Anyone want to take a guess as to how much our invitations cost? Lower. Lower. Still lower. You'll never guess.
Design: $0.00
- Designed it ourselves
- I can't even begin to guess how much it would cost for a graphic designer.
Labor: $0.00
- Did itourselves myself, mostly
- You don't even want to know how many hours have gone into printing, cutting, punch, gluing, etc. went into this. I would be rich if I even charged myself minimum wage.
Postage: $107.55 (rsvp - $0.44/each, domestic - $0.88/each, 3 international, 5 sent in one package to be hand delivered to family, 4 hand delivered locally, and one for a keepsake)
- I already knew that because of the shape (square), our invites would be slightly more. But I was crossing my fingers in hopes that they didn't tip the scales. Thank god they didn't!
Reusable materials: approximately $100 (after discounts and taxes, but not rolling this into the final cost)
- White gel pen used for the "please recycle" message
- Stamps of our graphic (Purchased from Paper Source. We have both the large and the small one (two for whatever reason my bridal brain came up with back in December of 2009!)
- ColorBox Pigment Stamp pads in black and scarlett
- VersaMarkStamp pad
- Clear embossing powder
- Paper punches (border and corner)
- Embossing heat gun
- PVA glue (left over from lord only knows what project)
- Printer and ink. I got this printer at 50% off waaaaay back when.
- Font
Raw Materials: $76.11!!!!
- This amount does not include shipping as other paper products were also ordered at this time. All paper was ordered from Paper and More. I highly reccommend them!
- 12x12 100# cardstock in black for the enclosure
- 8.5x11 100# cardstock in cherry red for the invitation and name card backing
- 8.5x11 80# cardstock in bright white for the invitation, information card, rsvp card, and name card
- 4 bar envelopes in bright white
- 6x6 square envelopes in bright white
- 96.75 yards of twine. Barely made a dent in my giant spool of twine.
Grand total: $183.66
- Each invitation suite cost just over $0.88!!! $0.885 to be exact!!!
- $2.20 including all postage for invites shipped within the USA. Can you believe that?!?! The postage was the bulk of it!
- Paula told me that our invites could have easily run $1300 if we had a real staionary vendor do them.
45 days.
Design: $0.00
- Designed it ourselves
- I can't even begin to guess how much it would cost for a graphic designer.
Labor: $0.00
- Did it
- You don't even want to know how many hours have gone into printing, cutting, punch, gluing, etc. went into this. I would be rich if I even charged myself minimum wage.
Postage: $107.55 (rsvp - $0.44/each, domestic - $0.88/each, 3 international, 5 sent in one package to be hand delivered to family, 4 hand delivered locally, and one for a keepsake)
- I already knew that because of the shape (square), our invites would be slightly more. But I was crossing my fingers in hopes that they didn't tip the scales. Thank god they didn't!
Reusable materials: approximately $100 (after discounts and taxes, but not rolling this into the final cost)
- White gel pen used for the "please recycle" message
- Stamps of our graphic (Purchased from Paper Source. We have both the large and the small one (two for whatever reason my bridal brain came up with back in December of 2009!)
- ColorBox Pigment Stamp pads in black and scarlett
- VersaMarkStamp pad
- Clear embossing powder
- Paper punches (border and corner)
- Embossing heat gun
- PVA glue (left over from lord only knows what project)
- Printer and ink. I got this printer at 50% off waaaaay back when.
- Font
Raw Materials: $76.11!!!!
- This amount does not include shipping as other paper products were also ordered at this time. All paper was ordered from Paper and More. I highly reccommend them!
- 12x12 100# cardstock in black for the enclosure
- 8.5x11 100# cardstock in cherry red for the invitation and name card backing
- 8.5x11 80# cardstock in bright white for the invitation, information card, rsvp card, and name card
- 4 bar envelopes in bright white
- 6x6 square envelopes in bright white
- 96.75 yards of twine. Barely made a dent in my giant spool of twine.
Grand total: $183.66
- Each invitation suite cost just over $0.88!!! $0.885 to be exact!!!
- $2.20 including all postage for invites shipped within the USA. Can you believe that?!?! The postage was the bulk of it!
- Paula told me that our invites could have easily run $1300 if we had a real staionary vendor do them.
45 days.
that's awesome! They came out so good, your undetermined labor cost was worth it :)
ReplyDeletePaula is so right - your invitations are so professional... you could seriously go into business. (Labor cost= skyrockets!) :)
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