Wedding Blog

I blogged about my invitations many moons ago when trying to figure out which design layout to use. However, I haven’t given y’all the up front and proper scoop when it comes to the invitations (in part because I’d been procrastinating taking the pictures and uploading them to share).

Several months ago, I contacted a letterpress invitation designer who created another bee’s wedding invitations. He was going to do ours too, but a health issue forced him to back out. I was desperate to find another letterpress designer who was creative and did great work, but was reasonably priced . . . to me, “reasonably priced” meant under $1000 for the invitation, RSVP card, and inner and outer envelopes. Frequent Weddingbee poster wsukarebear referred me to Tara at Ephemera Letterpress. I emailed Tara for samples and told her the key words for the wedding — ostrich plumes, vintage, and chocolate brown and pink. She created a masterpiece. I literally teared up when I opened up the box of invitations at home. Both Mr. Pearl and I agree that she hit a home run with these invitations.

The invitation card is done in Luxe cream cardstock with letterpressed pale pink swirls reminiscent of ostrich plumes in the background. The text is letterpressed in chocolate brown ink.

The RSVP card. I struggled with how to word the RSVP card to discourage the “everyone and the kitchen sink” method of responding that some people have. I realized that no matter what, people will likely do that, so at least if they put the number attending, I’ll know if I have to call them to . . . politely talk some sense to them. This is also done in Luxe cream with pale pink letterpressed plumes and chocolate text.

The unshown part(s) that I love are the pink envelopes — pink RSVP envelope and pink inner envelope. I like the touch of unexpected color they give.

For anyone looking for a responsive, talented, and reasonably priced letterpress vendor, I can’t recommend Tara (and Ephemera Letterpress) enough. She was an absolute dream to work with and (obviously) creative and talented.