Signature Wedding RSVP Made Easy

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for those of you that don't know I'm Maggie and today I'm really excited to chat all about minted wedding invites and absolutely every detail that you need to know about them this was something that I had had my eye on I've seen a ton of these come in my mailbox that set on my fridge for a long time and I was always really drawn to the designs that meant it offered we're going for just a little bit more laid-back vibe I wanted things that looked really nice but I also wanted invites that were practical and didn't cost an arm and a leg since in the end it's something that just gets thrown away like I don't think that my friends are keeping my wedding invites to look back on in their memory box do you know what I mean what is minted minted is an online retailer that carries a whole lot of paper goods so I mentioned the wedding invites but they also do tons of like basic stationery they have greeting cards anything paper goods related you can find it on minted now they market themselves as a marketplace of independent artists which i think is really cool and I wanted to read you this direct quote from their website because I feel like this is something that's overlooked with their company and so I just wanted to bring a little bit of exposure to it no this isn't sponsored I just really really like minted and paper goods in general so it says we believe that great design lives and thrives in the hands of independent artists that people do not have access to through traditional retailers minted use technology to allow consumers to discover great creative talent making minted a place where artists can learn gain exposure and build their businesses so it's just one big conglomeration of a lot of creative talented people that make a really pretty paper goods make sense we opted to use minted for our wedding invites for a lot of reasons we wanted something a little bit more laid-back we wanted something that was really us we wanted something that was efficient we wanted something that didn't cost an arm and a leg but if here's somebody who's an extreme traditionalist with weddings and you are having like the fanciest wedding and you want everything to be I don't know like you've seen for years and years you can always go to your local paper store and you can get the fancy super thick paper invites that come with a layer of tissue paper that nobody knows what it's for reply cards with their own envelopes and everything but if you wanted something more similar to what we are going for then I would definitely encourage you to check out minted so now that you know what minted is what kind of invites do they actually have for you to choose from because maybe you don't want something that looks just like somebody else's well you definitely don't run that risk because with the thousands and thousands of designs that they have they also have a ton of different formats so I'm gonna walk you through the formats from least expensive to most expensive so they have a four panel format that basically looks like a greeting card it opens up it has details you can put things on the front the inside and the back they also have the all-in-one invite which is basically the invitation the envelope and the reply card all in one little bundle hence the name all in one the petit invite it's basically just a scaled-down version of a classic wedding invitation the classic five five seven which is very straightforward it's just a classic five by seven wedding invitation and then the mini book so this is something that you may opt for if you have a ton of details that you need to give every guest so step one go to their website and figure out which style is for you we ended up choosing the all-in-one invite and this is something that to me was super unique it was very efficient and I feel like that's just my personality it still looks extremely nice we picked one that has like a gold foil to it the idea is you're so neat so the invitation itself is its own envelope invitation and reply card which is something that's just so cool now these are also one of their least expensive options and for me I had to take a setback because paper is something that I love but I knew that I didn't want to spend an arm and a leg on it because at the end of the day it's something everyone throws away this invite was made cheaper because most invites require an outer envelope an inner envelope with the invitation actually inside of it then a reply card and a reply card envelope that requires a stamp and you also need a stamp on the outer envelope and if you're not careful oftentimes your letter can exceed one ounce and then you'll end up having to put two stamps on the outside of your wedding invite so be really mindful because the cost of your invitations are not just the paper goods themselves it's also the postage to actually send them out to give you a little bit more insight into our invites specifically ours only require an outer stamp and then a postcard stamp for the reply card so we're actually saving on the PO stich overall definitely something to think about it's an easy way to save on your budget and even though it's just a little bit probably a couple hundred dollars in the long run you could put that couple hundred dollars toward a groom's cake you could put that couple hundred dollars toward another bouquet you really have to think about how much things cost and weigh your options after you decide on your actual wedding invites go ahead and order samples and this was something that I really really loved about minted they actually give you the option to have $10 worth of samples sent to your door for free for perspective every sample that I looked at between then all-in-one invites and just a classic invite they all are one dollar a couple of them get a little bit more expensive if they're like the breast