The trifold wedding invitation

An invitation set-up I have not yet posted about: trifolds.

The most popular invitation set up is a flat 5x7 inch card, with an smaller rsvp card, and extra then sometimes more cards to include maps, directions, reception information, and more.

In the case of a trifold invitation, you can have some of this extra information -maps, directions, and such- printed on the fold(s), though of course the rsvp card is still separate. Below are two examples.

The first example is a card that is about 5x10 inches when unfolded, 5x7 when folded. The main panel is 5x7 inches, with two panels on each side that are approximately 2.5x7 inches. A barn door photograph is printed on the outside of the invitation.




The second example is a card that is also about 5x10 inches when unfolded, 5x7 inches when folded. The main panel is also 5x7 inches. In this case, however, you have a 1.5x7 inch fold on the left, and a 3.5x7 inch panel on the right. The outside is printed with stripes and stylized flowers. This example is made of cream card stock.



Trifold invitations need to be held closed. The easiest way to do that is just to use a small sticker. You can of course use various sizes of stickers. You could also work on a DIY project, closing the invitations with ribbons or bows or whatever else you could think of.

As with all invitations, if you have me design a tri-fold invitation for you, you can change things up a bit. The customer who ordered the barn door invitations went with brown envelopes, for example, instead of white envelopes. Different card stock colors... different designs... different fonts... different colors...

Trifold invitations will cost you more than flat, non-folding invitations. They would cost less than a pocketfold, however, and certainly cost less to mail out than a pocketfold invitation would.

Save the Date tickets

Tickets look-a-likes are a popular idea for wedding save the dates. One ticket design in particular that people enjoy- sports like designs.

In an earlier post about a sports ticket save the date, I featured a 2.1x6.25 inch ticket that someone had me design. This particular ticket was made out of a skinnier flyer type paper. Since then, it's been more popular to get the ticket design printed on a thicker card or even a magnet, both of which are more cost effective at the smaller 2x5.5 inch size. With wedding save the dates, people often want to stick to simple short lines of text, so this smaller size works. People who want a similar design for something else- like a rehearsal dinner invitation- need to go with a bit of a larger card (2.75x8.5 is a good size),

As with all designs on the website, customers can ask for customization; Photograph, no photograph, wording, colors, etc. One thing that usually needs to stay the same, though, is the font style. There are only a small number of fonts that will work in the small available space.



Here are a couple of design examples on the website:





Whether going with a magnet or card, if customers want to mail the save the date ticket out alone, I recommend the 3.5x6 inch envelope size, and do offer white envelopes of that size.

Visit my website: save the date originals

Invitations: color card stock

This is a good example of a simple black ink design printed on a colored card stock. Instead of printing the background color- the card stock is raspberry pink. This way, you don't spend a ton of money on ink, but still get a nice look.

This example wedding invitation is 5x7 inches. The design is also actually loosely based on a save the date design from the website:



As you can see, the save the date's swirl surrounded oval is the main idea for the invitation design.

Another new invitation design

This is another invitation design that was mostly a customer's idea. For her save the date magnets, we ended up using a photograph of two daisies, persimmon and yellow, which she wanted to incorporate into her invitation design. Our end result is this invitation design with a persimmon border and the photograph of the daisies placed in the corners. This is a 5.5x8.5 inch invitation; The size allows for the incorporated flowers, the border, and the extra text she wanted to include

A free sample pack of printed magnets

After 5 years of business, customers have made it obvious which magnet sizes they love the most. Given the numbers of extra magnets I have left over from orders over the years, I am now offering a free pack of samples to interested customers for the most popular sizes. This free sample pack will be available now through August.

http://www.savethedateoriginals.com/FreeSamples.html

It's About Time

Considering that Save the Date Originals started out based solely on wedding save the dates, it's about time that I set up an informative central page for this on my website.

Check it out:
http://savethedateoriginals.com/SavetheDate.html

This page currently features 4 articles:
1) What save the dates are
2) What's popular these days
3) Some Q&A
4) Mailing out save the date magnets

Small magnet pricing

As of yesterday, the small (business card sized magnet) pricing was restructured a little bit.

This minimum quantity is now 75 for orders. Also, this magnet size can now be ordered in 25's below 200, and in 50's below 400.

Quantity & Price 75 for $38	Cost Per Magnet $.51	Shipping cost $5.05
100 for $48	$.48	$5.45
125 for $56	$.45	$5.65
150 for $60	$.4	$6.05
175 for $65	$.37	$6.45
200 for $70	$.35	$6.85
250 for $85	$.34	$7.20
300 for $100	$.33	$8
350 for $110	$.31	$8.50
400 for $120	$.29	$9
500 for $135	$.26	$10

See some save the date & other designs here:
http://savethedateoriginals.com/SmallDesigns.html

Read the general informational page about this magnet size here:
http://savethedateoriginals.com/SmallMagnetInfo.html