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I recieved an invitation with a very similar theme... of course, I also was enlisted to help make them and mine was never even sent in the mail.
The method we used was pretty interesting. Handmade sheets of paper, 11x14 was bought from a little old lady in shop... it looked and felt old and like parchment. It was a couple bucks a sheet, but we managed to get 9 perfectly sized invites per sheet. Once we realized that no one had a printer that could handle that sized paper, we set up a repeating text block (a little shorter then yours) and took it to a printer. Printing cost: 25 cents a sheet, no typesetting charge required. We didn't cut them out, we used rulers to tear them, so the edges were straight, but rough.
The best part was the intricate celtic borders. The bride bought a rolling stamp with the design from ebay. Roll it on an ink pad, roll it around the edges, and it looked great. The groom had an authentic family heirloom seal, and wax was used to seal the folded invitations- of course, we had to re-do all the ones that seemed to thick/heavy for a one stamp envelope.
All said, they were pretty amazing invitations. I think everyone commented on them. One of those rolling stamps would make it look more authentic, less computer made.
Also, when we were recently finalizing the guest list for my upcoming wedding, we had a realization. You probably already had it. Although about 130 people are coming, enough of them are couples that we actually only need 68 invitations.
Good luck either way.
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