Reis + Jaymee’s Modern California Wedding Invitations

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of featuring the awesome wedding save the dates from Jaymee of Jay Adores Design Co., and today Jaymee is back to share her wedding invitations and day-of stationery! While their save the dates focused on Reis + Jaymee’s life in Hawaii, the invitations are decidedly all about their California wedding venue. Jaymee mixed a modern layout with photos of Santa Barbara and vintage-inspired touches to achieve her own unique design style. So fun!

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From Jaymee: Designing our invitations was one of my favorite parts of planning our wedding. Invitations are really what set the tone for an event and let your guests know a portion of what to expect – so there was a lot of pressure! I wanted them to look how I envisioned our wedding to be: fun and not super formal, but still classy.

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After I finalized the designs, I sent the main invitation and reply card to Presshaus LA to be letterpress printed!  Kristine is such a joy to work with and they turned out even better than I could have imagined! The ever-talented Molly Jacques was our calligrapher and thanks to her, the most beautiful handwriting was sprawled across each envelope. I could not be happier with how they turned out!

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We used photos I had taken in Santa Barbara as the background of each page of the details packet. Although it was an extremely time consuming process, we DIYed string ties on every single envelope for a slight vintage appeal using gold eyelets and a crop-a-dile. To tie everything together, we wrapped the suite up in twine and attached a chipboard hang tag with our logo stamped on it.

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Check back a bit later for all the fun day-of stationery from Reis + Jaymee’s wedding and their rehearsal dinner invitations!

Design: JayAdores Design Co.

Letterpress Printing: Presshaus LA

Calligraphy: Molly Jacques

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

Photo Credits: Jay Adores Design Co.

Laurie + Bohb’s Travel-Inspired Vintage Stamp Save the Dates

I have a deep love for both anything travel-inspired and vintage postage stamps, so these save the dates from Allie Ruth Design are totally up my alley. Allie created a clean and simple design that incorporates her lovely hand lettering along with some gorgeous vintage stamps as the nod to the travel-inspired theme. The custom postmark in the corner is such a sweet touch.

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From Allie: In working with Laurie and Bohb, my job was to come up with an invitation that was loosely inspired by travel. While their wedding would take place in a beachy locale, Laurie was very clear that she wanted to stray away from palm trees and anything cliché. I developed a concept that hinted at their venue with a crisp white color palette and sandy gold letterpress ink.

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The pasted-on postage stamps from Angela Liguori add a wonderful worldly touch, each one applied individually by hand. In the corner, I stamped a custom “post marking” on each one, that included their names, wedding date, and location.

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Laurie knew that she had decided to send save the dates after the “proper” time had passed, but she still wanted to go for it. To playfully comment on that, she had me create a “better late than never” rubber stamp that resembled an old post marking for the backs of the envelopes. We chose colors for the hand-written calligraphy addresses and stamped details based on the vintage postage.

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Thanks Allie!

Allie Ruth Design is a member of the Designer Rolodex – you can see more of Allie’s beautiful work right here or visit the real save the dates gallery for more beau­ti­ful cus­tom save the dates!

Photo Credits: Allie Ruth Design

Blakely + Matthew’s Glamorous Art Deco Wedding Invitations

These black, white, and gold foil wedding invitations from Carina Skrobecki Design and Lizzy Showman practically scream glamour! Carina drew inspiration from the wedding venue (and black tie formal style) to create this stunning Art Deco-inspired invitation suite. I love that Carina mixed flat printing (for the black and white elements) and gold foil – and the gold thread is the perfect finishing touch!

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From Carina: Blakely and Matthew were an absolute joy to work with and together we created some of my favorite pieces to date. The two of them are getting married next month at the Arctic Club in Seattle, a landmark hotel from the early 1900s that was an exclusive club for men who struck it rich in the Alaskan gold rush (circa 1917). The building is beautifully ornate and the wedding itself will be a glamorous and formal affair, so we worked hard to have the invitations be the grand preview.

