Oh So Beautiful Paper

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

Check out the Designer Rolodex for more tal­ented wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers and the real invi­ta­tions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!

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

1. Nicole (WeddingScan)
   Twitter: WeddingScan
   says:

   03/31/2012 at 7:32 PM

   I love the colors and the fonts! Very cute and trendy right now especially.
2. jonahliza
   Twitter: treecookies
   says:

   12/01/2011 at 7:52 PM

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

   11/30/2011 at 9:38 AM

   These are fantastic! I love all that hand lettering.
4. Claudia says:

   11/26/2011 at 10:49 PM

   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!
5. Lisa R. says:

   11/22/2011 at 2:36 PM

   these are so fun!
6. Cassandra
   Twitter: 22and33
   says:

   11/21/2011 at 10:39 PM

   Really love the way these look – especially all packaged up in the pocket!
7. Victoria@VictoryPaper says:

   11/21/2011 at 7:21 PM

   so many lovely details! the envelope liners, the mixed fonts, the painted edge, the NEON! well done!
8. Alison
   Twitter: designbyalison
   says:

   11/21/2011 at 6:56 PM

   These are incredible! Love the neon!!
9. Neipori Leto says:

   11/21/2011 at 6:01 PM

   Great idea! Unconventional and refreshing!
10. Colleen says:

    11/21/2011 at 2:50 PM

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

    11/21/2011 at 2:40 PM

    Beautiful! What kind of paint did u use for the edge?
12. elle
    Twitter: elleartcraft
    says:

    11/21/2011 at 1:01 PM

    very nice! I like it!
13. Nicole Underwood
    Twitter: nikolina100
    says:

    11/21/2011 at 12:54 PM

    Absolutely love every little detail about these! Truly wonderful!
14. Sarah says:

    11/21/2011 at 12:06 PM

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

    11/21/2011 at 11:45 AM

    very interesting, but beatiful
16. davetiye says:

    11/21/2011 at 11:44 AM

    very interesting.. but beatiful
17. rachael adele // for the love of design says:

    11/21/2011 at 10:09 AM

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

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