Whether you plan to go the DIY route with your wedding invitations or to completely work with a professional wedding card printer, it really comes down to you and your personal sense of what's pretty, the kind of a wedding stationery that you choose.
The most basic part of your wedding stationery of course is the card stock that you will use to print your wedding invitations on. When you finally decide to go with a particular kind of card stock, you can use it for every kind of wedding stationery - the save the date card, the RSVP card, the invitation itself, the wedding reception invitation, the thank you note - you get the picture.
The kind of wedding stationery you choose - the card stock in this case - can play an important part in how your invitations turn out. The card stock you choose decides how the invitation will feel in your hand when a wedding guest holds it. It decides how the printing will actually look on the card, how substantial it will feel, what the texture will make the guest feel like, and so on. Some really finicky brides will go so far as to pick a card for how it smells. Which isn't a bad idea, if you would think about it.
Once you have your card stock, you can prepare your wedding stationery in any one of several ways. You can either go to work with a professional printer or have a professional design printed on them, or you could go the DIY route. You could handcraft every invitation painting lettering on by hand, you could go with a rubber stamp idea - stamping all invitations out quickly. What you decide to put the design will determine how your invitations end up looking at the end.
Go to the store to buy wedding stationery, and you'll find that they have card blanks in just about any paper quality, shape, color, size and weight that you could imagine. If you have a large enough order and are willing to pay for it, they'll even custom-make your card stock with kind of size, paper, color or anything else that you ask for.
How heavy the card is that you choose will have a lot to say for how your invitations turn out, and for how much all that will end up costing you. Of course, heavy card is bound to be more expensive. But apart from that, you'll have to be prepared to pay for and better more to have these sent over the mail, too.
As always, picking what's available ready-made off-the-shelf and will make it cheaper for you. Get a card of reasonable ready-made thickness, pick a style and shape that's often used, and you'll save money.
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