ones and the papers a little bit thicker on the whole most samples are a dollar so you pretty much have the option to get ten different invitations sent to your door to hold in your hands to feel the weight to make sure that you like the look of it before you officially decide so here is what will come in the mail for you if you opt to get those samples which I do highly encourage because why wouldn't you just to make sure it's something that you absolutely love so the kit came with the five samples that I had picked out this could have been 10 but I didn't want to like overwhelm myself with options and then it also came with these super handy samples so in this envelope right here they give you samples of every different type of paper that minted offers now with the all-in-one invites I was pretty limited to the paper weight that's allowable but if you're doing a very classic 5 by 7 invite then this kit will be extremely helpful for you it also has all of the different colors that you can get the paper listed on the back and this little insert in the back shows you all the different color envelopes that are available to complement your wedding invites so I just thought that this was a really nice very I don't know put together well thought out way for you to see every option that you could possibly have for your wedding invites hold it in your hands and make sure that it's right for you now if you don't have wedding invites in mind yet and you first want to get an idea of the paperweight and everything like that you can order this standalone paper and envelope color kit on its own just an FYI I definitely have a style that I was going for but I picked some as you can see with this foil look and then this right here that didn't have any foiling and this was actually a very close second for us we really did just like the simplicity of this kind of watercolor of eucalyptus in my mind I was looking for wedding invites with eucalyptus because that's the major greenery that we're going to be using throughout the wedding so I wanted everything to kind of fit one theme and have some continuity to it and so that's why all of our wedding invites look SuperDuper similar the one that we ended up choosing is this one it's in the design name called gilded wreath and this is how the all-in-one invites work they arrive on your doorstep like this and on the front it says kindly delivered to and then it has the names and the addresses that you just upload into the minted website more on that later on the back right here you have like my parents return address is what we use because they'll be collecting our RSVPs and when you open it up the top portion right here is your actual invitation and then this part right here is your RSVP card so you just rip that off this will have a postcard stamp and this is already pre addressed with my parents return address then this upper portion is actually what will sit on their fridge when I was looking at wedding invites I was very picky about how it would look just sitting on their fridge there are some that kind of have a design that continues all the way down on to the RSVP card and for those it looked like something had been whacked off the bottom and since that's how it was gonna look on their fridge the longest I was very mindful to choose one that looked very standalone and independent without the RSVP card so just a tip for you there or at least my mindset the samples for me it took the longest to come in I want to say it took like five to seven days for me to get those in the mail and then once I had those we kind of sat on them for a little while while we decided just because our work schedules were a little crazy but once we did the next step is for you to go online and actually customize the invitations with your specific information so all you do is click on the template that you like you customize it with your own name your own return address all of the different dates and location related to your wedding but there are some limitations that I want you to be made aware of so you can change all of the existing text so if you wanted to say something differently or in our case the template used they like British spelling of the word honor with au and I wanted to take that out and I was easily able to change that I was easily able to put mine and Brian's names in the date and location of our wedding but we are having like a buffet style dinner on the template online the RSVP card actually asked the guests to choose a meal option well since we're not having a sit-down dinner I asked my designer to remove the meal options and sent her everything else on the reply card because I wasn't actually able to delete certain fields on the invite so know that there are some nuances in that way that I didn't know about but rest assured it doesn't take a long time for you to get that proof back so that leads me to the next step is your actual proofs of your wedding invite and they promised a 24 hour turnaround from the time that you make a change from the time that you can review it it came back everything looked great I really didn't have any additional issues with my wedding invites but they do say that if you do need to change it again and get another proof that you have to allow another 24 to 48 hours for you to get that updated design back this is also the portion of the process where you add your addresses and I almost completely missed this step I was like reviewing the proof yep everything looks great I was gonna quit confirm and then figure out what to do with the addresses do not forget this step so you'll see an area of the proof where you can manage addresses and when you click that it will give you a template to download you copy and paste all of your collected addresses names everything that it asks for and you simply upload it to the minted website so after you upload everything to the minted site you have to go in and