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We get a lot of questions from brides who are interested in knowing what the hot trends are in wedding invitations, which designs are best sellers and what elements they can include to really let their personalities shine. In the first few months of 2009, we’ve printed some pretty fabulous letterpress invitations for creative couples mixing modern design with the old world tradition of letterpress, and we absolutely love what they’re dreaming up. Here are some of the things we’re seeing a lot of these days, all of which you can use to inspire your own invitations…
Embellishments
I am in love with couples adding a punch of personality to their invitations by opting for great embellishments. In particular, metallic envelope liners have been a favorite along with the personalized touch of beautiful hand calligraphy accents and edge painting is more popular than ever. Some couples are opting for edge painting in elegant antique gold, a bit of a throwback to historic book gilding, while others are going for a bright pop of color, but either way, it’s absolutely gorgeous!
Bold Colors
Bright and bold color combinations are a growing trend with brides and grooms tending to be a bit more adventurous in their color selections. We’re printing a lot of fun cardinal and aquamarine, daffodil and deep aqua, bright green and blue, teal and persimmon and similarly festive ink combinations.
Jewel Tones
Brides are in love with jewel tones this season with a lot ink choices revolving around colors such as peacock, cardinal, aubergine, and navy. We’ve seen them paired with neutrals, other jewel tones, metallics, and also used solo.
Green
Green has been increasingly popular as of late, particularly when paired with either a neutral, another shade of green or with shades of blue. We’ve seen couples pairing greens of all shades with black, taupe, gray and a lot of green and navy, my personal favorite.
Nautical Combinations
Whether it be a choice of navy and antique gold, navy and yellow or again, even navy with a fresh shade of green, nautical combinations are very popular and being used for a wide range of events from the extremely luxurious to the more casual preppy chic.
What invitation trends do you love? Have your invitations been inspired by any of the fun new elements popping up in invitation design?
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what kind of ink do you use for the edging? my friend just lined his business cards with letterpress ink and they look so messy!
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Vendor: Invitations
Website: Bella Figura
About Me: Bella Figura is a wind-powered, eco-friendly letterpress shop committed to the fine artisanship of letterpress printing and the environment. Along with our sister company, Smock, we print our wedding invitations and stationery on only the finest luxury cotton and bamboo papers to ensure the most beautiful of prints in sight and to the touch, while working tirelessly to do our little piece for the good of the earth. We are hopelessly in love with our abundant collection of cast iron presses, farmer's markets, fall in Upstate NY, creating beautiful heirlooms for our brides, businesses that do good for the world, calligraphy, spending time in nature, contributing to the greater letterpress community, our rambling studios in a converted warehouse turned artist's haven, and our two year old in residence. Turning invitations into art on paper while dedicating ourselves to the environment is not what we do, it's who we are.
The bold color and jewel tone invites above are gorgeous! The texture of the invite looks to die for! =)