Weddingbee.com is giving away 50-100 invitiations from Papeterie.  Click here to enter by 8pm today.

Papermints.com is having a 20% off sale on their stitch collection of wedding invitations.

Here’s a festive idea if you’re announcing your wedding around Halloween or having it around Halloween next year and want to be fun and creative.  You can find these a few other designs at Wedding Invitations Plus.

Happy Halloween!

Invitations can easily be done on your own, especially with the help of Uniquity Invitation Templates.  With their online invitation templates, you just have to select a design and change the text to what ever you want it to say.  Then just print, cut and mail the invitations.  It may take a Saturday to get it all done, but it’s still an easy way to save money. 

Not convinced that it’s worth it to try to cut costs for the most important day of your life? Consider this: what if you had a small private affair for your closest friends and relatives and didn’t buy an expensive engagement ring, spending around $13,000 for your wedding instead of the average price tag of $27,000?

What if you invested the $14,000 you saved in the stock market and left it there until you retired (assuming 40 years later), earning an average of 10% a year? What would you end up with? A whopping $634,000!

It’s hard to look so far ahead when you’re just starting out in your life together, but the world is full of people who find themselves quickly approaching retirement age without the financial means to retire. When all is said and done, I’ll bet many of them would have traded a bigger, fancier wedding for the $634,000 nest egg.

For more tips on saving costs, see the full article on About.com

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Ideas For Budget Wedding Invitations:

• It used to be proper etiquette to mail them in two envelopes. The inner envelope protected the invitation. But that isn’t necessary nowadays and is an added expense.

• Consider using a postcard inside for the RSVP. You’ll save on postage

• You can check online for wholesale or discount invites. There are lots of sources on the net.

• Check out places like Kinko’s or even Staples. They have very reasonable prices.

• A very cheap alternative is a kit- this allows you to make them yourself right on your computer

BWG Tip: Make the hand-written addresses elegant and pick pretty stamps. You won’t sacrifice style; you’ll just save money.