May26Real Invitations — Erin + Jeremy

I love the con­cept behind this week’s real invi­ta­tions a col­lec­tion of indi­vid­ual pieces resem­bling vin­tage paper ephemera from the 1800s through the 1950s!  Hello!Lucky, the design team behind this cus­tom wed­ding invi­ta­tion suite, com­bined let­ter­press and dig­i­tal print­ing to cre­ate a sense of romance and nostalgia:

From the Hello!Lucky team: We designed these invi­ta­tions for our dear friend Erin and her fiance Jeremy for their upcom­ing des­ti­na­tion wed­ding in Cal­is­toga, Cal­i­for­nia.  The bride and groom are both aca­d­e­mics Erin teaches law and Jeremy is an astro­physi­cist so they wanted their invi­ta­tion to have a book-ish feel.

We decided to use the con­cept of a col­lec­tion of found paper mem­o­ra­bilia includ­ing a book-page invi­ta­tion, a snap­shot of the bride and groom, map and shut­tle bus enclo­sures, brunch ticket, and RSVP telegram giv­ing the invi­ta­tion suite a vin­tage, roman­tic and nos­tal­gic feel.

The wed­ding invi­ta­tion is inspired by the open­ing chap­ter of a clas­sic novel (think Jane Austen) and was let­ter­press printed on deckle-edged paper to emu­late a page torn from an authen­tic book.  Wed­ding details are printed on a vintage-style post­card from Cal­is­toga, the wedding’s location.

The RSVP card is a let­ter­press printed West­ern Union telegram and includes witty, mad-lib style blanks that guests can fill out.  We also designed a 1950’s-style “adver­tise­ment” for the free wed­ding shut­tle, includ­ing a infor­ma­tion card enclosed in a small coin enve­lope, as well as a vin­tage bus-ticket invi­ta­tion to the farewell brunch.

A old-fashioned map of down­town Cal­is­toga guides guests to their hotels and local attrac­tions.  We also designed a state fair-inspired rehearsal din­ner invi­ta­tion for a Kansas City style BBQ (the groom hails from Kansas City), fea­tur­ing a pic­nic nap­kin checker pat­tern and a blue-ribbon pig.  Finally, we included a small black and white snap­shot of the bride and groom pos­ing in a book­ish man­ner.

Sigh… I love the roman­ti­cism of the novel page invi­ta­tion, while the accom­pa­ny­ing enclo­sures bring an over­all bal­ance to the full suite.  So lovely!

{image cred­its: Hello!Lucky}

*Hello!Lucky is one of my fan­tas­tic spon­sors; for more on my edi­to­r­ial pol­icy, please click here.

Comments
2 Responses to “Real Invitations — Erin + Jeremy”

1. Michael and Anna Costa says:

   June 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM

   We love the retro touch!
2. KnotAnja says:

   May 26, 2010 at 4:23 PM

   OMG! So much fun going on here!

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