Our wedding card designers have been hard at work over the winter months getting ready for the spring wedding season. Beyond the custom creations we have made for individual brides, we have 7 new Indian wedding card designs available.
Nothing can compare to the feeling of running your fingers across this letterpressed paisley pattern. Maybe the most striking letterpress Indian wedding card yet, Devi has a soft burgundy ink with a beautiful tint varnish that compliments the embossed nature of the invitation design.
Employing a pantone violet that brilliantly contrasts with the copper foil design and text, this letterpress Indian wedding card is sure to impress your guests.
But the creativity does not stop here! There are several more Indian wedding card designs all available with custom wording, colors and extras. Do yourself a favor and check them out, many of our Indian wedding cards are even available with our amazing invitation special.
I love letterpress printing. When it comes to wedding invitations, there really is no better way to set the tone and generate authentic excitement from your guests than by choosing letterpress. The texture, the unique designs, the matching envelopes (and sometimes liners) combine in a scrumptious aesthetic that is supreme among invitations.
However, I also understand that many boutique letterpress printers do charge a premium for their services, and in this economy they can become expensive (though they not have to be!).
So what’s a bride to do? If you really love letterpress printing, but cannot afford a full invitation set, consider having your wedding vows printed with letterpress. This way you can frame them and display them for years to come. They can be a constant reminder of the love, commitment and respect you each have for each other, and will look absolutely gorgeous too.
If you and your spouse to be are feeling adventurous, it would be a wonderful treat for your guests to have your wedding vows printed with letterpress and included along with your thank you cards. If the thought of sending your vows to everyone may seem a little much, it is always possible to include them only in the letters to your closest friends and relatives.
This way, you can share your feelings and give your guests something to remember your marriage celebration by, a small, stunning pledge filled with memories and joy.
Watch a Video of Your Wedding Invitation Being Printed
After printing one our most popular letterpress wedding invitation designs we decided it was time to start filming a little more of what goes on behind the scenes here at Invitations by Ajalon.
If you liked what you saw and want to see more, visit our media library or youtube channel for additional videos relating to printing letterpress wedding invitation designs and DIY bride techniques.
In between designing and printing our new letterpress wedding invitation designs we thought it would be a good idea to show you brides what goes on behind the scenes here at Invitations by Ajalon.
So the next time we printed theMonica letterpress invitation design, we decided to film it so everyone could see how beautiful this invitation set is.
Here is the video giving you a brief overview of the printing process:
For those of you without sound, or if you are at work and need to keep your wedding invitation on the down low, I will include the commentary below.
“So today we just wanted to show you what it looks like to print our Monica letterpress wedding invitation design.
This is a really beautiful invitation design that has a simple yet elegant aesthetic.
Combining the classical texture and emotion of a vintage wedding invitation, your guests will be thrilled when they open your envelope and receive the good news.”
More brides are engaged in the winter months from Christmas to Valentine’s Day than any other time of the year. This makes way for a wonderful spring season filled with weddings. To stay ahead of the wedding planning curve I have created a useful list of the 5 hottest trends for weddings in 2010:
Blogging Brides
Whether they are written to make wedding announcements or document the brides planning progress, now more than ever brides are starting their own blogs. When properly directed by the wedding invitation, they can also serve as a useful addition to the wedding guest’s knowledge about the bride, groom or details about the celebration.
Textured Invitations
Choosing flat, solid wedding invitations is a thing of the past. Couples to be are picking invitation sets that include everything from extra fabrics, letterpress and embossing. Texture adds character and emotion to your invitation set, something that guests will appreciate.
Wear-it-Again Bridesmaids Dresses
The myth that it is bad luck to wear the bridesmaid dress after the wedding is dying. Brides and the bridal party have started to pick dresses that can be worn for more than one occasion (after the wedding though, of course).
Wear It Again Dress from Dessy - Courtesy of The Wedding Wearhouse
Personalize Everything
Brides are taking matters into their own hands. From DIY décor to handmade favors, this year weddings are going to be full of personalized additions. Ceremonies and celebrations are a perfect place for your creative inner self to express themselves. It is your day, create it how you want it.
Non-Linear Aisles
Part of a growing non-traditional trend is cutting out the customarily rigid lines that separate his family and hers. Couples are getting married in locations that can accommodate semi circles and other floor plans that break from the straight lines of the past. This does a great job of mixing up the wedding guests and at the very least, everyone gets a better view of the bride and groom.
A lot of brides to be that I encounter want to DIY (do it yourself) some portion of their wedding invitations. Whether its cutting out envelope liners, properly inserting the liners into the envelope, addressing, stuffing the envelopes or even designing the invitation themselves, today’s brides have become a central part of the wedding invitation process.
However, I also know the stress and anxiety that can come with attempting to DIY 100+ invitations alone. So I wanted to give you 5 ideas about how to plan, organize and carry out a DIY party that not only makes your life easier, but can be a whole lot of fun too!
Choose Only Your Closest Friends
Pick a group of people that will work well together and get along. Unless you know they will mesh well with the group, friends of friends or ‘obligated’ invites should be avoided. You do not need 15 people, smaller groups (4-7) work the best.
Plan in Advance and Stick With that Day
Do not try to throw a DIY party the night before you have to send your invitations out. The added stress takes all the fun out of the project. Also, this is not your wedding day, it will be alright if a couple of your friends cannot make it. Continually postponing the time trying to match everyone’s schedules is difficult. Pick a day well in advance and stick with it.
Assign Everyone a Job
While it is a party, it is a ‘work’ party. Everyone should be given a task and provided with the necessary tools and instructions on how to complete the task.
