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Happy Weekend!

Hi Everyone!  So, I’m going to try out a new feature – a weekly round-up of paper-related links.  I might make this a more frequent feature if folks find it useful, so please leave me a comment or send me an e-mail to let me know what you think.  Please also let me know if you see that I’ve missed something or have a link that you found useful.

First, I just want to send a huge “thank you!” to  Meg and Christine for their posts about Mike & Emma’s wedding invitations that I featured last week – and say a quick “welcome!” to any new readers who might have found me from A Practical Wedding or pretty.pretty.paper.

So, now to the round-up – here’s what was floating around this week:

That’s it for this week — have a great weekend!

Elisabeth’s Floral Letterpress Wedding Invitations

I’ve been waiting for these all week!  Elisabeth finally posted pictures of her wedding stationery on her guest blog over at frolic! – you absolutely must go check out the full set here!

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Absolutely beautiful. Via frolic!, of course…

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

{image credits: black pearl press via frolic!}

Wedding Programs – Darling Dexter

I love, love the design that Whitney from Darling Dexter came up with for her wedding ceremony programs. You can just tell that Whitney thought about every detail – from the overlay of patterned paper as a cover to the baker's twine used to bind the pages together:

Whitney also incorporated the nest and other graphics from her invitations into the programs

I love the idea of incorporating quotes into wedding programs. In my own wedding, my husband and I recited poems in lieu of ring vows, and we included both those poems and our marriage vows in our programs.

{all photos by Whitney from Darling Dexter}

Julia Rothman’s Modern Illustrated Letterpress Wedding Invitations

When I saw the photos from Julia Rothman’s wedding on brooklyn bride last week, I knew I had to feature Julia’s amazing wedding invitations:

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Then I also remembered that I had seen an initial mock-up of these invitations a few months back on kenziekate’s guest blog on design sponge:

The invitations turned out to be absolutely lovely in all of their letterpress goodness – and it’s so wonderful to see these invitations go from illustration to reality!  I asked Julia for some background on the inspiration behind her invitation design.  Julia said that she actually had a hard time deciding what to do for her invitations since there were so many people to please, which I know is a feeling that many other brides can relate to!  Since Julia is an illustrator, it made the most sense for her to illustrate her own invitations – she decided to use line drawings to complement the feel and look of the letterpress printing process.

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From Julia: I knew I wanted to fill the space as much as possible with line drawings since letterpress looks so nice this way.  I’ve had some experience with it since working with Hello! Lucky on a line of cards.  I had my colors picked out already so that part was easy.  After trying a bunch of different typefaces I decided my own handwriting was so much more “me” and the rest just sort of happened.

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Initially I was disappointed with the design.  Matt liked it and I didn’t have much time so I decided to go with it. Once I added the rsvp card and the map I liked the invitation card much more.  Then after it was printed – by my friend Chris Kyung at Soho Letterpress as a gift – I loved how they came out.  I think most things look nice in letterpress no matter what and he did an absolutely perfect job.

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After seeing these invitations as a final product (including all of those hand-addressed envelopes!), I really can’t imagine anything else – the design seems so perfectly suited for Julia and her wedding.  Aren’t they just lovely?

Thanks so much, Julia, for sharing your beautiful invitations!

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

{image credits: top photo by jennifer causey, illustration by julia via design*sponge, all other photos by julia rothman}

Bar Mitzvah Invitation Ideas

Okay everyone, this time I need your advice and suggestions!

My nephew will be turning 13 in just a few short months and my sister is already preparing for his Bar Mitzvah this coming March.  They’ve asked for some help with the invitations.  The theme is “science fiction” – which is perfect for a 13 year-old boy, but gives me a bit of pause as a 20-something woman.  I’m thinking robots and spaceships as the main elements, with either a futuristic landscape or planets as accents.

I’ve started looking around for inspiration from other bar mitzvah invitations, but I’m not really seeing anything that’s doing it for me right now.

These invitations from Bella Figura are beautiful, but a little too sophisticated for my nephew…


…and this one, even if very cute, is a bit too far on the young side.

So, right now I’m thinking something more along the lines of vintage sci-fi inspiration:


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So what do you all think?  Anyone have any great sources for sci-fi inspiration that they want to share?  Is vintage science fiction too much for a teenage boy?  Comments are most welcome!

{images from their respective sources}