Wedding invitation question...have things really changed this much?

I'm going to be getting married soon, and personally my budget is VERY tight, pretty much whatever I need to buy for my wedding is going to be coming out of me and my fiance's Future living expenses. So If there was a place i could cut corners with. ESPECIALLY on the invitations I would certainly do so. I understand the whole scrapbooking thing that people do with these kind of things, but ya know, it's really up to the bride and she can do whatever she wants. And like the other person said, I would appreciate the person putting the registry stuff in with the invite. It would make things so much easier.