Before we start off with the first of the week’s giveaways, I just had to share these unbelievably gorgeous invitations from Parrott Design Studio featuring the gorgeous calligraphy of Betsy Dunlap:
Sarah from Parrott Design Studio sent over photos and some background on the design process. Â The bride, Rae, is an art historian and sent Sarah a huge folder of images she found inspiring, including floral arrangements by Saipua, work by some of her favorite artists, and images of Betsy’s calligraphy. Â Sarah recommended that Rae ask Betsy to do the hand lettering for the invitations, and then found ways of incorporating Rae’s other inspiration sources throughout the invitation suite:
Rae and Sarah worked with Betsy on all of the lettering for the main elements of the invitation suite — including the bride and groom’s names for the invitation, and the words “RSVP” and “Directions” for the invitation enclosures, the return address for the RSVP post card — as well as the calligraphy for the invitation envelopes:
The overall design of the invitation was kept elegant and simple — just Betsy’s calligraphy and type letterpress printed in a single color on super-thick cotton paper.  Before printing, Sarah hand-lined each invitation with a gorgeous floral pattern paper that Rae found to add a bit of color to the invitation:
Only the main invitation was letterpress printed, while the RSVP postcard and directions card were screen printed, also in a single color, to keep the overall cost of the invitation suite down:
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. Check out Sarah’s blog for more on this gorgeous invitation suite and additional tips on ways to save on letterpress invitations. Â Thanks so much for sharing these Sarah!
Oh, and stay tuned for our first giveaway of the week, coming up in just a little bit!
{photo credits: Parrott Design Studio}
Aren’t the beautiful? I saw them the other day and I might have let out a little squeal. 🙂 I just love everything about them!
This is interesting modern calligraphy. I’ve never seen anything like it! Love it.
i loove calligraphy.. been thinking about taking a class actually! sooooo pretty! xo.
Might be the most gorgeous invitations I’ve ever seen! Love seeing two of my favorite artists collaborate!
those are beyond drool-worthy. omg.
Love the calligraphy font..
Thank you, thank you Nole! 🙂 I am so happy you liked the invitaitons and shared them.
i absolutely love Betsy’s style.
I like calligraphy too especially your beautiful hand writing. Why don’t you create ebook of hand writing and calligraphy ?.
I LOVE calligraphy!
My fiance thought it was an “unnecessary expense” so we decided to compromise. Silly boys 🙂
Anyway, We had our place cards and invitations done by a calligrapher, but we were able to find a place online (Bachcroft) that printed all of our guests names onto clear address labels for about $40! Luckily they offered a typestyle that looks almost exactly like what is on our invitations.
I highly recommend that every couple with a budget check them out.