When you have decided the exact wording for your funeral invitation you will now need to select shape and size, quality of paper as well as graphics if you are going to use them. There are hundreds of sample templates available from your local printing companies. Your Funeral Director will help you when making the arrangements. You may choose to create your own funeral invitation if you wish using samples templates from the various sites available from the internet.
There are three choices when organising the production of your invitations as follows: Printing Options
Do it yourself
You might consider reproducing your own invitations or getting someone from your family to reproduce them for you.
On-line Internet Option
There are a number of on-line services available with a wide range of options available, they may also prove less expensive than producing them yourself. On-line services provide actual templates where you simply provide all of the information are produced and shipped in a few days.
Professional Printing Company
Local printers provide hundreds of templates that can easily be modified to suit your needs and because they are “taken off the shelf”, they are quite inexpensive to produce. The printer can also provide bespoke services if you want to design your own personalized invitation.
The cost of producing your invitation for all of the above options will depend on the following:
- The number of invitations you will be sending out
- Color and graphics used
- The quality of paper you will use e.g. Gram weight, matt or gloss paper finish
- Time-scale and how long it will take to design the invitation