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Five new letterpress wedding invitation designs are out! Let’s take a look:

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FERN

Tonal green-on-green letterpress with crisp copper foil, Fern is one of three new 2019 designs on our Parklife Colors paper. Great for island weddings, rainforest rehearsal dinners, deep woods baby showers, you name it.  We like to pair the Forest green invitation with Ecru reply cards and envelopes for easier writing. But if you prefer Forest paper and envelopes all around, that's an option too.

TIMBERLINE

Timberline pairs a soft matte inkjet-printed watercolor image with stark black letterpress type on our house cotton paper. Great for the Pacific Northwest, or anywhere pine trees are found. An inkjet run is priced the same as one letterpress ink, so the Timberline set is priced as a two-color design.

NIGHTSHADE

Tonal navy-on-navy letterpress cherry blossoms alongside rose gold foil text. This one can be adapted with other sorts of flowers too. Let us know what you have in mind! As with the Fern design, we can use either dark Parklife Colors paper or white cotton paper for the reply cards and envelopes (for easier writing).

VERANDA

Airy, playful, and charming, our Veranda wedding invitation pairs nicely with any outdoor spring or summer event. If you like, swap out the seafoam ink for another light/bright color to suit your taste.

HARVEST

Gold Shine foil and Dust letterpress ink on 300g Harvest paper. The detail in the oak leaf on this one is amazing! Harvest is lovely with gold foil, but can also be printed with letterpress ink (Cocoa, Espresso, and Black are great options) and you'll save a little money. We can pair these with Harvest-colored envelopes or with our white cotton envelopes if you'd prefer.

Photos by Gritchelle

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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.

Kevin and Francesca were looking for an invitation to echo the embroidery on the bridal gown. They found what they were looking for, basing their set on Parklife's Franklin design. The springy floral motif was also reflected in the design of the wedding cake and in the floral arrangements.

The other major requirement for the invitations was that they speak to two audiences, which had, as Francesca put it, "different traditions and etiquette requirements." The floral artwork was printed with a single plate in light celadon ink. But for the forest green text, two different plates were used — one in English and one in Italian. The enclosure cards were bilingual to speak to both audiences — one card invited guests to the reception, the other gave RSVP directions and other information. "Everyone invited, from every country we touched, made the comment that they'd never seen such a simple yet elegant touch and attention to details in the invitations."

"The invitations  for our wedding were probably one of the best things of the wedding organization," Francesca said. "We could not be any more pleased by the success of the first step of the best day in our lives. We have been recommending Parklife Press to whomever asks for refined letterpress work."

Photos by Sarah McCarty Arneson