Weddingbee Blog

Finally, some pictures! Admittedly they aren’t the best quality, but a makeshift photo shoot on our kitchen counter will have to suffice. I designed the invitation suite myself and worked with a local letterpress company to have them printed. I love letterpress so much that we just had to find a cost effective way to make it work, so designing them myself and using a small printing company proved to be the best option. It took a lot of research, and I didn’t actually have the best experience with them, but I am really happy with the end result so I suppose that’s all that matters! I hate to blur out the some of the information but hopefully you can still get an overall feel for how things looked…

In the photo above is the outer envelope, the inner envelope, and the suite all stacked together. We used satin ribbon to hold the stacked invitation and insert cards together, and used a circle punch and glue dots to make our monogram into a seal of sorts. Here is the whole suite. We used the flourish in different places on all of the pieces in an effort to tie it all together. Here’s a close-up of the invitation itself. Here are the insert cards. Instead of the standard terms used in invitations, like “RSVP”, “Reception”, and “Accommodations”, we used the terms “rejoice”, “respond”, and “relax”. “Rejoice” and “respond” were the only cards that were letterpressed. We ordered the “relax” carda from Vistaprint so that we could put a map on the back of it.And last but not least, Lola our dog had to make her way onto the invitations somehow! We ordered custom stamps for the RSVP envelopes with her picture on them.
Here is a close up of the stamp. It’s a little hard to tell but she’s holding an envelope in her mouth that has the same seal on it as the one on the ribbon. We were actually holding the envelope up to her mouth and I Photoshopped a hand out of the picture. You do what you’ve got to do, right?
It was kind of a debate whether or not to leave the response card so open ended, but it wound up working out better than we could have hoped. We’ve received really traditional responses, some that are a little strange, and some that made me laugh so hard I cried (some rather outgoing and intensely hilarious guests incorporated pictures). Finding out what people do with blank spaces is pretty entertaining!

Did anyone else decide to go the letterpress route?