Personalized Postage for Party Invitations

When you have a special party, an enjoyable way to announce it is with a mailed invitation with personalized postage on the envelope. While no doubt the majority of party invitations just go via phone or email, sending out invitations doesn’t take a lot more time and definitely makes your event stand out.

Personalized postage isn’t hard to make. Just upload an image from your computer to stamps.com (the image to the left of this text also takes you right there) and then you can choose a border color and arrange your picture how you want it. Order online, choosing whether you want regular postage or maybe for  postcards. They’ll soon be in your hands. Naturally, you do have to do this a while before you want to mail the invitations.

You can use personalized postage for all sorts of events: birthday parties, holiday parties, graduation or retirement celebrations, a party when you get back from a big trip, and more. (See other pages on this site with wedding invitation tips.)

• Birthday parties for adults: personalized postage with a picture of the person as a child would be fun, specially if the photo you choose looks enough like the adult that people realize who it is. Putting something like “Look who’s 40!” under the picture could insure that and would be a very good idea if you use a baby picture! If you are using a photo from more than a few years ago, you can scan it in or take a picture of it with a digital camera to get the digital file you need to create the personalized postage.

• Birthday parties for kids: how about a picture of the child doing something fun, like climbing a tree or riding a horse? A close-up of a smiling face always works.

• Graduation party: If the graduate has access to their cap and gown a couple of weeks or more before the big day, you could get a photo in time to have the personalized postage  made. If not, a picture of the person smiling or holding a symbol of their achievement, like a book, would be nice.

• Retirement party: You could do lots of different things with a nice photo of the retiree, perhaps with a partner. The person could be standing in front of an RV, on the golf course, or anything else that suited their interests. With the use of software like Photoshop Elements or another program, you could put them on a golf course in another state!

• After a special trip: Order personalized postage with your favorite photo from the trip.