Where can I order customized red envelopes online?

February 12, 2013 1:32 PM

It's Lunar New Year time and now that I'm hitched, I'm on the giving end of the 利是 exchange. Looking for recommendations for websites that will let you make your own customized red envelopes. I'm in the USA.

My relatives either get those mass-produced ones or from an Asian bank, so it's always a hassle trying to identify which red envelope came from which relation. I figure it'd be cool for us to have our own customized version so that people will always know where that money came from. Great for all the other occasions when we have to give out money too!

I'm looking for someplace online that'll let you upload your own artwork so you'll get it as a gold foil design on red ~4"x~2.75" envelope. The best I could come up with is using this Envelopes.com one, but it's probably not the same shape/template/paper-type/texture that I'm familiar with.

Thanks in advance!

posted by Seboshin to shopping (3 answers total)

This might help (I hope you can read Chinese).
posted by acidic at 1:39 PM on February 12

Instead of getting custom envelopes, what about getting standard envelopes and custom stickers to seal them. (I haven't used the linked company personally, but I've seen the name a few times online ... )

My apologies if this is derailing too much from your custom envelope question.
posted by sciencegeek at 2:58 PM on February 12

My brother in law ordered custom hongbaos a decade ago and they are still giving them out because it's only about 30 packets max each year. They went to a regular print shop and had them print a custom job (their name in swirly letters on the front) but gold on thin shiny red paper on a small run is pricey. I would go with sciencegeek's solution first as a trial run.

You could also print your own using a template like this to customize them.

BTW, here some people write a note - their name and the recipient's - on the back of the standard hongbaos packet. And if they don't, we write the giver's name on the back of the hongbao so we can remember who gave what.
posted by viggorlijah at 5:05 PM on February 12