I did it. I ordered a gocco. It was expensive, exciting, terrifying (because it was expensive). But here’s the thing. I did some research into how much printing my wedding invitations was going to cost, and anything of good quality was going to cost almost as much as a used gocco. I was OK with doing our save the dates on the cheap (kinkos-ish) but I wanted something fancier for the save the dates. However, since I am a pretty practical person, I thought I should kill two birds with one stone. In the end I’ll have good-looking invitations (lets hope) and I’ll have a gocco. Score! And the gocco will last way beyond the time when everyone but our parents tosses their invitations.
We haven’t started the design phase yet, since we knew we’d be tailoring the design to the printing method we chose. (More on printing methods in this previous post). So now that we have a gocco on the way, here are our limitations.
1. one or two ink colors (because I’m not up for registering more than two colors for hundreds of invitations).
2. printed area has to be about 4×6 inches or smaller (because I went with the smaller, cheaper, PG-11 model).
3. since printing took up most of our invitation budget, I’m going to have to cut costs somewhere – i.e. no inner envelopes, no map/direction cards, no ‘extras’ in the packet besides the invitation and the reply card, and postcard RSVPs. I’m OK with this because I never understood inner envelopes anyway, and postcards are fun.
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So, now that we know our limitations, there are a few things I really want to include:
• Patterned envelope liners. I really want to make this happen, just cause.
• Pattern somewhere else – on the back of the invitation? on the postcard? both?
• some kind of wrapper for the invitation and postard, to dress it up a bit.
• some kind of design reference to our save the dates. I mean, they have to loosely match somehow…
Sounds like we’ve got some work to do and I can’t wait!
[first image via elizabeth ann designs]
