If you are looking for a fun and simple way to beautify your wedding invitation, then look no further. I am here to tell you about all the cool and easy things you can do to ensure your wedding invitation is as beautiful as possible.

Utilizing the inside flap of the envelope, this letterpress invitation design carries the extra color idea to a new arena. Combining rich,  italian paper with the invitation set, this extra style will amaze your wedding guests.

Our Kira invitation set utilizes a second layer of red paper to contrast with the ink color and accent the whole presentation. The second layer elegantly frames the invitation and adds a passionate glow to your wedding theme. This is a great way to introduce a second color to your invitation set for a very minimal cost.

A retro South Beach invitation set, this design adds a pleasant second color by using a pocket folder. This design is enhanced by the use of a lovely silver folder to bind all invitation pieces together. Available in different colors and for different designs, a pocket folder makes an excellent addition to any invitation set.

Alternately, you can always choose to use an envelope in a different color. This Dogwood design utilizes a chocolate brown envelope lined with pale pink that ties the invitation set together nicely. With this added color, the invitation can stay the same, but the overall presentation is enriched.

Adding extra color to your letterpress wedding invitation is easy and fun. It generates an extra special feel that you cannot achieve by any other process. While letterpress wedding invitations are superbly exquisite in just one ink color, there is always room for improvement and more color. There are many ways to go about this and it fits with almost any design. Now, the toughest decision to make may be, what colors do I want?

Written by Nick

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One of the most important things to remember when designing your letterpress wedding invitations, is the importance of picking a font that captures the theme of your event. Fonts come in all shapes, sizes and colors, so it is important the fonts on your invitation reflect the vision you have for your wedding.

Formal - Many brides dream of having a traditional wedding with all the timeless customs and formalities. Integrating that classic 18th century feeling into your letterpress wedding invitation is the perfect way to emphasize this feeling. Our Baroque invitation wonderfully integrates style, stateliness and elegance.

Casual - With all the pressure, cost and time it takes to plan a large wedding, many brides are choosing to have a smaller, more casual wedding. The great way to let your guests know the event will not be the usual formal affair is through your invitation, and fonts are a great way to do that. Our Serenity letterpress wedding invitation is a beautiful, modest yet sophisticated rendition of a casually styled font.

Whimsical - A sense of humor is an important thing in today’s world. A recent trend in weddings has been to integrate whimiscal, yet tasteful, fonts and words into the wedding invitations. Not only is this perfect to reflect the personalities of the bride and groom, but it sets the mood for the wedding. Capitalizing on their zany story of love, this font and word choice captures the spirit of this couple to be.

Retro - People everywhere are reaching to the past to re-experience the styles they once loved. Pulling from an ‘old school’ idea to capture the essence of a wedding is an idea that is building momentum. Our new Chopin style letterpress wedding invitation utilizes a font that expresses this emotion. A retro feeling in a chic, artistic invitation.

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Every bride has a reason for choosing the location for their wedding. For some brides it is a dream since childhood and for others it is a place with a wonderful memory. I choose my wedding location for both reasons, it was a place close to my heart and holds so many memories. Since choosing the location for your wedding is so important, why not use the location of the wedding in the design for your letterpress wedding invitation set? These are my favorite invitations that were designed with location in mind:

• Calliandra - This is a beautiful flower that grows down by Mexico and in the Southwest. This would be a great design for a wedding in that region of Northern America.

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• Key West - Our design was derived from the warm, sunny beaches of Florida. This design is great for destination weddings in the Bahamas or any other beach/island location. Click here to order a free sample of this invitation design.

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• Zinfandel - Wineries and the vineyards surrounding them are some of the most beautiful wedding venues in Northern California. Here in Sonoma Wine country, many wineries cater to weddings. Our Zinfandel design is perfect for a winery wedding with its delicate grapevine wreath surrounding a monogram.

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• Malulani – One of my mother’s close friends choose this letterpress wedding design for her wedding invitations. Her wedding was in Hawaii and this design was just perfect.

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Coming Next Week – “The Beauty and Her Beast”

Colleen
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Your invitation sets the expectations for your special event. The design you choose-with its paper, style and wording-communicates more than just the time and date of your wedding.

Using letterpress gives you the option of using a wide range of paper, including handmade, organic, and tree free. Probably, no other form of imaging on paper allows you to utilize such a wide range of choices. The classic feel and finish of letterpress papers take us back to an era of quality and craftsmanship that is not often found today.

You actually see and feel the impression of the type into the paper. This is not some process where a machine runs at such speed that parts are just a blur. It harkens back to a time when excellence was the desired result, not expediency.