Occasionally we design a custom invitation for a client, and we love it so much we decide to keep it for ourselves. This one, originally designed for Paige and Clayton's January wedding, will soon be added to Parklife's wedding collection.

The new Paige invitation set is printed with black ink and a blind impression on 300g Ecru White paper, paired here with a subtly metallic black envelope liner. Fonts are Neutra Caps and one of our favorite scripts, Parfumerie.

wedding invitationsTravis FriedrichJanuary 19, 2016black, white, ecru, 300g, envelope liner, reply card, blind debossComment

New York Garden Wedding Whimsy

It can be tricky to create a wedding invitation suite that's colorful, playful, and exciting, while still conveying the sophistication of the event itself. While working with Terisa and Tom, the goal of maintaining that balance was always at the front of our minds.

Ok, sure, the save the dates leaned a bit toward the whimsical end. We printed and hole punched a thick 600g note card, and then tied custom-printed balloons for the guests to inflate. Details of the event were on the balloon (and on the website for the faint of breath).

For the invitations we kept the yellow and gray color scheme and the Bombshell / Neutra / Trend Slab typeface combo, but left out the balloons (time to get serious).

We carried a similar look through to the reply card, a custom designed map, and a rehearsal dinner invitation with its own color scheme and tear-off reply card. The set was then placed inside a gray tri-fold pouch, tied with twine, and sealed in a matching gray envelope.

wedding invitationsTravis FriedrichNovember 24, 2015balloon, fluorescent white, 600g, 300g, yellow, gray, pocket fold, twine, rehearsal dinner, tear-off, hole punch, perforation, inkjet, map, save the dateComment

Ontario Blossoming

Gabriel & Aida saw two of our most popular wedding invitations, our Ontario and Blossom styles, and asked, "why choose?". Why not Ontariossom? Or Blosstario?

With our help, they combined the modern typefaces and sleek black / white / silver color scheme of our Ontario style with the classic floral motif from our Blossom design.

wedding invitationsTravis FriedrichOctober 27, 2015Ontario, Blossom, Black, silver, edge painting, pearl white, envelope liner, 600g, reply card, floral, flowerComment

Golden Botanicals Wrapped & Sealed

If you thought the letterpress save the dates we printed for Randi & Ben this spring were cool, I think you're gonna like the follow-up.

This was truly a collaborative project. Randi designed the two-sided invitation and sleeve, and sent the specs off to us.

We printed the front of the invitation on 300g Pearl White paper with midnight ink and gold foil, and the back with gold foil on a separate sheet. Then we duplexed the two sheets by hand, let them dry, and trimmed off the edges. This allowed us to get a two-sided piece with heavy artwork and no impression show-through.

Randi designed the sleeve to double as a direction card. We printed those with midnight ink on a 4" x 15" sheet, then scored, folded, and glued them.

Randi finished off the set on her end with gold string and a custom wax seal. Photos of the completed invitation are below.

wedding invitationsTravis FriedrichSeptember 29, 2015midnight, gold, foil, sleeve, duplex, wax seal, monogram, pearl white, 300g, 600g, directions Comment

A Wedding Between Two Ferns

Last month we featured Luke and Robyn's Mount Hood wedding invitation set. Sticking with the Oregon theme, this time we head south for Julia and Detlev's wedding on the Umpqua River.

Both the wedding ceremony invitation and the rehearsal dinner invite feature fern imagery – somewhat abstractly on the main invite and more realistically and delicately for the rehearsal.

wedding invitationsTravis FriedrichSeptember 9, 2015fern, Espresso, light celadon, ecru, 600g, rehearsal dinner, thank you notes, blind, bickham script, trajanComment

A Mount Hood Wedding

Perhaps you saw our 2013 blog post detailing the underused letterpress technique of halftone screens. In short, we can use tiny dots and on-paper ink mixing to create the illusion of gradations and multiple ink colors.

For Robyn and Luke's Timberline Lodge wedding, we used just two inks (a very light gray and a dark blueish-gray) to create a photo-realistic image of Oregon's Mount Hood.

To accompany the invitation, we printed an info card with a tear-off reply postcard (this one with a halftone bird because, hey, put a bird on it), a small rehearsal dinner invite, and a custom woodgrain-lined envelope.

wedding invitationsTravis FriedrichAugust 11, 2015ecru, 600g, halftone screen, tear-off, reply postcard, envelope liner, cool gray, bird, rehearsal dinner Comments

Foiled & Monogrammed

We love type-only designs. This one's got a simple monogram in Italic Garamond along with text in Neutra Light and Sloop Script.

We used a custom paper -- two sheets of Dark Gray 350g Colorplan duplexed to create a nice, thick 700g stock. The card was printed with silver foil, finished with silver edge paint, and paired with a pearl white cotton envelope.

wedding invitationsTravis FriedrichJune 25, 2015foil stamp, silver, silver foil, monogram, edge painting, duplex, dark gray, colorplan, pearl white Comment