My latest major undertaking (in addition to Dad’s book and growing a little person (!), is a pretty extensive new collection of wedding invitations. I guess that’s what happens when I find myself with a relatively free afternoon, like I did last Friday!
For some time, I’ve wanted to create a selection of ready-to-go (ie. non-custom) invitation sets to simplify the whole process of choosing great wedding stationery. It’s no small thing, let me tell you! I also wanted to find a way to incorporate some of the amazing chiyogami (Japanese silkscreened) papers I’m using on book covers in to some of my letterpress work…thus, invitations with bands of chiyogami paper and coordinating ink colors!
These are just a few digital versions of the (many) working drafts of the new invitation designs, on which the band of paper will cover the details of the event when mailed. I’m excited to see how rich everything will look in person, once the decorative papers are paired with the cotton of the invitations themselves and the impression of the text. Everything is still being tweaked, and I’m still narrowing down which ones I’ll end up offering, so definitely let me know if you have favorites that just have to make the cut!
And here’s one of the square designs both with and without the paper band that will be wrapped around it.
As you can see above, each of the designs incorporates a band of chiyogami paper, along with a fairly simple and clean, yet elegant, text-only design for the invitation itself. There are a variety of papers I’m using for each of these layouts. The colors of ink I’ll use to print the text on each are matched to the corresponding band of paper that seals the invite, making for a smart, impressive, and pretty package (if I say so, myself)! Since letterpress printing has a way of making delicate type look awfully stunning when surrounded by a nice amount of pillowy, cotton white space, the simplicity of the layouts should look dy-no-mite when printed.
We’re hoping to get these all done, samples printed, and a section of the site launched for them in the next month or so…which means you can’t accuse this pregnant woman of lacking energy quite yet!
And, a few words on time, the order of things, and the bigness of it all in Pattiann Rogers’s “The Origin of Order”.
They’re breathtaking!!
I love the script typeface you used for the names on your invitations…beautiful!
Thanks, ladies! I’m having so much fun with these and the papers are too fun not to use with something like this…I’ll keep ‘em coming!
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