Jun16Real Invitations — Aleksandra + Scott

Today’s real invi­ta­tions come to us from Jen and Star­shaped Press, one of my fan­tas­tic spon­sors, and were printed using antique wood and metal type and orna­ments - each of which are 50–100 years old!  In order to pre­serve these del­i­cate mate­ri­als Jen cre­ates a gen­tle impres­sion (known as a “kiss”) on each invi­ta­tion, with a result that feels time­less and ele­gant.  For these invitations, Jen used antique type and orna­ments for a poster-style invi­ta­tion that evokes old-school Chicago.  Oh, and since today is Jen’s birth­day (Happy Birth­day Jen!), make sure you read all the way through for a spe­cial pro­mo­tion that Jen is offer­ing to Oh So Beau­ti­ful Paper readers!

From Jen: The bride, Aleks, really wanted an invite that felt old-school Chicago, but from more of a work­ing class, insider’s perspective.

They def­i­nitely wanted to use the quote from archi­tect and urban plan­ner Daniel Burn­ham on the front panel, as it felt appro­pri­ate to their mar­riage (make no small plans!).  The front panel was the vis­i­ble ele­ment when the invi­ta­tions were folded and inserted into the envelope.

Since this was a Black Tie affair, we wanted to keep some for­mal­ity to the invi­ta­tion.  The col­ors were a more muted navy and gold with cor­re­spond­ing navy envelopes, while the antique typog­ra­phy kept the invi­ta­tions grounded.

What I love about these invi­ta­tions is that they really show­case a great mix of wood and metal type, and make the invi­ta­tion more of a poster than a tra­di­tional invi­ta­tion, even though we are still able to fold and mail it at the first class rate.  This par­tic­u­lar style (from our Wanted! col­lec­tion) can be cus­tomized through dif­fer­ent col­ors and for­mats to resem­ble any­thing from a wild west poster to a car­ni­val broad­side. And much of the type we use prob­a­bly printed both of those items 100 years ago!

You can check out addi­tional wed­ding invi­ta­tion styles from Star­shaped Press right here, as well as on their flickr page.  And as I men­tioned above, to help cel­e­brate her birthday, Jen is offer­ing 10% off the Star­shaped Press Wanted! wed­ding invi­ta­tion col­lec­tion to OSBP read­ers!  Just be sure to men­tion the code “Beau­ti­ful Paper” when you con­tact Jen to receive the dis­count.  Thanks Jen!

{image cred­its: star­shaped press}

Comments
2 Responses to “Real Invitations — Aleksandra + Scott”

1. Liz says:

   June 17, 2010 at 3:34 AM

   Oooh I love these — I always like a good set of wooden type and recently I’m find­ing myself drawn to this sort of ‘out west’ style (I wanted to do it for our invites but the fiancee nixed it )…
2. BohèmeCircus says:

   June 16, 2010 at 1:12 PM

   I like very much this design

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