Why you can still have luxury hot foiled invitations but on a budget

Luxury is a word that can shout 'expensive' to some couples who are looking for ways to keep their spending to a certain budget. This is when stationery becomes bottom of the list and it then even becomes part of a DIY project that could end up costing more than going to a professional.

Wedding stationery, in my opinion should never be forgotten about and be pushed to the do-it-later pile. Invitations are what brings your guests to your wedding. Without an invitation, who will be there? Invitations are a wedding planning task you should be organising from the beginning. Stationers get booked up in advance, just like any other wedding supplier out there and if you get married in 4 months time and you’ve seen some out of this world invitations, I suggest contacting that stationer now because it is highly likely they can’t fit you in at such short notice.

Back to the main topic, and I can fully understand why wedding invitations with beautiful hot foil with all the trimmings can look out of your budget but hot foil is something that isn’t much more expensive than having a digital print (digital print is what you can print on a home printer, the cyan, magenta, yellow, black ink). This is down to the materials used and the process and the fact that I print all of these myself in my home studio so I can keep the costs down for my clients.

Hot foil is what I specialise in and I choose to offer this to my clients because 1. I love the process and end result of it and 2. because of cost (and many other reasons that I won’t go into in this post!)
After doing a lot of research and testing, I no longer offer digital foil for my wedding stationery collections (foil that sits on top of your paper, it’s black ink that is foiled) because I found the cost was too expensive and the luxurious overall look of hot foil over digital won by miles in my opinion.

At the end of the day, you just need to prioritise what is valuable to you and your partner and what initial reaction you want from your guests the moment they open their invitations to your special day. Invitations without foil can be just as beautiful and I do offer all of my collections without foil too but if you would love to have hot foil but you are thinking it is out of your budget without even asking, have a rethink and go fill out my enquiry form for a quote, you may just be surprised!