Shadi card price in Pakistan 2026: printed card rates in Karachi and Lahore vs a digital card

People searching 'shadi card price in Karachi' or 'shadi card price in Lahore' usually get a per-card number from a printer and a surprise a week later. This guide lays out the whole bill: the printed shadi card price list as it stands in the market in 2026, the parts the per-card price leaves out, a worked example for 200 guests, and what a digital invitation card costs in Pakistan for the same wedding. The printed figures are approximate market estimates from printers in Karachi and Lahore; your own printer's quote is the number to put in the sum.

Printed shadi card price list, approximate (2026)

• Simple single card, offset print, plain envelope: about Rs. 40 to Rs. 100 per card.
• Mid-range card with a textured or foiled sheet, insert and printed envelope: about Rs. 150 to Rs. 400 per card.
• Premium boxed card with laser-cut sleeve, ribbon, several inserts or a mithai box: about Rs. 600 to Rs. 2,000 per card, and more for custom boxes.
• Design charge: Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 8,000 for layout and Urdu typesetting, often with a second charge for a second proof.
• Minimum quantity: most printers quote for 100 or 200 cards; the per-card rate rises sharply below that.

What the per-card price does not include

• Envelopes and writing or printing the names on each one.
• A reprint when a venue, time or spelling changes after printing. Even 50 cards at Rs. 150 is Rs. 7,500.
• Delivery: petrol and a driver for a week in Karachi or Lahore traffic, or courier charges for out-of-city and overseas guests.
• Time: a week to print, a few days for proofs, a week or more to deliver.
• The cards that never arrive: the ones left in a drawer because the family was out, and the second trip to deliver them.

Shadi card price in Karachi vs Lahore

The two cities price about the same. Karachi's printing hubs around Saddar and Pakistan Chowk and Lahore's around Urdu Bazaar and Gulberg quote the same rough bands; premium boxed cards cost more in both because the boxes are imported or hand-made. The difference is delivery: both cities are big enough that hand-delivering 200 cards is a week's work, and a courier for guests in Islamabad, Faisalabad or abroad adds Rs. 200 to Rs. 2,500 per card. City notes for venues and traffic are in the Karachi and Lahore guides.

A worked example for 200 guests

Take 200 households and a mid-range card that comes to Rs. 150 each with the envelope once printing is included: Rs. 30,000 before one card is delivered. Add Rs. 5,000 for design and proofs and Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 10,000 for delivery and courier. A reprint of 50 cards after the hall changes adds Rs. 7,500. The total lands near Rs. 45,000 to Rs. 50,000, and it took two weeks. A premium boxed card for the same list is Rs. 150,000 and up. The longer version of this sum, with the parts people forget, is in printed shadi cards vs e-invites: the real cost for 200 guests.

Digital invitation card price in Pakistan

• The card: one design, paid once. Rs. 1,999 for every design. Three months of access and unlimited edits included.
• Private guest links by name and seat count, optional: 30 for Rs. 1,500, 120 for Rs. 3,000, unlimited for Rs. 5,000. Without a pack, one general link for everyone.
• Setup service, optional: Rs. 1,500 and we enter everything from your WhatsApp message.
• Extending access after three months: Rs. 1,500 for three more.
• Custom design drawn from scratch: from Rs. 25,000, quoted per brief.
• Delivery: on WhatsApp, the same day, free. Reprint after a change: there is none; the links update.

For the same 200 households with unlimited private links the digital total is Rs. 6,999, or Rs. 8,499 with the setup service; with one general link and no pack it is Rs. 1,999. The line-by-line version is in what a digital wedding invitation actually costs and the live list is on pricing.

Same price in every city

A digital card costs the same in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar or a village in Sindh, and the same for a guest in Dubai or Manchester, because nothing is printed or carried. That is the part of the sum that changes most for families whose guests are spread out: the 300th guest, the overseas cousin and the reprint all cost nothing.

How to cut the printed bill without losing the gesture

Most families now do both: 20 to 30 printed cards for the elders and the closest relatives, delivered by hand with mithai, and a link for everyone else. At Rs. 400 a card that is Rs. 12,000 for the printed few, plus the digital card. You keep the visit where it means something and drop the week of driving. The honest comparison of the two, beyond money, is in digital or printed.

Aam sawalat

• Sab se sasta shadi card kitne ka hai? Printed, taqreeban Rs. 40 se shuru, lekin 100–200 ka minimum, design aur delivery alag. Digital card Rs. 1,999 se, jitne mehman ho.
• Kya digital card ki qeemat mehmanon ki tadaad se badalti hai? Card ki nahi. Sirf private links ka pack (30/120/unlimited) chunna hota hai.
• Payment kaise hoti hai? Bank transfer; tafseel checkout par milti hai.
• Agar card bheja hi na ho aur irada badal jaye? 14 din ke andar refund, agar link share nahi hua. Refund policy dekhein.

To see what the Rs. 1,999 buys, open digital shadi card, or try Elegant Wedding with your own names for free before you pay anything.

Khud card banane ka tareeqa: shadi card kaise banaye.