Letterpress and wedding invitations just go together. We believe we’ve done some pretty fabulous wedding invitations. We love doing them for a couple of good reasons.
We love sharing such a monumental moment
We love trying to double the excitement an invited guests feel about going to the event.
We love the creative options.
We love connecting the invitation to the couple.
Deanna & Tray
We have a great friend who is a calligrapher in London and we were dying to use him for something. Deanna has an adopted daughter, Zoe, who is now our granddaughter and we love the way she writes.
We love the typographic opportunity that October 10, 2020 offered us.
Normally, we are fairly push about needing a significant amount of creative control. We don’t mind them wanting to do it their way, we just don’t want to be the ones to print it unless there is no argument about the cost. Lindsay was pushy about wanting the focus of the invite to be “A picture is worth a thousand words.” we made them shoot a short wide photo which we loved.
It took a bit before we got an idea that we could fall in love with.
So, we came up with a thousand words about love.
The standard operating procedure is for the couple (or whomever is in charge) will come in and talk with us until we start to get the feel that we have a story we can work with. We asked the question, “What do you like to do together?”
“Make beer.” So, we did an invitation made from 12 beer coasters. They were mailed in a box, all face-up, but in a mixed order and rotated all which ways. We loved that they could use the RSVP coasters when people who were at the wedding were invited over. Ah, multi-tasking. They even made the beer for the reception.
The groom was a friend who was a designer, so we won’t include his invitation here. But the fact that he visit us 18 months before the wedding got us to thinking. How about mailing 12 save-the-dates, one a month, for the year leading up to the wedding. They decided to do 4.
A few months after the wedding we called to see how the save-the-dates worked out. He said people were “Pissed.” My blood ran down into my shoes. He said they were pissed when they found out there weren’t any more coming. Maybe someone out there would commit to the dozen.
So, what do you do when you want creative control and the bride says, “I’m obsessed with peacock feather.” Twice. Here bouquet was peacock feathers. I guess you have to come up with an idea for using a peacock feather.
This couple were runners. So, we went to an athletic shoe store and photographed the soles of a pair of men’s and women’s running shoes. On the from they are both running in one direction. On the actual invitation page they are facing each other. We titled the piece “Marrython.”
