DIY Wedding Invitations

Redefining DIY for the Modern Bride

For most brides, the decision to DIY their wedding stationery stems from the desire to make their wedding truly unique. If you are one of these brides, then let us first say this: congratulations! Going the DIY route is a wonderful way to weave your personality and unique style into your save the dates, wedding invitations, thank yous and other stationery. DIY can be defined as one or both of the following:
—​designing the look and layout of the product
—​doing the assemblage of each piece of the product

Total DIY

For the very hands-on bride, DIY involves both designing and doing everything from scratch, including: purchasing all DIY supplies (card stock, ink, glue, printer etc.), creating the design, printing the design, and then cutting, affixing and assembling each piece. Some brides relish the creative challenge behind this all-encompassing execution of DIY. If you’re a “Total DIYer” like this, then kudos to you! However, for many brides, a different form of DIY may better suit their natural talents, creative spirit and time constraints.

Do-It-Yourself

Some brides extract the design process out of DIY and choose to focus on the “doing”, or the physical production and assemblage of the product. This often means replicating an existing DIY project they liked and saw on a DIY website or vendor. Typically, brides buy the individual supplies themselves or purchase a packaged DIY kit. While this do-it-yourself approach allows brides to print their wording and assemble the pieces, the design itself has been predetermined, with little or no room for personalization.

Design-It-Yourself

With the growing popularity of personalization, many brides today are migrating toward a “design-it-yourself” approach, focusing their efforts on the creative conception and execution of the design itself. To completely design it from scratch, brides can either create it by hand, or swap scissors for software by learning a graphic design program. Alternately, brides can find design templates online to personalize. However, product and design quality varies greatly on these websites, and they often restrict how much of the design the bride can personalize.

iDIY

Instead of focusing on design vs. do, iDIY focuses on their shared element: personalization. For iDIY Save the Dates, Invitations, and Stationery, brides start with a design-it-yourself approach, brainstorming their DIY vision, then pick out their products and designs online. Using advanced design editing tools, brides personalize their design online by choosing their own colors, photos, fonts and wording. After their printed products arrive, brides then fold, assemble and affix all their stationery items. By designing online and using professional printing, brides maintain creative control and confidence in the finished product.