You’re throwing a major bash for your new graduate. You’re so thrilled that your child finished school that you’d like to invite the whole world. However, you are limiting yourself to people you actually know. As you start to look at all the great graduation invitations ideas, it occurs to you that these customizable invitations are much cheaper than the graduation announcements being sold by the school. On top of that, everyone you would send announcements to is being invited to the celebration anyway. Why not create invitations that do dual duty and use the money you would have spent on those costly announcements to hire your child’s favorite local band to provide live music at the party instead?

Simply add a few additional words to the invitations to have them handle both jobs. For example, an invitation that reads, Please join us as we celebrate John Doe’s graduation, can be altered to say, We are delighted to announce that John Doe is graduating on Monday, June, 2^nd at 2 p.m. Please join us as we celebrate his achievement with a party on…

If you decide you would rather send separate graduation announcements, consider using VistaPrint to make custom postcards that announce the graduation. You’ll still be paying much less than you would for official school announcements and you’ll save on postage.