Provide Food and Drinks
Everyone works better on a full stomach. An easy way to motivate your friends to come (and to work) is to give them something delicious to eat. And of course a Cosmo or two never hurt the work morale
Have Fun
And long as you follow the first four steps this one should be a no brainer. Give yourself enough time so you are not rushed and that way you can all enjoy yourselves during the working process!
Good luck.
I can appreciate a fine handcrafted wedding invitation that someone has taken the time to engrave. They are beautiful, elegant and one of a kind, but they do not come without a certain level of problems and pitfalls when compared to letterpress.
Recently I was discussing the finer points of the engraving to letterpress wedding invitation comparison with a friend of mine that is getting married soon. These are the reasons that I suggested to her that letterpress printing is a better choice:
It is Less Expensive
Beyond anything else, letterpress printing provides nearly the same quality of product and unique character that engraving does for a fraction of the cost. Unless you really have the money, have a burning desire for engraving, or know someone that is going to give you an amazing deal, the added texture is not worth the increased costs.
Letterpress Has More Flexibility with Art
Engraved images are constrained by size and design limitations. Letterpress printing can provide a larger, more complex or image on an invitation set that gives brides more options for how they want their invitation to look.
Engraving Requires More Time
I do not know of a single engraving press that does not require the paper to be handfed. There are very few engraving printers around the country that are offering high quality wedding invitation designs making the choice, selection and turnaround time that much slower. Engravers simply cannot match the speed of letterpress printing.
As I said to my friend, I do not mean to speak poorly of the quality or say that I am not a fan of an amazingly engraved invitation. Rather, that for brides that are comparing letterpress printing to engraving, I would almost always suggest that letterpress printing is an overall better choice.
In this season of engagements, bridal parties and of course, letterpress wedding invitations, it is rare that our attention here at Invitations by Ajalon would be focused on anything but these exciting affairs.
But something has happened in the international arena that we cannot ignore. A national disaster in Haiti caused by a series of massive earthquakes necessitates our help in the relief efforts.
While we have made personal donations to several charities, we’d like to take it one step further. That is why we are proud to announce that during this wedding season we will be donating 100% of the price of every letterpress wedding invitation sample package ordered from us to Doctors Without Borders.
Doctors Without Borders is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, Doctors Without Borders provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.
While each individual gesture may seem small ($10), combined together our efforts can and will make a difference for the people in Haiti. There are countless charities that are tirelessly working in Haiti to bring much needed food, water and medical supplies to the displaced peoples. While on the home front the best thing we can do to support in this relief effort is to give donations and, if you are so inclined, to pray for the victims of this tragedy.
From everyone here at Invitations by Ajalon we would like to thank all the relief workers in Haiti. We are sending our support in all the ways we can, so that these workers are better able to serve the communities they are working in.
For the creative bride to be, paper selection for your wedding invitations can be a very important job. If you are like me and like a lot of options, then you will enjoy this display of eco chic, environmentally themed papers from Gmund.
Gmund has developed this paper with the extraordinary tree like texture in a wide variety of colors and it can be printed with both letterpress or standard offset presses.
This amazing style of paper is perfect for any ‘down to earth’ wedding celebration, and will certainly be a hit among your guests. If you are planning on any type of natural themed wedding celebration, this paper is a must have.
In the never ending quest to express your true self, especially by finding and creating personalized pieces for your wedding celebration, this paper is a great choice.
One of the things I was most excited about for the wedding was picking out a dress. I looked for about 4 months in magazines and online, and after my finals were over in April, we actually started looking. I first went to Priscilla of Boston (in Boston) by myself to get an idea of what I liked and what I didn’t like. I found a few that were beautiful, but unfortunately they were out of my price range, and I also wasn’t ready to commit on my first trip.
After that, I checked out a few shops in Atlanta when I was home visiting. We went to two shops, Priscilla of Boston (again) and New Natalie’s Bridal. We found a contender at each shop, a Priscilla and a Maggie Sottero, one that was significantly over-budget and one that was well under.
I decided to get more opinions from a few of my bridesmaids back in Boston. I was unable to find a shop in Boston that carried the style of Maggie Sottero that I liked, so we headed back to a Priscilla’s as well as to another local shop, Country Weddings in Hingham. We eliminated the Priscilla’s gown, but we loved Country Weddings, and I found a serious contender, an Alvina Valenta that came in rum pink, an ivory color with just a hint of pink. I wanted to wait for my mom to come up and help me decide, so I waited until May when she had a trip planned. We visited Country Weddings on the Friday and then drove to NYC to Kleinfeld. Our consultant was friendly but I couldn’t help but feel pressured. Long story short, I ended up ordering a dress, a Henry Roth Gown.
Here is the Henry Roth:
After I got home I started having nightmares about my dress, and after a week or two I decided to call and see if I could put my dress on hold until I could come back and try it on again. I scheduled my appointment for mid-July. I had a new consultant, and she seemed to get what I was going for and was totally fine with staying in my budget. She proceeded to bring me a plethora of dresses, most of which I didn’t care for. I even joined her in the dress stockroom and picked out a few.
Just as I thought that we were running out of options and that I was either going to have to settle for one that I had already tried on, but she came through at the end and pulled out a dress that was completely gorgeous and exactly what I had pictured. A Pnina Tornai, with all of the features that I wanted. It was a gown that had been canceled too late after it was ordered, so it was technically a sample gown although it was brand new and never tried on.
I was afraid it wouldn’t fit, as a lot of the samples are very small, but it was just about one size too big, and the perfect height with the shoes that I had already purchased for the wedding! I couldn’t believe it. The dress was still a bit out of my price point, but Joan the manager and my awesome consultant Moriah were able to get the price down to almost exactly what I had set for myself as a maximum budget. I won’t be showing a picture of mine, but here are some of the other beautiful dresses that Pnina makes (as seen at Kleinfeld):
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