Many couples planning a wedding today are searching for inexpensive wedding ideas. The tighter or smaller your overall budget, the more imperative it becomes to plan and stick to a detailed budget. That way you won’t go too far astray in your spending. As a general rule you can expect the following budget breakdown. Your reception will take up approximately 50% of the total budget for the wedding, with another 40% being equally split among bridal attire, photography, music, and flowers. The last 10% will be split among the wedding invitations, postage, and other miscellaneous expenses. Considering the average wedding costs well over $20,000, cutting even 1% here or there can make huge savings for you.

Many couples start out thinking that they need professionally printed wedding invitations. Homemade invitations used to be a symbol of tackiness, but these days that has changed. Modern color printers and graphic design software has made it very possible to create dazzling invitations on your own computer and print them at home or at a local print shop such as Kinko’s for way less money than a typical printer would charge. In fact you may want to start with a great wedding invitation kit you can print at home.

Wedding invitations kits are quite complete. These kits come with the invitation, RSVP cards and envelopes and some even have nice wedding invitation jackets or ribbons that really make them special. You can find many of these print at home wedding invitation kits at Eye Candy Gift where their wedding shop carries just about everything you need for a fantastic wedding at an affordable price.