Communion Invitations

What Are Communion Invitations

A communion invitation is a flat card that tells family and godparents the date, the parish and the Mass time of a First Communion or Holy Communion, with the reception details on the same card. You print it full color in 3 sizes, from a 4.25" x 5.5" classic up to a 6" x 6" square, on any of 20 stocks, and mail it in a matching white wove envelope. Families keep these on display after the day, which a text message never gets.

Communion invitations have close relatives in the range. If you are marking the same sacrament for a child, the First Communion Invitations share the same sizes and stocks, and for the earlier sacrament the Baptism Invitations are the natural companion. For any general occasion in between, the Invitation Cards carry the same build.

What Sizes Do Communion Invitations Come In

Pick from three set sizes. The 4.25" x 5.5" classic is the default, slips into a standard envelope and costs the least to mail. The 5" x 7" standard leaves room for a photo of the child and a note about the reception, and the 6" x 6" square reads formal in a stack of rectangles. A custom size runs up to 6" x 7", and the price follows the size you pick.

Design it without a designer

Open one of our professionally built design templates and replace its sample text with the child's name, the parish, the Mass time and the reception, then set the colors and the photo in the online editor. Pick a warm serif for a traditional church invitation or a clean modern face for the reception card, and the template keeps your spacing and bleed correct.

Already have your artwork? Skip the editor and download a press-ready blank instead. Each blank template is built at the real trim size with the 1/8" bleed and safe margin already drawn in, so your design never crowds the cut. Grab the size that matches your order below, drop your art in, and upload.

What Paper Stocks and Finishes Can You Choose

Twenty stocks are on the list, and for a church invitation the choice usually runs between quiet and shiny. Everyday 14pt or 16pt gloss and uncoated covers keep the cost down, and the 24pt ultra thick gloss gives the card real weight in the hand. White linen and premium white linen add a woven texture you can feel with your fingertips, recycled kraft and cream uncoated read warm and natural for a church setting, and the metallic pearl stocks in ice, champagne, silver, and gold catch light like foil without the foil price. There is even a 10pt StarLustre platinum for a subtle shimmer.

A High Gloss UV Coating deepens a photo of the child or a gold cross in the artwork, and Standard leaves the stock's own surface. Ink runs 4/0 for the front only, 4/1 to add black type on the back, or 4/4 for full color on both sides, so the back can carry the parish address and the reception while the front keeps the photo, and the card stays on as a keepsake.

How Much Do Communion Invitations Cost

Communion invitations start at $19.77 per set of 25, about 79 cents a card, and the per-card price keeps dropping as the quantity climbs toward 100,000. A set of 700 runs $106.55, around 15 cents each, and a full 100,000-card run lands at $2,255.62, roughly 2 cents apiece, across 41 quantity tiers in all. Drag the slider below to the size of your guest list and read the set total and the per-card cost at that count.

Do Communion Invitations Come With Envelopes

Yes. Turn on the matching white wove envelope option in the configurator and the envelopes ship with the invitations, sized to the card you picked. Rounded corners at a 3/8" or 1/8" radius soften the card and keep a heavy stock's corners from bruising in the post. And before anything prints, you decide how careful to be: go straight to production to move fast, request a free online proof to check your file on screen, or order a next-day hardcopy proof to hold the real thing first.

If you need standalone or extra envelopes to match a mixed set, the Invitation Envelopes are their own product, and the classic Invitation Cards cover the same build in a general-purpose card.

How Do Communion Invitations Compare to Other Invitations

Communion invitations are the value pick for a milestone card that keeps its price low. If you are weighing the child-focused First Communion card, the earlier baptism sacrament, or a general-purpose invitation, the chart below lines up communion invitations against their closest relatives so you can compare the starting price on each before you choose.

How Fast Can You Get Communion Invitations Printed

Communion invitations print on a 3 business day standard turnaround, and when the date sneaks up you can move that to 2-day, Next-Day, or even Same-Day production. Each step buys back time for a set percentage on top of the base price, so you only pay for speed when you actually need it. Same Day orders need to be approved by the daily cutoff to ship that day. Compare every turnaround tier and see exactly what the rush adds before you pick, and know that every 4OVER4 order is backed by the five Gold Standard guarantees. Communion dates are usually set months ahead, so most families order on the standard 3 days and mail four to six weeks before the day.

See the Rest of Our Invitations

Communion invitations are one stop in a much larger lineup, and you can scan the full print product range or the complete invitations printing family any time. If a themed occasion, a folded card, or a heavier premium stock would serve you better, each option shows its own starting price and links straight to its product page.

Print Your Communion Invitations Today

At 4OVER4.COM, quality comes first, and it is backed by a satisfaction guarantee and 25+ years of printing since 1999. A card on white linen or metallic pearl, sent in its matching envelope, is the one a family keeps on the mantel long after the Mass. Need them before the celebration? Our Same-Day production keeps you covered. Print your communion invitations today.

Wording a First Communion Invitation

A communion invitation carries more fixed information than a party card, so set the order before the design. The child's full name comes first, then the line that names the sacrament, then the parish and the Mass time, then the reception with its own address if it is somewhere else, and the RSVP last. Parents usually host, so the top line reads as an invitation from them, and godparents can be named on the back. Print 4/4 and the back panel takes the reception details, a short prayer or a verse, and a photo of the child, which is why the 5" x 7" is the size to pick when a photo is going on. Use the 4/1 option when the back only needs black type. Start from a layout in the design templates, change the names and dates in the editor, and read the free online proof once for spelling before the set prints, because a parish name is the one line nobody can correct after the fact.