Custom Invitation Design Cost?

I personally think it depends on how custom it is. Are they just uploading a template and adding your info to it? Are they water coloring the entire invite for you to print later, etc.? For example, I looked at a person who had their pricing:

Invitations - $550 design fee
RSVP - $350 design fee
Info card - $350 design fee

Thank you card - $150 design fee

But again, thats just one person and also depends on quality and what they're doing. Sorry I couldn't be more help

I'm a graphic designer and I'm creating my own invites. Designs for wedding invitations are pretty easy to conceptualize and execute. I personally wouldn't charge more than $60 for the double-sided card and $20 for the rsvp card (since it'll be an extension of the invite). It wouldn't take me longer than 2 hours to complete.

I'm a designer as well and of course it depends on how detailed everything is but for a basic wedding invitation, it shouldn't take very long. The prices ACD posted are pretty insane, I would never pay that much EVER. And honestly if I offered to design something for a friend, I personally wouldn't charge anything. if they insisted on paying me, I'd say, just take me out to dinner and we will call it even :-) But that's just me. I'd ask your friend what they would like, if they aren't coming up with a number, maybe offer $100? Unless you are having them do something crazy personal design wise (like a custom art drawing of you and your FS or something that is going to take them hours upon hours to design), $100 is more than generous in my eyes.

Thank you for the input! We really just want something simple; black background, simple sans-serif text, and a couple gold off-center shapes for accent. There are like 50 pre-made, free designs out there that we’d be totally happy with since we’re really not that picky about it, but I want to give my friend the opportunity to flex her newly-honed design skills

She poked around online to find “going rates” for design, and thinks that $125 would be a “discount” for a friend... I don’t know whether or not that seems appropriate, but I can afford it and I’m in no position to contest it since I’m not in a design field myself.

Here’s hoping everything goes smoothly and I can easily get them printed!

I paid $60 on fiverr.com for invitation, RSVP, and website card design plus thank you cards. We had them printed at a local print shop.

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Was that $60 for the whole lot of cards or $60 each?