Invitation DIY | Offbeat Bride

This is Offbeat Bride's archive of Invitation DIY posts.

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Most Recent Posts About Invitation DIY

Chad and Casey are having a "Harry Potter-esque" wedding. So what better way to introduce their guests to what magical wedding experiences await them than by delivering their Save the Dates via messenger owl!

Okay, well, maybe not exactly, but these owl Save the Dates are the next best thing, wouldn't ya say?

For extra nods to Harry Potter you could always use the the Lumos font or Harry P font for your the Save the Date!

Keep reading to see how you can use this owl template to make your own Harry Potter-themed Save the Dates, or for your table numbers, or shrink it down and use them as seating cards, etc.

Casey explains how she pulled off this owl-tastic invite:

Wax seals lend a hand-made touch to invitations, place cards, and other paper-crafted pieces of a wedding. They’re also a simple but gorgeous way to seal your handwritten vows until ceremony time, or to close a love letter for your significant other, all super-romantic-like. Beautiful seals are available commercially and from various vendors on Etsy, but here’s a trick to making your very own at home with a small handful of supplies.

Tribe member Melaina not only made these rad wedding activity books for the children, but she also made some seriously awesome pop-up wedding invitations. We figured, not only would you want to ogle them, but you may want to attempt to make something like them yourself.

Tribe member ManaKR made linen invitations. Keep reading to find out how to make these yourself. Just imagine the possibilities — badass pirate invites? Renaissance scrolls? Eco no-paper invites? These are time consuming, but really not hard.

We're excited to bring you the first post from our new DIY editor, Whitney Lee. In her first DIY post, Whitney makes logo designing accessible to those of us without a background in graphic design. Check it out…

OBTer Ang is DIY dynamite! We're here again to praise her genius yet again… this time with a very cool tutorial on how to bleach-stamp design your own invitations and other paper goodies!

Check out FolkFusionista's library card Save the Dates! They are pretty perfect, seeing as her future husband "J" is a Librarian and they are both bibliophiles.

I am planning on designing our STDs, invitations, and thank you cards myself. Do you have advice on great design or desktop publishing software? I have MS Publisher, but have...