanie]

I wouldn''t print labels for a wedding invitation. STD, yes, but not a formal invitation. I''m researching all of this as well. If you google calligraphers (or look on The Knot for local ones), many will print instead of hand calligraphy for a little less. And they have cool fonts they can print with that a normal MS Word software doesn''t have. I think I''m going this route. Hand calligraphy is EXPENSIVE, especially if you have a lot of invitations to do, like we do.

 

[cammy85]

Yeah, typically labels are not popular. For us, since the rsvp envelopes are just coming back to us, I don't really care if they have a white label on a white envelope. We tried to feed them through the printer so it could print directly on the envelope, but the printer ate each one we tried!

So we had to find another way to do it, but we wanted the same nice font. Labels it is. I've tried so hard to keep with etiquitte for everthing wedding related that if printing labels for our RSVP cards is my biggest etiquitte breach, I'll be very happy.

At least for the outer envelope for the invitation, they're printed directly on. No labels.

If I had the money I'd do a calligrapher or at least nice handwriting, but we're on a very tight budget and both of our handwriting stinks.

If I have to choose between good food, or paying someone to handwrite on the invitations, I'm choosing good food and just printing on the envelopes.

ETA: True MS Word doesn't have a lot of great fonts to start out with, but if you just google "Free calligraphy fonts" you'll get plenty of websites that will let you download any font you want for free. So you aren't just stuck with what MS Word gives you by default.

 

[Sparkalicious]

We printed directly on the envelopes for a more formal feel ... I read somewhere that apparently labels are not a great idea b/c people discard mail with labels b/c they think that they are junk mail.

I don''t personally subscribe to that as I think that junk mail looks a lot different than a wedding invite, however, I do think that printing directly on the envelope, especially with fabulous calligraphy does add a certain touch of class.

 

[Rhea]

I printed directly on the envelope in the same script and colour to match our invitations.