Personalize your Wedding Invitations

It’s wedding season again as the Ber months are slowly streaming in. To all the Brides-to-Be who are still on the Wedding Invitations phase, let me suggest something…

We love our wedding invitations. It wasn’t anything fancy but it truly spoke about us. It was simple but stylish enough. It was inexpensive yet elegant. Being a Bride-on-a-Budget, I had my nose up for any ingenious find. I was sooo disappointed with the designs that we found on the more popular shops at the mall like VCraft and QP. Most of them were plain but surprisingly very expensive. Another pet peeve was I didn’t want my invitation to look like a hundred others out there. Most of their designs at VCraft and QP had the usual monogrammed initials on the envelope and standard text fonts and wordings inside. I knew that having my wedding invitations custom-made would cost me but I didn’t give up. I know somebody out there would be able to personalize my invitations even for a very low cost.

The answer to my prayers was a little home-based business called “Village Projekt”. The proprietor/designer Katrina Valenzuela runs her design shop at home in UP Village. I learned from our first meeting that this young mom-preneur graduated from the UP Diliman School of Fine Arts. She was really nice and engaging. And the best thing is she can work around your budget. I didn’t want to go beyond P10,000 for 100pcs of invitations. If I went to QP or VCraft that would have been impossible because the cheapest nice ones I found there cost somewhere P120-150 per piece. Since we want a coffee-themed wedding using brown and pink colors, Katrina offered to use coffee-like wood beads as accents to the brown satin ribbon. The pink graphic was Katrina’s enhancement of a clip art that Joseph was able to dig from the internet. They’re supposed be artsy versions of a coffee cup and some coffee clouds. The materials were simple. She used Gold Dust boards and Sirio Caffe envelopes. Our invitation only cost P95/pc. It was simple but our guests thought it looked classy. Pardon me if my photographs didn’t do them any justice. HeeHee… =)



Anyway, as an additional touch, we bought a ceramic seal with the initial “J’ (for Joseph and Jill) at Hobbes and Landes. Since we can’t find a pink-colored wax for the seal, we used pink glue stick instead and it worked.


So there you have it. We had a wedding invitation that wasn’t too expensive. It was personalized for us and by us. And our guests like it. Wedding invitations are very important. It’s not just something that announces the date and venue of your wedding but it gives your guests the first impression of how you really are as a couple. The wedding invitation introduces your personality. We were proud of our invites because not only we were able to save up but putting it together by ourselves (putting on the name labels and sealing the envelopes with the pink monogram) was a beautiful bonding time for us as a couple. So for those who have just been engaged, start practicing your teamwork on being a couple by personalizing your wedding invitations.

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If you want to see more Village Projekt designs go HERE