Wedding Invites in several languages?
I need help finding companies within in the United States that are able to print wedding invites in Russian and English. Many companies that i have contacted and stores like Hallmark for example can not print the invites I want because the russian language doesnt consist of the same letters as english
Do i need to look outside of the US?
What should I do?
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Hi! I'm in Saskatchewan, Canada and I had my invitations done in both Ukrainian and English. Now, this was over 17 years ago, so it should be WAY easier to get things done now. First of all, I had to choose an invitation that could have two sides printed inside - so picture one big piece of paper folded in four - so the two inside pages were clear inside. Had the Ukrainian done on the left, and the English on the right - all the same information.
What we had done: my husband's brother did the Ukrainian typeset on his computer, then took it to a printing shop who put it in the proper format pn disk for the invitation company, along with the English side. The disc was sent off to the company (sorry, don't know which one). When the first set of invitations came back, some of the Ukrainian was cut off, but they redid it at no charge. They couldn't tell the difference because of the Cyrillic. We also had some Ukrainian reply cards printed.
Now, it is all these years later, and there are companies that do all languages, and many do specifically Ukrainian, so there have to be Russian ones out there as well. One company that does Ukrainian in Canada is Yevshan, in the province of Quebec. There have got to be places that do this in the US, particularly in cities with big Russian populations. Check at Russian gift stores, or sites on the web. Wish you luck!
I run a small invitation studio and we have ran into this 1 other time. It can be done, just takes a little extra work.
You will have to go with someone that does custom, low-run invitations. Hallmark or other large invitation studios print hundreds at a time and it's simply not profitable for them.
Find a small studio, they should be able to help
-www.tuttlecreative.com
What I'd do is go to Michael's/Hobby Lobby/AC Moore--or even WalMart and buy a do-it-yourself invitation kit (or as many kits as you need based on how many guests you have; they usually come 25 or 50 invitations, envelopes, reply cards, and reply envelopes to the pack).
Go to a language translation site like http://www.systransoft.com/index.html. Type in the words for your invitations, and it will give you the words you need--with the correct characters.
Good luck and congrats!