| I have a few pieces of advice: -If you're cutting your own paper, invest in the following 3 items: 1. a cutting matte (usually dark-ish green with yellow or white grid lines), 2. an X-Acto knife, 3. a steel, cork-back ruler. These three things will make your cuts perfect... NO pair of scissors can do the same thing!!!! -If you're printing on your ink-jet printer on vellum, set the printer to 'overhead transparencies' or whatever word(s) your printer driver uses to describe overhead projector sheets. -Choose your envelope shape/size/colour FIRST, then the rest. So many brides on here have made beautiful invites, then have not been able to find envelopes to hold them... not in any colour... -Remember that you don't have to make an invite for each person, only for each family, couple or single person... buy extra paper, but not one unit per person. - **** Canada Post will not handle any mail smaller than 14 x 9 cm, so keep this in mind when making RSVP cards and choosing envelopes **** Also, the address should not be in a script-like font, Canada Post's machines can't read stuff like that. use Arial, Times New Roman, or the likes if you type the address... or hand print in block letters... also, use black or dark blue ink, nothing metallic (often done on dark-coloured envelopes) to write addresses, the machines can't read that either... choose a light colour for your envelopes, even if the invite isn't the same colour. ----------------- My cardstock/paper/envelopes all came from the company Artoz, from the UK, available at stationary stores in Canada, and some art stores. The paper for the stars in the centrepeices is from an art store in Germany. The 'brads', little metal things holding the invites together, are from loomis Art Store, in the scrapbooking section. My velum is from Loomis also, and came in 8.5 x 11' sheets, I cut it myself. The cardstock came pre-cut, and is usually sold open stock, so you can buy as much or as little as you want. This is a great Uk web site if you want to see the entire selection: The range I used: http://www.bureau-online.co.uk/main.asp?sitepages=Artoz1001 Entire Artoz collection: http://www.bureau-online.co.uk/main.asp?sitepages=Artoz ----------------- Now, here's my stuff: Invite  Acutal size 10,5 x 21cm (envelope 22,3 x 11,4) RSVP  Acutal size 13,5 x 8,5cm (envelope 14 x 9 cm) Favour tags (inside tins)   Maps, printed on cream coloured paper, the same as the envelopes 
Menu card (same cream colour as invite/RSVP envelope, and map paper) 
Seating chart  I also did my place cards (and the entire centrepiece) 
As long as everything coordinates, it will look amazing!!!
~~~~~Married and loving it!!~~~~~ Moved to Germany on April 25, 2006!!
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