Kathryn from Blackbird Letterpress let me know about the incredibly sweet way that one of her customers asked her friends to be bridesmaids in her upcoming wedding. Â Meryl used Kathryn’s Grizzly Bear Hug die cut cards, inserted some photobooth photos that she’d taken with friends over the years, and a tiny banner containing the relevant question.
Meryl reports that she received many hugs and yeses in return. Â Yay!
Such a cute idea – thanks Kathryn and Meryl!
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Happy Monday everyone! Â We’re starting the week off with a gorgeous set of wedding invitations from Jackie at 42 Pressed. Â These letterpress invitations feature fun geometric patterns and pops of green and red for a modern and sophisticated design.
The bride, Amy, is an interior designer and is obsessed with color and pattern. Â Jackie printed a beautiful a blind deboss on the save the date for a beautiful pop of color against a simple and clean design.
Jackie continued the geometric pattern inspiration in the invitation suite, creating a belly band with a sophisticated green and white geometric pattern. Â The invitation rsvp card featured the same blind emboss geometric pattern and pops of red.
So lovely! Â Thanks Jackie!
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I love travel-inspired elements on wedding invitations, and I’m officially a happy camper when designers combine a sense of global wanderlust with the signature red and blue pattern of an airmail envelope. Â Well, Kathleen from & Kathleen Design did just that with her latest wedding invitation, and the result couldn’t be more stunning!
From Kathleen: Kim & John stumbled across my work while searching for a fun airmail invitation design.  They immediately hired me to design their own custom wedding invitations.  Kim and John only needed an invitation card – nothing else – so we decided to make it extra special by having it letterpress printed on a thick matte cover stock paper.
I kept the colors a classic red and blue and from there designed a custom invitation within the traditional striped airmail border. Â Kim & John were ecstatic to receive the final prints and I was thrilled to have another happy client.
Ooh, letterpress + airmail?  Yes please!  Thank you so much Kathleen!
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Love, love, love everything about these nautical save the dates from the ladies at Ice Cream Social, printed on cotton canvas and wrapped up with a ribbon bellyband for a wedding on Cape Cod. Â Preppy yet totally non-traditional at the same time.
Check out a bit more over at the Ice Cream Social blog.
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Our first set of wedding invitations today come to us all the way from Dubai! Â Mariam from Natoof Design sent over a gorgeous and modern wedding invitation suite that she designed for a wedding this past October. Â The wedding theme revolved around the rose petal and a color palette of gold and white, so Mariam incorporated a gorgeous die cut rose and beautiful gold foiling throughout the invitation.
From Mariam: The invitation couldn’t be more delicate and elegant with two die cut rose shapes folded to reveal golden metallic paper inside.  The Arabic calligraphy wordings were gold foiled and we included a small pocket to hold the VIP entrance cards.
Not wanting to defer the attention from the invitation, we used a plain white envelope with flower shape cut in the middle to show the invitation inside.
Mariam and her design team also created several accompanying pieces over a 3-month period, including: rose pendants, entrance cards, stickers for box gifts and tissue boxes, and gift tags.
Thank you so much Mariam!  For more of Mariam’s work, check out her website and blog right here.  Mariam was also recently featured in the inaugural issue of Martha Stewart Weddings Middle East – so exciting!
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