Arley-Rose + Morgan’s Neon Wedding Invitations

Happy Monday everyone!  And my oh my, do I love today’s wedding invitations.  The ladies of Ladyfingers Letterpress, Arley-Rose and Morgan, created these invitations for their Massachusetts farm wedding this past September.  They both have design school backgrounds and lots of experience designing and printing custom wedding invitations, so they knew they wanted to create something totally unique for their own wedding.  They ended up creating a fantastic poster-size invitation with exuberant hand lettering and neon ink.  So awesome!

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From Arley-Rose and Morgan: At Ladyfingers Letterpress, we had been doing a lot of A7-size invitations for other couples.  We knew we wanted to break out of the box on many levels – including size – for the invitations, so we explored the idea of creating a poster.  After months of sketching and experimenting, we finally arrived at a colorful text-based drawing as the invitation.

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A friend of ours showed us a really neat glow-in-the-dark silkscreen poster, and as soon as we saw it we knew we had to have some glow-in-the-dark element to our invitations.  The large, 11 x 17″ poster was printed in three color offset and one color letterpress (fluorescent red!) on text-weight 32lb Lettra in fluorescent white and folded down in quarters to fit in a gray A9 envelope.

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The location of our wedding was called Seven Arrows Herb Farm, so we incorporated these hand-drawn arrows throughout the design.  We created a pattern out of them and printed them on the backs of our RSVP and “Backyard Soiree” (aka rehearsal dinner) cards that were printed on thick 220lb Lettra and edge painted in fluorescent pink.  We also used the arrow pattern to create a one-color envelope liner.

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We created a booklet called “Interesting Bits of Knowledge” that included info regarding accommodations, attire, and one small yet important notice regarding an allergy of our wedding officiant.  This booklet enclosed our Soiree card and fit inside a gold enclosure with two pockets that we designed and die cut.  Our RSVP and return envelope fit inside the other golden enclosure pocket.

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We didn’t have a giant mulit-tiered wedding cake, but in some ways, we did. It was called our invitation: The folded invite was stacked with the filled-up golden enclosure and wrapped with a pink plastic-like belly band and stuffed into our lined envelopes.  Arley hand-painted the addresses on the front with gold and white guache and the envelopes were sealed and taken over to the post office!

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Thanks Arley and Morgan!  Check out their wedding over on their blog Ladies in Love – and check out more of their beautiful letterpress work right here!

Photo Credits: Ladyfingers Letterpress, with many thanks to Carrie for sending over the link.

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25 Responses to “Arley-Rose + Morgan’s Neon Wedding Invitations”
  1. jonahliza
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    says:

    these are soo awesome! i love love love all the colors. thanks for sharing <3 happy holidays!

  2. Kelly says:

    These are fantastic! I love all that hand lettering.

  3. Claudia says:

    Love, love, love this suite! It’s so creative and colorful and I love the beautiful hand lettering! I would have loved to received one in the mail but I don’t think I could have parted with the reply card!

  4. Cassandra
    Twitter:
    says:

    Really love the way these look – especially all packaged up in the pocket!

  5. so many lovely details! the envelope liners, the mixed fonts, the painted edge, the NEON! well done!

  6. Alison
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    says:

    These are incredible! Love the neon!!

  7. Neipori Leto says:

    Great idea! Unconventional and refreshing!

  8. Colleen says:

    Morgan & Arley do the best work! Two talented ladies and nice people to boot. Loved their invite and lucky to see it in person!

  9. Raquel salar says:

    Beautiful! What kind of paint did u use for the edge?

  10. elle
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    says:

    very nice! I like it!

  11. Absolutely love every little detail about these! Truly wonderful!

  12. Sarah says:

    Ah! I love Morgan & Arley’s invitations!! They are both so creative and talented (and super nice on top of that!). :)

  13. davetiye says:

    very interesting, but beatiful

  14. davetiye says:

    very interesting.. but beatiful

  15. these invites are almost too good to be true. that color palette + hand lettering…perfection.

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