Adam + Afra’s Secret Society Library Wedding Invitations

Oooh – a secret society wedding at the Boston Public Library sounds like fun, don’t you think? Blake and Irene at Sparkvites created the invitations for this mysterious wedding, incorporating a custom envelope liner and wax seal detail – the perfect touch for a library wedding!

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From Blake and Irene: We worked on this secret society themed wedding invitation featuring an enclosure and custom wax seal. The invitation is letterpress printed, and accompanying cards are digital along with the custom envelope liner. We also did the custom addressing on this invitation suite.

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Thanks Blake and Irene!

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Photo Credits: Sparkvites

Lesley + Brian’s Street Map Wedding Invitations

These modern wedding invitations are the result of a fun collaboration between Kseniya of Thomas-Printers and Mike from Anticipate Invitations – and happen to feature my home town of Washington, DC! With the wedding location as the primary inspiration, the design features a street map background behind the main text and hand lettering for the bride and groom’s names. Beautiful!

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From Kseniya and Mike: The inspiration behind Lesley and Brian’s letterpress wedding invitation was a street map of the wedding’s location in Washington, DC. Dupont Circle was chosen as the central focus and the abstract lines of the streets were printed blind (without ink) behind the main text on Crane’s Lettra 220# in Bright White. The couple’s names were hand lettered and printed in a punchy orange ink to compliment the warm gray; the rehearsal dinner card and response card followed suit.

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Thanks Kseniya and Mike!

Design: Michael Musser of Anticipate Invitations

Letterpress Printing: Kseniya Thomas of Thomas-Printers

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Photo Credits: Michael Musser

Bohemian Botanical Wedding Invitations

My oh my, I have completely fallen for the newest addition to the Lucky Luxe wedding invitation collection! These bohemian invitations combine watercolor hand lettering with a typewriter font and antique floral engravings – perfect for an understated nature-inspired wedding. Love!

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From Erin: Flora was created to be a reflection of that couple tied to the land and their love — not tied to the standards of wedding paper formality. The script for the suite is painted by hand in watercolor, and all the fine text is an understated typeface taken from our old Remington typewriter. The invitations are then flat printed on 100% cotton Lettra paper, allowing for a layering of color and gradients.

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The lettering choices, layered with colorful antique engravings from Furber’s Twelve Months of Flowers published in 1730, create a composite that’s altogether modern, bohemian, and nostalgic. We’re thinking of Flora as the new flower child among her sisters in the Lucky Luxe wedding collection.

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Thanks Erin!

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Photo Credits: Lucky Luxe

Happy Weekend!

Happy Halloween weekend everyone! Today is the annual Halloween parade at Sophie’s daycare – and if you haven’t ever seen dozens of babies and toddlers in full costume all in the same place, well, it’s pretty much the cutest thing ever. This year, Sophie will be rocking a homemade costume of sorts: she’ll be a snail, which is just about the extent of my limits with a newborn at home. We don’t get many trick-or-treaters on our street, so we’ll be hanging out with friends and their adorable daughter tonight to help them pass out candy. Best of both worlds! But in the meantime…

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Photo by Shannon Kirsten

…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

Check back soon for this week’s cocktail! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here next week! xoxo

Abby + Frewin’s Modern Rustic Wood Veneer Wedding Invitations

These wedding invitations from Anelise Salvo Design Co. mix simple details with natural materials for a rustic wedding in the woods. Inspired by the Orcas Island wedding location, the invitation was printed on sassafras wood veneer and included natural elements like pressed ferns and twine!

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From Anelise: It was Abby and Frewin’s dream to be married in the woods and I was beyond excited I could help create their dream invitation suite! I took Abby’s love for simple typography and mixed it with some natural elements. The invitation was printed on sassafras wood and incorporates pressed leaves and natural twine to hold the suite together along with a tea-stained, rustic manila tag with their wedding logo.

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We chose a natural kraft paper envelope and carried their wedding typography onto the envelopes. The suite evokes the rustic Orcas Island terrain Abby was hoping would come across and get her guests excited for a weekend in the woods!

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 Thanks Anelise!

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Photo Credits: Anelise Salvo Design Co.