you have to select all contacts that's the only way that they will put a name on to every single wedding invite in your proof and you have the ability to go through and examine every single wedding invite in the addresses before you have to confirm anything and I highly encourage you to go through the addresses and look at them one by one even though it's tedious because there were so many address changes from the time that I collected the addresses which was back in like August September in the time when I was actually creating the invites which was about mid-february people move people's lives change people get married they'll start dating someone new I had every situation in the book that I had to make changes to just wanted to point that out that during this proofing process that's also when you're managing your addresses I did end up ordering some blanks just in case so even though most of my invites will have typed out please kindly deliver to you know Joe and Karen whatever there are some that I may have to handwrite but you definitely want some extra invitations just in case I think we ordered additionally like 8 to 10 so once I approved the digital proof and made sure that my addresses were 100% correct that was on February the 27th and the invites arrived on my doorstep on March the 1st super quick turnaround in my opinion got a very exciting package delivered today my wedding invitations and they included this follow your passion this just looks kind of like a little newsletter about the people that have submitted their work cemented so that's pretty cool and then this entire patch right here came with examples of menu options of thank-you notes that have like the couple's photo on them and they're kind of gilded with little foil press that's what I meant to say their foil press so here's just an example this is obviously not us we're not doing these kind of fancy thank-you cards just because that's really expensive and people totally just throw away thank-you cards so I found some on Amazon but another cool thing that they included here is a description of the artist Petra who actually came up with the design of the wedding invitations that we selected so that was kind of cool because they do source um independent artists and everything to make the invites and then here's what they look like I showed you the all-in-one examples that we had gotten and we did end up going with this one the golden wreath they also included these clear stickers so because we did the all-in-one invites for minted it looks like they gave us a ton of sheets of these clear stickers that are perforated and you can see where we're supposed to apply them so to the flap itself and to the sides just so that in the mailing process it doesn't get bent or ripped or opened in any way when they go to tear them open because they're perforated it will easily tear without ripping the so we'll invite so that's pretty cool I had no idea that those were coming with them I just thought that it would seem more postcard like so very cool very sturdy packaging these are all on like a piece of cardboard on the back wrapped in this really pretty ribbon with a sticker of the person who packed it for me so it was nice this is it super exciting stuff so now all we have to do is add our custom stamps that we made which I'll show you in just a little bit and the little clear stickers that come with the all-in-one invite us keep in mind when you're looking at prices of your invitations that not every guest that you're inviting receives an invitation so for perspective we are inviting 220 ish people but we're only sending 140 invites because you have to think about families you have to think about Plus Ones you know you're not sending separate invitations to every single guest so the invitation cost for me was a nice surprise it was a lot lower than I was estimating in my original budget if that helps you out at all I also wanted to show you some of the extras that we opted to get with our wedding invite and the first extra was customized postage now this is definitely more expensive than the typical 55 cent stamp with an American flag on it that you can get at the post office however because we were going with kind of an unconventional wedding invitation I wanted things to look as nice and as customized and as individualized as humanly possible because my wedding invites were a lot less expensive than a traditional wedding invitation I had room in the budget for these customized stamps I think that these costs like a dollar 35 apiece I actually found a I think it was a 20% off coupon so I actually ended up saving a hundred and sixty dollars on my wedding invites stamps and customized stickers overall so we are doing welcome bags because basically 90% of the people that we're inviting are coming from out of town and so I wanted some sort of customized sticker that also was cohesive with our wedding invitations and our ceremony programs and everything that we ordered so we're going to stick these stickers on the actual welcome bags that's another cool thing about minted is that all of these things that were coordinated with our wedding invites are listed the design of the actual wedding invitation so if you're doing seating charts or if you want place cards they can all be cohesive with your style which i think is really really cool I just felt like this was a great compromise between looking wonderful looking put together looking cohesive still a little bit traditional in our wording but giving it a unique Flair for us and we just love them pick something that you love and that you're excited about much like we did okay so I think I touch on every possible detail in creating your minted wedding invites online so hopefully this video was helpful if you have any questions leave them in the comments below and stick around subscribe join the community and I'll see you in my next one bye [Music]