After an awful lot of planning, printing, trimming, assembling, and photographing, the new letterpress wedding invitation collection is all done and ready to make its entrance! I hope you enjoy exploring the new designs as much as I’ve enjoyed putting them together!
A little of the story behind these designs: As you’ve likely gathered, I love using chiyogami (Japanese silkscreened) papers, and often use them for guest book, journal, and album covers. They are richly colored and intricately patterned papers, and I wanted to find a great way to incorporate them in to my letterpress work, in addition to my bindings. The tactile quality of a crisp letterpress impression just seems like the perfectly elegant match to the chiyogami’s thick layers of saturated color.
I’ve wanted to design a collection of invitations for some time now, and the looming deadline of a sweet li’l baby’s arrival was just the sort of motivation I needed to make it happen. I created the three designs – Fitzgerald, Collins, and Strand (a few of my favorite writers) – focusing on clean, simple typography that would print beautifully and show off the chiyogami. Each design has been paired with four different chiyogami patterns, and the ink for each color palette is hand mixed to match the respective pattern.
Collins invitation in Apricot Mums, Strand save the date in Dark Green Floral, Fitzgerald invitation detail in Blue Mums
Thanks to Matt (*huge* thanks!), our site features all of the designs, pricing and ordering information, and a huge assortment of images of all the various available pieces. Sample suites of invitation packages are also available on Etsy, making it very easy to pick up a suite of any of the designs to see in person!
Since there is no shortage of beautiful chiyogami patterns available, there are also plenty of options for customizing these to suit any palette! If you’re interested in something, or just have a question, feel free to shoot me an email.
Enjoy looking through the site – we’re awfully proud of these new designs and are excited to share them!
The wait was worth it. These invitations are beautiful! Makes me wish I had a need for a hand printed wedding invitation.
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