Minted Review: Wedding Invitation Sites

Minted is a creator-driven marketplace that began in 2007. Their community of artists come from all 50 states and over 100 countries and range from illustrators and designers to fine artists, stay-at-home moms, and first-timers. Minted's platform allows independent artists and customers to connect by opening design challenges, then letting customers vote and crowdsourcing to pick the best designs. The winning designs are listed on Minted and the artists receive ongoing commission as people buy their work.

Design diversity

The creativity and variety of designs at Minted is unmatched. After your wedding when other big occasions arise, we highly recommend looking through their invitations for parties and showers, thank you cards, and marketplace inventory with things like stationery accessories, wedding day accessories, decor, favors, gifts, and more. Since so many artists of different backgrounds come together to make up the full selection of products available at Minted, you'll get incredible diversity in design.

Invitations for every style

There are over 1,400 beautiful wedding invitations to browse at Minted. You'll probably find yourself torn between a bunch of them since the options are so fun, so it may help to filter the inventory by style (classic & formal, simple & minimalist, botanical, modern, vintage, rustic, bold & typographic, and bohemian). You could also filter by price, printing type, style, color, season, venue, and shape. Not all invitations are rectangles, so you can stray from the norm with some arch-style invitations, rounded edges, waved frames, curved edges, and more.

Free samples

You can order samples of a bunch of the invitations you're considering if you want to see the colors and feel the paper texture in-person before making a purchase. Just choose the card you like, then select "get a free sample" and add it to your cart.

No extensive customization

We had the hardest time choosing our favorite Minted wedding invitation, but when we finally nailed one down, we got to customizing. You won't be able to edit the actual design or drag around the individual pieces of the artwork, but rather you'll be able to make some small changes to colors and add your own information. At Minted, you should be able to find a design that you love enough to not need to make many changes to it. We were able to select the card size, silhouette shape, and paper type before adding the information about our wedding date, venue address, and more. You can also choose to add a photo to the front or back of the card, depending on the design you choose.

Priced with a purpose

If you decide to go ahead and order wedding invitations from Minted, sign up for their marketing emails. This will get you a 20% off discount code and will end up saving you a good amount on your order. You'll quickly find that Minted is not the cheapest choice you could go with for wedding invitations. That's because you're paying a bit more for the process - Minted and the artist have to make money, after all - and most invitations come with envelopes, guest address printing, a wedding website, consultation with a stationery expert, digital proofs, and unlimited rounds of edits. The more invitations you order, the better your price will be. For example, as long as we ordered 100 or more of the invitations we chose, they were $2.50 each. But if we ordered as few as 15, the cost was $6 each. So it's in your best interest to order quite a few invitations here.

See shipping options at checkout

Before you even start customizing your invitations, you'll see a date listed for the earliest possible time you could receive your order. For us, we could get our invitations as soon as 8 days from the day we placed the order if we chose expedited shipping. All the specific shipping options will be shown to you at checkout and will be based on your zip code and if you're willing to pay extra to have your order rushed.

No returns on customizations

Since you're customizing the art you purchase through Minted, you can't return it. However, we're sure the company would work with you if for some reason they misprinted something or your order arrived differently than it appeared online. If you aren't happy, you can email Minted with your order number, a brief description of the issue, a photo illustrating the problem, and how you'd like the issue resolved.

Fantastic ratings

Minted has a flawless "A+" rating from the Better Business Bureau. Even better, they have phenomenal reviews from customers who had a great experience with their customer service team, loved the quality of the products, were thrilled with the selection of designs, and so much more. There are thousands of people who have positive things to say about working with Minted.

Worth the price and wait

Minted has easily earned its reputation as a top place to buy wedding invitations. As soon as you reach their website and start looking at their options, you'll understand why. They have the most beautiful designs we've found anywhere, and we love the idea of supporting small businesses and artists along the way. You may find that Minted is slightly out of your budget or the invitations take a little longer than through some other retailers, but we believe that the quality and designs here make it worth it.

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