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writes: OK, dear cupid's I need some help, advice.... anything which my help!! me and my partner are expecting our first child in July! We are very excited about this. But we really want to be married before the baby is born! So we have set a date! 24th February. I need help on organising this cheaply as possible (but still stylish) Is it possible to make your own invitations?? etc! Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you! xxxxx
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reader, anonymous, writes (21 December 2006): i got married in march 2006 and my second child was born in june. so if you need a dress go to brides and bumps. its brilliant. (google it)
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reader, stina  +, writes (21 December 2006):
 Oh yeah - a couple of other things -- I'm not sure if you know this already, but when downloading images make sure that they are at least 300 dpi. You can get away with 150, but anything less is going to look fuzzy. For example, images used on the internet at 72 dpi. That's really low. But if the image is huge (11 x 17 inches for example), then you can shrink it down to look okay since it will be a lot smaller on the card. If you get a small size image but it's at 300 dpi, then it will look fine if you blow it up to a larger size because there are more pixels to work with. Does that make sense? I'm a graphic designer, so sometimes I don't know if people understand all of this stuff that I tell them...
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reader, stina +, writes (21 December 2006):
Hi again :)
If you want some nice pictures, you could visit a stock photo site. The one that I use is istockphoto.com. It's not expensive and they have tons of photos, illustrations, etc to look through. You pay for each picture with credits. You can buy batces of credits at varying prices. There is also a free stock photo site, but it's hard to find quality pics. You can take a look at it, though, here: http://sxc.hu
There are also tons of free fonts to download here:
http://www.themeworld.com/fonts/ All of the fonts are categorized, too. So if you want something fancy, you could look at Calligraphic, any of the Decorative categories, etc.
Have you looked at a scrapbooking store to find some nice papers? A lot of times you can find what looks like homemade paper at those places. Even try stores online. Maybe paper with pressed flowers in them, or other natural materials. Maybe pair that with a nice vellum as an overlay with your picture (make sure the ink in your printer won't smudge, though). There are also other things you could look at to add some style to your invites, like paper punches, border punches, fancy stickers, yarns to bind the invites (a little labor intensive, but if not too many people are coming then it would look really nice!).
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reader, Danielle13 +, writes (21 December 2006):
Danielle13 is verified as being by the original poster of the question Thank you so much for all your help. Me and my partner are really lucky actually. My mum and dad, will pay for the wedding for us. I have my aunt who is a caterer doing the buffet, my fellas dad is a photographer, but want to keep the costs down as much as poss so that my mum and dad dont have to go mad. Have a ny of you got any nnice borders or pictures on any of your comps so that I can use them to make invites? Just a thought xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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reader, stina +, writes (21 December 2006):
Hi Danielle,
Congratulations on both the wedding and the baby! How exciting! :)
Well this is how I did things:
- we were married at a courthouse in our state capital (it was actually really nice and cute...and it only took a few minutes.) I'm not sure where you live, but here in the states you can request a copy of the words that will be spoken (I'm sure you could do that where you live, too, though.)
- we picked up some blank cards from the card shop and printed the invites at home with a fancy script; used the same font on the envelope, too
- my wedding dress was actually the dress that I wore on our first date (much more meaningful in my opinion than a typical wedding dress you'd pay megabucks for)
- my husband just wore one of his nice suits and one of his grandfather's ties (I thought that was nice :) )
- we had a buffet and my parents helped out with making the food; only a few things were picked up from restaurants
- put disposable cameras on all of the tables so people attending could snap away
- the pictures I liked best I put in a scrapbook that my husband helped me put together
- the wedding favors were candies in our wedding colors (blue mints, yellow butterscotches, and white/silver wrapped candies). Each color was put into its own jar with a ribbon tied around the top. We bought small bags at a craft store and attached a small tag on it with our names and wedding date. This way people could put whatever candy they wanted into their own bags.
- the only thing we splurged on was the cake, and we had enough money to do this by saving so much everywhere else in the planning
I also did something like willywombat - my husband and I were married with our parents and my grandparents attending. Right afterward we went and had lunch at a tea house. Then we headed off to our honeymoon in the Poconos. Then later on in the summer, we had a big bbq at the beach and it was really nice - people were swimming and it was a really laid back atmosphere. There was volleyball and badmitton and horseshoes for the guests, too. I mostly just mingled with everyone there, though. It was a lot of fun and inexpensive to rent a pavillion for the day at our state park. :)
This is something you might want to consider, too. If you have a college/university nearby and there is a photo department, you could post on their bulletin boards that you are looking for a wedding photographer. Students will want to make a nice portfolio for themsevles, and it will cost a lot less on your end. Plus they're learning up-to-date techniques and will have good equipment to use at their school.
Here is a website that really helped me out when I was planning: http://theknot.com/ Maybe it will help you get some ideas, too!
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reader, willywombat  +, writes (21 December 2006):
 Do things like they do it in Europe, have a Friday evening wedding then you don't have to do all that wedding breakfast malarkey! You can book your ceremony for later on four ish or five then go and have a big party somewhere (obviously depending on budget). Like Pete said, make your own invites, or ask people to contribute to the wedding instaed of the regular pots pans and toasters you get.
We had a holidya, got married there and came back and threw an evening perty for everyone who couldn't come. Like everybody. The only people who were there were My hubby, our son and me. The people who really mattered. Then we celebrated with a party about three weeks after we got home.
Make your own invites, ask a good friend to help make your dress, photographer friends? to help with photos? I am now going to look to see if there are any more ideas on google....
good luck
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reader, anonymous, writes (21 December 2006): Do you come from England? You could get married in Gretna Green in Scotland, romantic but on a budget :)
You will be getting married on the eve of my birthday so you will have a life-long and successful marriage I'm sure! ;)
As for your invitations, of course you can make your own , I think the personal touch is much better, personally!
All the best =)
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