Acorn Press

Good people, honest and fair. Quality is very good for the money. Highly recommended. I get all my stuff printed here. No frills and added on overhead like the other big printers in Houston. So far, every project I have had I used these guys.
Tell them Viet sent you heh…

Alright y’all, let me tell you how my wedding invitations came to be. According to my free wedding planner I downloaded from
, (Who pays for this stuff? I printed it out & stuck it in a binder.) I should have ordered my invitations 4 – 6 months ahead of the wedding date. Naturally, I started 6 months ahead of time. That would have the invites printed by Christmas and my bridesmaid sisters would be home for the holiday and they could help me assemble them.
Alas, that was not to be. I wanted something either like a single card with a cool off-​center art deco graphic or something traditional, but cool like a card with pockets so the inserts don’t fall out upon opening (hate that!). My parents wanted the latter with Vietnamese. We went to a couple of printing stores around Chinatown, but that sucked because typically you have to flip through gigantic binders full of cards. I prefer the internet route. We found a card that my mom had received that we both liked. I found a similar style on
that would cost at least $ 1500 for 200 cards.
We ended up taking it here and asking them to do it. Acorn operates their own printers and mix their own ink and everything. They’d been printing this style, but in a verticle rectangular shape, but we wanted a square (my mom said something about a more symmetric, fortuitous shape). They got the proper die-​cut thingy, I bought some paper from Texas Art Supply (Acorn didn’t have a dark enough purple), and voila! See our masterpiece in the photos. In the week after they got the proper die-​cut, they got 3 orders with the new square shape. They totally owe us for the business. (Everyone we’d seen with these cards before printed them at home themselves after buying the proper equipment.)
The cost came out to about $ 4.25-$ 4.50/set (card, invite, 3 inserts, outer envelope) for under 200 assemble-​yourself-​invitations. It took about 3 weeks’ turnaround time because it took 4 – 5 drafts to proof/​edit the English and map and it was competing with Lunar New Year printing. They’re going to be mailed 7 weeks before the date (excellent timing!). No discount for paying via cash or check. If you want to include Vietnamese in a flier or invitation or wedding program, they can do it. I will be returning to print wedding programs, but make sure you have time to spare and edit.
P. S. This shape & weight costs like 88 cents to mail or something. If I fold down the flap of the envelope so that it is flush with the invitation inside, it’s 58 cents to mail. Guess what I’ll be doing!