Wedding Blog

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.

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:

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

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 :)).