If I am understanding correctly, the setup is putting the invitation together and putting them in envelopes and sending them out? You can totally save money and do that your yourself (with the help of your friends). We had a system down when we did it for my sister. We bought pizzas and had wine while about 8 of us did this. It took a couple of hours, but saved a lot of money. But, be careful, I ended up with small cuts on my cuticles from the envelope hitting them over and over and I got ruined an invitaiton because I didn't know that I was bleeding.