View fullsize

These oversized square invitations feature our Tungsten letterpress ink along with a digitally printed "tigers & lemons" wedding seal provided by the couple.

As they put it, “Tiger” is the bride’s term of endearment for the groom as he is the fourth Shoemaker to hold “Tigert” as his middle name. “Lemons” is the groom’s term of endearment for the bride as she is “the lemon to his lime.”

The invitation is printed on our thick 600g Pearl White paper with bright gold edge paint, and it's paired with a metallic gold liner. The typeface combo is great: All caps Bodoni with sans serif Neutra Book.

We also printed mini directions booklets using the same ink combo, but on our lighter-weight 300g stock.

View fullsize

Simple but spectacular one-color invitations designed by the bride, Jessica, and printed by us.

PAPER 300g and 600g Pearl White
INK Midnight

View fullsize

For Taryn and Adam's wedding in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, we designed a custom foil + letterpress motif based on the garden's Palm House. Take a look at the inspiration: 

View fullsize

Photo by Brookelyn Photography

We carried parts of the artwork through to reply cards, menus, programs, and even the envelopes.

PAPER 600g Fluorescent White
INK Light Celadon
FOIL Silver Shine

View fullsize

These might be my favorite client-designed invitations this year. The bride, Nisha, designed three different invites for her various California wedding festivities.

All three have a common feel — employing the same border art, black ink, and copperplate type. But Nisha used different title art for each and we printed them with three different fluorescent letterpress inks — neon orange, deep magenta, a bright pink. We finished each set with three different edge paints — electric blue, highlighter yellow, and metallic silver.

Finally, we used the neon orange ink to print the flap of the fluorescent white envelope.

And what the hell, how about a few more photos...

View fullsize

For fellow Portlanders Nathan and Liene, we created a customized variation on our Petal invitation. We kept the round corners and multi-tone orchid art, but changed the fonts, orientation, and inks.

View fullsize

This is one of our favorite client-designed wedding sets of the summer. Elaine and Joseph's invites mimic the lush forest that surrounded their venue in the Santa Cruz Mountains, complete with ferns, pinecones, and slugs.

We mixed a custom dilution of our Light Celadon ink to let the deep impression of the artwork really stand out.

View fullsize

We printed these oversized invites for the friendly folks at Frou Frou House with a very light cool gray ink and a deep blind impression. They're printed on our 600g Fluorescent White stock sized for large A9 envelopes.