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Each piece was printed offset in 100% black onto Ecru Crane Letra and then kissed with gold foil. We used patterns and borders to cue an Art Deco style, but also kept it fresh with clean, yet slightly era-inspired typefaces. Each suite included a main invitation with gold shimmer lined black envelopes — complete with gold calligraphy — a reply card and gold-stamped reply envelopes, and an accommodations card all wrapped together with a delicate gold thread.

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Thanks so much Carina!

Design: Carina Skrobecki Design and Lizzy Showman

Calligraphy: Carolyn Kach

Gold Envelope Liners: The Persian Laundry on Etsy

Printing: Nikko Media

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

Photo Credits: Carina Skrobecki

Ellie + Seth’s X-Ray Save the Dates

Um, how cool are these save the dates from Morgan and Arley-Rose of Ladyfingers Letterpress?!?! The bride and groom – both doctors – were inspired to do something non-traditional for their wedding save the dates, so Morgan and Arley-Rose worked with them to come up with the idea of an x-ray featuring signature Ladyfingers Letterpress hand lettering screen printed in a bright teal ink. Such a fun surprise for their guests!

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From Morgan and Arley-Rose: We were approached by a pair of doctors (and the bride’s lovely mother!) to create their save the dates. During a chat with the bride-to-be, she shared a story that inspired them to want something a little non-traditional: A few years ago, a lawyer friend of theirs was getting married to another lawyer. Instead of sending a traditional invitation, they subpoenaed all their guests to their wedding! As doctors, they wanted to do something as witty and a little bit different, thus the x-ray save the date was born!

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We were able to procure a chest x-ray from a stock photo website and hand-lettered their adorable “Looks Like a Case of True Love” type on top. We worked with our friend Jon who runs a great local silkscreen shop called Headlight Hotel to produce the films and silkscreen printing.

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We also designed and ordered rubber stamps that read “Confidential” and “X-Ray Official Test Results – Do Not Bend” and hand stamped each envelope. Lastly, we letterpress printed their return address onto the backs of the string-tie envelopes.

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In the end, their guests received in the mail what appeared to be some sort of confidential medical test result, when in fact it was a clever and fun way to let them know that two of their favorite doctors are tying the knot!

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Thank you so much ladies!

Ladyfingers Letterpress is a member of the Designer Rolodex – check out more of their beautiful work right here or visit the save the date gallery for more beau­ti­ful cus­tom save the date ideas!

Photo Credits: Ladyfingers Letterpress

Fisher’s Mountain Ski Theme Bar Mitzvah Invitations

Bar and Bat Mitzvah invitations are serious business. I love seeing all the creative themes for the receptions after the ceremony! These particular invitations come to us from La Petite Fleur and were created with a snow lodge and ski theme in mind, and actually incorporate custom made scarves! There are lots of other wonderful details in this suite, but I think my favorite is perhaps the most simple – the beautiful antler monogram created using Fisher’s initials.

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From Leigh: Our clients, leaders in the garment industry, came to us for a custom invitation suite for their son Fisher’s Bar Mitzvah. They asked for a unique suite that incorporated a piece of clothing and that was expertly handcrafted. Along with the event’s “snow lodge/après ski” theme in mind, we designed a monogram with Fisher’s initials – FR – and a “North Fisher” logo, both of which were used throughout the invitation suite.

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The North Fisher icon was applied to a custom made camel scarf, which would serve as a “pocket” for the suite’s letterpress printed, foil-stamped, die cut, two color invitation card, which was printed on embossed Barque paper.

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To house the various custom-designed inserts within this Mitzvah suite, we created a die cut pocket that featured an angled front with a blind embossed logo. On the inside back of the pocket was an illustrated ski scene, which was revealed once all the inserts were stacked inside, like pieces of a puzzle. Each of the insert cards was custom illustrated to feature a portion of the overall ski and snow graphics scene.

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The scarf, with its tucked-in invitation, was nestled in the bottom of the custom box. The accompanying graduated inserts and pocket were adhered to the inside lid. The custom box was then wrapped and tied with a brown suede belly band that featured the FR monogram in a white foil stamp, and secured with brown suede ribbon. Guest names and addresses were written in white calligraphy.

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Thanks Leigh!

Photo Credits: La Petite Fleur