DIY wedding stationery ideas are some of our favourites here at Wedding Ideas and we love nothing more than seeing the unusual ideas our real brides have come up with.
Here, we reveal 10 of our favourite ideas to give your wedding stationery a unique twist and help you stay in budget at the same time!
Top 10 DIY wedding stationery ideas
Tasty treats
If you love to bake, then why not treat your guests to some yummy homemade cookies? Ice their name onto the design and you have a cute place name and budget-friendly wedding favour ideas in one!
Map it out
Do you and your h2b love travelling? A vintage map makes the perfect backdrop for a table plan! Simply pin a card for each table to the map and you’re done.
Save the date
Help your guests prepare for your wedding in style with unusual save the date ideas such as fridge magnets, pens or badges. DIY kits are readily available in craft shops or online so get creative today.
Beachy bargains
If you’re having a beach theme, the perfect DIY wedding stationery idea involves using pebbles or shells as place names. Simply write your guests names on them with a marker pen and there you have it!
Menu mats
One of our talented real brides made fab paper place mats for guests with the menu printed on them! Such a simple idea, which allows you to add extra interest to your tables – great if you don’t have much budget for other decorations.
Country chic
Country-garden themes are the best for trying your hand at some DIY wedding stationery. One of our real brides wrote out her guests’ place names on leaves in gold pen and pinned them to apples. So simple and cost effective, too.
Perfect plan
Rather than blowing the budget on a printed table plan why not use a simple chalkboard to illustrate your arrangements? Get some pretty coloured chalk and get to work – in your best handwriting of course!
Get personal
For a personal DIY wedding stationery idea, get out your old photo albums and use a picture of each guest as their place card. This is a lovely way of personalising your day and is a good talking point for guests.
Very vintage
The birdcage has become one of the most popular features of vintage weddings over the past year, being used as table centres, hanging decorations and even on stationery designs. One of our favourite ideas is the use of a wire birdcage memo board to hang table plan cards with pegs.
Say thank you
Say a personal thank you to your guests for their wedding gifts with homemade cards. Get your wedding photographer to snap you holding up a thank you sign, and use the picture on blank cards from a craft shop. Alternatively, if you asked for honeymoon contributions or vouchers, why not write thank you in the sand and use a photo from the honeymoon on the cards?
Have you got any DIY wedding stationery ideas you’d like to share?
Let us know in the comments below.
To add to your idea of using a photo of the guest as their place card, a nice idea is, if there is a glass top on the table, insert photos underneath the glass of all guests sitting at that table.