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Evorrah vs
doing it yourself.
The most common alternative to commissioning a designer is not another company — it is a Saturday, a template library and a lot of determination. Sometimes that is exactly right. This is where it stops being right.
Should I design my own invitations or commission them?
Design them yourself if you enjoy it, if the piece count is small, and if nobody will mind that the menu is a near-match rather than a match. Commission when the piece count grows — because the difficulty of DIY is not making one beautiful card, it is making sixteen pieces that look like the same event, and getting each one to a printer at the right specification.
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Where DIY actually breaks.
Almost anyone can make one good-looking invitation with a modern design tool. The first card is not the problem.
The problem arrives at piece four. The menu is a different width, so the motif has to be redrawn rather than resized. The place card is too small for the typeface at the size that made the invitation work. The signage needs the same design at a metre wide. Each of those is a judgment about proportion, and made one at a time, on different evenings, they drift. The result is a set of pieces that are clearly related and clearly not the same hand.
The second problem is print. Screen design and print specification are different disciplines — bleed, trim, colour space, ink coverage, the fold. A file that looks perfect on a laptop can come back from a press wrong in ways that cannot be fixed once 200 are printed.
Which is yours?
| If your reason is… | What you actually want | Is Evorrah it? |
|---|---|---|
| "I enjoy this and I have time" | A design tool and a good template. | No. Enjoy it — genuinely. |
| "I need three pieces and a small guest list" | DIY, or the smallest commission. | Maybe. Our Starter is three pieces from $149. |
| "I have twelve pieces and no idea about bleed" | One hand across all of it, files a printer can accept. | Yes. Every piece ships print-ready with a specification sheet. |
| "I have started and it is not looking right" | Someone to do it properly. | Yes, and bring what you made — it is useful as a brief. |
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What DIY genuinely gives you
Control, cost and the pleasure of having made it. You can change your mind at midnight and nobody has to be told. For a small event, or for somebody who likes designing, that is a real and sufficient answer.
With Evorrah
What a commission gives you
Hours back, and coherence you cannot easily buy with effort: one design language, proportioned per format by somebody who does this daily, delivered print-ready. Plus four documents most people never think to ask for — an event identity guide, a vendor guide, social assets and a printing guide.
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What it costs, both ways.
A commission is $149 to $3,099 depending on the occasion and how many pieces you want, paid once, with the guest platform included.
DIY costs whatever your tool costs plus your evenings. That second number is the one people underestimate — not because designing is hard, but because deciding is: which typeface, at what size, on what stock, at what trim, sixteen times over.
Use our tools even if you DIY. The planning tools are free and need no account — how many invitations you actually need (it is per household, not per guest, and most people order nearly double), seating capacity, RSVP deadlines, wording for every occasion. They are useful whoever designs the cards.
Straight answers.
Can I bring my own design for you to finish?
Will I get editable files?
What if I need a piece I did not order?
Do you print?
See what sixteen pieces in one hand looks like.
Every finished commission, openable piece by piece — the coherence is the thing to look for.
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