The Quinceanera Guide For Invitations, Dresses and All About Sweet 15, Quince Anos

When it comes to quinceanera invitations, if you want a more creative and custom quinceanera invitation, you can print them yourself or if you don’t have the time and want a more professional looking quinceanera invitation then buy them from your local shop.  Let’s explore the advantages and disadvantage of both scenarios.  Today many quinceaneras sometimes want the perfect quinceanera invitation, and sometimes this means printing and building them yourself.  If you have  time and are a little creative then go for it, create your own quinceanera invitations.  Where shoud you start?  Well, the first question you should ask yourself or your parents is.  How many quinceanera invitations are we going to need? Don’t decide to  construct your own quinceanera invitations  to save money, because that’s a myth. Custom built invitations are more expensive.  Why?  You have to buy papers, glue, printer ink, ribbons, envelopes, glitters, and any other extra stuff you might want to put on them. And you have to invest a lot of  time.

Ok, Let’s make some quinceanera invitations:

The key to making your own quinceanera invitations is the actual design of the invitation. Try to find some samples online of something you might be able to do and go for it. If you know a little graphic design then the sky is your limit. For this post I’m going to look for a quinceanera invitation, not to hard to do, but one that will give you an idea of building your own. Also remember that for custom invitations, you are limited to the quality of your own printer.  If you have a photo printer then your in good hands if you’re printing a photo with your quinceanera invitations, laser printers are good for invitations lettering but not for pictures.

Ok, lets decide on the quinceanera invitation size: Quinceanera invitations can be any size, but you should remember you need envelopes which fit. The usual quinceanera invitation sizes are  5 ½ by 7 ½ inches for classic style.  Let’s use this size for our quinceanera invitation.  One basic but very important tip for creating your quinceanera invitation is that whatever software or program you are gonna use to do the actual design or layout of your quinceanera  invitation, this program has to let you change its document size. So let’s go ahead and do that I’m gonna be using Photoshop, unfortunately photoshop is a hard program for many people but use the software you’re most confortable with.

Crate a new document for your quinceanera invitations with the dimensions of 5.5 x 7.5 inches.  If it ask you for resolution and color mode, then choose 300 for resolution and CMYK for color mode. Remember to put 7.5 for the width. Save your new file and don’t forget to save every 10 minutes. For now on, I won’t go onto many details since every program is different but the idea remains.

Let’s create the quinceanera invitation background.  The easiest to do is to choose the color matching the theme of your party.  Blue, pink, red, green.  The text or font has to be white or light if your background color is too dark, in other words there has to contrast between background and text color. A good design does not have all the colors of the rainbow.  Choose up to 3 colors and that’s it.

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For the invitation above I used the font named “Vivaldi”, it looks pretty good.   A good thing about custom invitations is that you can print them both in English and Spanish.  Something that would be very expensive if you went the other way. In this quinceanera invitation I did not include the  recepcion info because I was too lazy but it usually goes in there too, this is where you save a little money, and don’t print reception cards.  Reception cards look nice  but many people don’t use them to save a little money. Invitation wording samples will be posted later in a different post, so keep coming back for them.  For text layout try to center all your text, you won’t go wrong with this, but you are always welcome to experiment, besides this is a custom quinceanera invitation, isn’t it.  Many quinceaneras don’t want to show their dress on their invitation, so any other picture will do.  For this kind of quinceanera invitations you don’t need any special paper.  Any white paper will do, but keep in mind that the picture will come up better with photo quality paper if you are using an inkjet printer. But this kind of paper is thick and maybe you don’t want that. Other options are to print your quinceanera invitations on translucent paper, keep in mind that this is a more expensive paper and that sometimes the ink won’t stick very well. There is a special translucent paper for computer printing but again is more expensive.  Translucent paper works well with laser printers, but laser printers don’t print pictures too well unless the printer is very expensive, but they are getting better.  Home users usually have inket printers not laser printers. If you’re on a budget and still want to do custom invitations, then try  to print something like this:

Quinceanera Invitations

The quinceanera invitation above uses 50% less ink and therefore is cheaper, this method looks great on translucent paper. Technically what I did was to decrease the opacity of the background and picture to 50%.  Another way to get this effect is to increase the brightness of the picture, it is not the same thing but is pretty close, and most picture programs have brightness controls.

This is all for quinceanera invitations for now, but I will be adding more to this post later.  Don’t forget to bookmark us.

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Today you will find hundreds of quinceanera invitations.  With or without your picture. If price is a concern try to go without picture, since invitations with pictures are sometimes a little pricier. Prices range from $85 non folding cards to $160 per 100 invitations.  Always order 25 extra because reordering 25 later will be expensive. Always order them with plenty of time in advance, If you have already the time and address of the religious ceremony and the time and address of the reception, then you are ready to go. This quinceanera invitation is flat printed, meaning that the lettering is not raised. This is very common with quinceanera invitations with a printed photo. Another point to keep in mind is that for the baby photo that goes on top of this invitation, you need to have permission from the photographer otherwise the printer will reject your order. This does not matter if your parents took the photo themselves. Keep coming back to our blog, for more quinceanera invitations.