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Here are 3 invitation suites that I finished earlier this year. The first is for Lori & Clelio married May 31st. I received nothing but fantastic praise from her and her guests.

This 2 piece suite had an invite on top, and the reply underneath is a tear off postcard. All are a 2 color letterpress, and the envelope is a 100% recycled kraft paper with a handmade Lokta Nepalese paper of soft white vines on a blush color. This suite had matching escort cards and the calligraphy was done by Jill Velez.

The bride’s dress had a vine embroidery so it fit perfectly.

The next one is for Antonietta & Daniel They were married on July 19th in Italy. I did the save the dates, Invitation, escort cards, the covers for the programs, welcome notes, stickers for the favors, and wish cards to be used as a guest book.

These are pics of the invite and one of the save the date. The invite was boxed in a kraft cigar box filled with dried jasmine, and the actual invitation was wrapped in a shimmer gold bronze paper handmade in India. The invitation is a 3 color letterpress and the reply card and envelope are 2 colors. I had a custom wax seal of their initials made that was used on the outside of the envelope for the save the date, and on the little tea dyed tag inside.  I also made custom labels that were used to hold the box shut for shipping.

Basically this whole suite from save the date to invite is a postal worker’s nightmare, but every guest’s dream!

The final pictures I have are of Abby & Adam’s invitation, who were married on June 28th at Firestone Vineyards. Abby is an illustrator so I encouraged her to illustrate the actual invitation. I gave them a direction of style, and she sent me a little package of the most beautiful illustrations of vineyards. Some were full watercolor, others just a one color ink. I took the illustrations, scanned them, and designed it all around that.

This is a mixed media piece of ink-jet and letterpress. It is all printed on hand tea dyed paper. In order to stay in their budget, I offered to show her how I tea dye the paper so she could take it home and do it herself and bring it back to me to print everything.

Once I finished the letterpress, Abby took it home and hand painted the grapes and leaves on the invite with an acrylic glaze - this gave the invite many textures. These pictures do not show the painting she did afterwards, but she did give me some to keep. She also had a custom wax seal made of their initials A&A. The invite’s inner envelope was sealed with it along with the ceremony programs.

These pictures do not show the matching envelopes with letterpressed vines on the front..