[jing]

I'm curious - you say,

"A do-it-yourself wedding invitation kit costs $45, while professional wedding invitations are hundreds or thousands of dollars."

How much of that "hundreds or thousands" is in the actual printing vs. the design + margin?

[kevinpet]

Printing is hundreds to over one thousand for normal sane number of invitations. This is for 150x invitation, reply card, envelope, reply envelope. My wife did a barter deal with a printer (did their holiday card and calendar) to get ours printed, and even then they were simple.

Quality printing doesn't scale down (the cost is making the plate).