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The pros and cons of printing invitations.


Professionally Printed Invitations

Pros

- Beautiful raised lettering

- Professional quality

- Guaranteed superior quality for your once-in-a-lifetime event

- Less personal time involved than printing your own invitations

- Easy selection of paper and design options

- Clear printing quality

- Worry- and hassle-free ordering

- Allows you to concentrate on other plans for the event

- Proofreaders catch mistakes for you

- The company printing your invitations will take responsibility for errors, should they exist

- Do not have to buy all the supplies, ink, fonts and paper

- Order all of the matching parts (enclosures, thank you notes, glassware, books) at one time

- Wide variety of invitation styles to choose from

- Additional options such as lined envelopes

Cons

- You don't get to know how well your home computer or printer works

- You don't have the satisfaction of creating your own invitation

- Expense and beginning monetary costs may be more than printing them on your own

- May not be as creative as the bride likes

- Extra costs for colored ink or extra lines







Pros

- Learn how your home computer and printer work

- You create your own invitation

- The beginning monetary costs may be lower

- Creativity with papers and layouts



Cons

- Printer frustrations

- Getting the paper to feed correctly through your printer

- Time to set up and print documents

- When you are planning a big event, you don't want to be worrying about invitations as well

- Cost and time involved trying to find the perfect papers, font and verse for the invitation

- Limited design options due to home printer restrictions

- Limited font selections

- If you make a mistake, you need to start over

- Stress of fitting the invitation to size onto a card






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