Wedding discoveries

Hello ladies (and some gents that read my blog)! I must share my wedding discoveries. First off, I've already told you guys to not sleep on the Dollar Tree, Dollar General, or Family Dollar. I know you can see the theme here-you can find candles, holders, favor boxes and sacks, standard thank you cards, cellophane. You can find all kinds of things if you just look. Now the one place that I've used twice and very happy with is FedEx Kinkos. I used them for my save-the-dates and printing my invitations and both situations, they took care of our printing needs. For the save-the-dates, we went in and sat at one of their self-service PCs. We wanted to have them as magnets so we found something that was close to our colors and entered our information and boom! 200 magnets for $80. We got them in less than a week. As for the invitations, I bought them at Michael's. It's the BRIDES brand. I read on The Knot and a fellow bride suggested Office Max to print the invitations. I'm still going to use them for my DIY programs. I'll be using vellum paper and unfortunately Kinko's can't print on that type of paper. I found that out last weekend. So my FI suggested Kinko's. We went and was helped by Alex-she took care of us. She was patient, printed some test pages before we finalized. We came back after two hours and the invites and RSVPs looked so beautiful that my eyes attempted to shed a tear. Aside from my dress, that was a moment where I felt really girlie and bride-like. I looked at the invitations and just smiled thinking "This is really going to happen." So very awesome! I have 160 invites at $.59 each. Now, because I chose to have the font printed in brown, it was .59 cents. Had it been black ink,  .10 cents a page. So for printing the invites and the RSVP cards-127 dollars. That wasn't bad at all and they came out so well. So ladies, I would definitely recommend them for things that you need printed in regards to your wedding. If you have the money or just want to go traditional with calligraphy, that's cool. However, this was quick, beautiful and inexpensive. Plus, there are some locations that are 24 hours and if you and your FI are up and late working on wedding stuff, you can chill at Denny's eating and relaxing and get your invites printed at the same time. Happy wedding planning!