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Our Invitations Are In!

June 28th, 2006 @ 10:48 am by Mrs. Grasshopper

Last night we picked up our invitations from Peter Kruty Editions in Brooklyn. Peter gave me the grand tour of the studio and Kat wrapped up our invites. When she showed me a sample, I thought they looked great and said so. However, it wasn’t until I got home that I realized how much in love I am with our invites! I think I might like the invitations more than my wedding gown. I am so impressed with their letterpress work. I have to write Peter and Kat today to give them the appropriate adoration I so quickly walked out of the studio with last night.

The design of the invitations is a complete rip-off of something I had seen in Martha Stewart a few months ago, but I wanted a different dog (that looked like Sasha!) and bocce players instead of the other sporty kids the designer picked. My sister-in-law drew the little vintage graphics for us, which came out awesome, I think. In the end we opted to use the silly bocce kids on the rehearsal dinner invitations instead and use more traditional wedding graphics.

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Our wedding is in September, which means our invites have to get out asap, but we are also moving on Saturday and still have an entire apartment to pack up by Friday night. What’s wrong with us?! We needed to make the decision of what needed to happen first: assemble and prepare the invitations or pack? The invites won over! Yay! And Mr. Grasshopper helped me all night with slicing up our custom labels.

I would prepare the individual labels on the computer:

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And he would slice them up. Check him out hard at work. Doesn’t he look thrilled?

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Anyway, check out Peter Kruty if you are interested in letterpress work. They were so, so great to work with and the invitations came out awesome (I think so anyway :)).

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9 Responses to “Our Invitations Are In!”

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joy

i’m so obsessed w/ letterpress. i’m trying to figure out how to have a budget wedding (my goal is to spend under $400 on my appearance) but… you have just destroyed any chance i could skimp on this b/c your invites are so lovely. now i just need a friend who can draw…

 
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daisy028

LOVE them! I am currently working with Kat at PKE as well. She has been a dream to work with thus far. If I could only decide on paper, we could get the ball rolling!

Congrats on your beautiful invites!! Your guests will adore them.

 
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Teresa

Hi, I’m curious as to how you are preparing your custom mailing labels. Are you printing onto those Avery label sheets that are not precut into separate labels? Thanks..

 
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Miss Grasshopper

Yes, we bought the 8.5 x 11 label sheets by avery: http://www.avery.com/us/Main?action=product.Details&catalogcode=WEB01&node=10211246&productcode=8165, at Staples.

I designed the labels in Illustrator (no mail merging options unfortunately), printed them up and then trimmed them with an x-acto knife on a self-healing mat in hopes to save our coffee table.

 
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Miss Daisy

love the letterpress and the dancing bride and groom motif! this post perfectly indulges my rampant invite curiosity (i am just now in the invite choosing stage). i am almost definitely doing letterpress so will be sure to check out this studio.

 
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Hannah

I love the letterpress. I am officially letterpress obsessed at this point. Love the design — the cake, the dancing couple, the dog!!!

 
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Jen

I remember seeing those similar ones in Martha Stewart and loving them. Very jealous. :)

 
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Marisa

Love the invites!

If you wouldn’t mind, could you post a pic of the label on the envelope (you can block out the actual address)? I’m just trying to figure out how I want to address my envelopes. I’m not sure how a label would look, but it looks like you designed it nicely and I would love to see an example.

Thanks

 
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a

I am fairly jealous — my fiance and I LOVED the foundry, but we’ve ended elsewhere for a few reasons not to be gotten into here…

 


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