Spruce Up Your Invitation with a 2^nd Ink Color

There’s no doubt in my mind that 75% of my wedding planning process will be coming up with the perfect color combination! What are your wedding colors?

Sometimes I think just one color will be enough, but then I remember how much fun utilizing different colors within one wedding can be! After all, I don’t want my bridesmaids blending in with my decorations; I want everything to stand out on its own, and a pop of new color is the perfect way to make sure everything is seen.

I love perusing The Perfect Palette for color inspiration. Chrissy selects amazing combinations and includes awesome inspiration boards to get you excited about your wedding! You can even request your own palette!

The Perfect Palette

After you’ve chosen your color scheme, ask us how we can customize your letterpress wedding invitation with a second ink color! Little accents that stand out are so sweet and create an ideal balance within your design.

Here are some examples of our invitations printed in two ink colors:

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Pre-wedding Event Cards for Indian Weddings

Indian weddings are traditionally large and lavish events. There are many different parts to the celebrations, and often brides find themselves needing more than the mere wedding invitation when planning their Indian-inspired bash.

One of the biggest parts of the Indian ceremony that will require its own invitation or RSVP card is the Sangeet party. Both the bride and groom’s families gather to sing and dance the night away.

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Where traditionally the Sangeet celebration lasted up to ten days, it has become a one night affair that requires its own invitation or RSVP card.

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Guide Your Guests in the Right Direction with Map Cards

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Maps and direction cards are super helpful to include with your wedding invitation. When all guests have the same map, there’s no doubt they’ll show up on time and at the right location!

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What Will Your Fall Wedding Invitation Look Like?

Every bride likes to know what the current trends are in the wedding invitation world. When planning your wedding invitation designs, it is good to know what the up and coming trends are in the wedding invitation arena. To save you the time of scouring the web for all things wedding invitation related, I decided to give you a brief summary of the three most important fall wedding invitation trends:

Letterpress Printing

No surprise that letterpress printing is still on the rise. As our world becomes more digital and ‘flat,’ letterpress wedding invitation designs have been gaining momentum in the hearts and minds of brides all around the world. The deep impressions and understated aesthetic of letterpress wedding invitations cannot be matched by any other printing method, and are the number one trendy item for brides this fall.

Special Offers

In tough economic times, every bride is looking for a way to save a little extra money on their fall wedding plans. That is why spending a little extra time searching for discounts or specials on letterpress wedding invitations can end up saving you hundreds of dollars. Ask the printer you are thinking of working with if they have any discounts on affordable wedding invites.

Foil Stamping

No longer reserved only for the most elite of invitations, foil stamping is entering the mainstream this wedding season. With affordable prices and a whole selection of personalized colors, foil stamping on letterpress wedding invitations is the perfect way to announce your wedding.

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Wedding Invitations Cards with Hindu Inspiration

There is nothing I like more than new Indian style letterpress wedding invitation card designs. Over the past couple months we have been hard at working preparing for the upcoming wedding season. Including letterpress printing, hot foil stamping, blind impressions and many different colors of ink and paper, these 4 new Indian themed designs are the latest additions to our ever growing wedding invitation gallery.

Our Rana 1 Indian wedding card design combines a fun traditional pattern with a unique baronial motif. It is an elegant invitation letterpress wedding invitation card design that is appropriate for any event.

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My favorite letterpress wedding invitation card design of all time, Sindhu combines the elegance of gold foil stamping with an almost magical paisley pattern. This Hindu inspired wedding invitation card includes some of the most delicate and intricate printing techniques I have ever seen.

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Speaking of paisley patterns, our new Devi wedding invitation card integrates a beautiful blind letterpress impression with a tint varnish that subtly highlights its curves.

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If different colors are what you are looking for, then consider our Indian inspired Avani wedding invitation card design. Available either letterpress printed or foil stamped, Avani looks amazing with any color paper.

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No matter what you are looking for, we have the wedding invitation card design solution. Our helpful staff and design professionals can mix and match colors, papers, designs and themes to ensure that your invitation is a product of your inspiration.

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Autumn Trends for Wedding Ceremonies

Fall is just around the corner so for all you brides that will shortly be saying “I Do” it is already time to start doing some wedding planning. One of the first orders of business is ordering wedding invitations. Every bride needs them and wants theirs to be extra special and make a strong impression upon their guests.

To help you get the most out of your wedding invitation experience, I have compiled a list of the 3 hottest fall trends when it comes to wedding invitation sets.

Letterpress Printing

Letterpress printing for wedding invitations is a growing movement for obvious reasons. The deep impression and understated aesthetic that letterpress printing provides cannot be duplicated by any other printing methods.

Devi South Asian Letterpress Wedding Invitation

Go Eco-Chic

Going green is no longer a countercultural movement, it is trend that benefits everyone. Ordering your wedding invitations on tree free or bamboo paper makes a great impression on your guests while lessening your impact on the earth.

Bamboo Design on Tree Free Cotton Paper

Unique Stationery

With their eco-chic letterpress wedding invitations, brides are choosing personalized and uncommon stationery to compliment their invitation sets. There are a million and one types of textured, soft, sparkly and thick paper that will set your letterpress invitation set apart from the rest, all you have to do is ask.

Tree Bark Texture Stationery

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While I was surfing around the internet recently, I stumbled upon this unintentionally laughable letterpress printing video. It features more industrial style letterpress printing techniques, but was filmed in the typical propaganda style methods that were so popular in this era.

What this movie illustrates, beyond the social and political atmosphere of the 1940’s, is that letterpress printing is a classical, vintage art form. Even today with the all the amazing technology available, the texture and style that letterpress wedding invitations deliver cannot be matched.

By the looks of it, this letterpress printing video was most likely used as a recruitment operation. Like everything made in the 1940’s, there is an element of excitement and enthusiasm in the commentators voice, even for the most mundane of printing tasks.

While many of the technical aspects of letterpress printing have changed with the advent of the computer, some of the same basic principles have stayed the same. The way the image is pressed into the paper, the constant attention to detail and color as well as the need for professional staff to make sure the entire operation is running smoothly.

If you have any questions about letterpress printing, please feel free to ask.

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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.

So we brought out the camera, set up the lights and action: Printing the Fleur letterpress wedding invitation design video!

For those of you without sound, I will include the commentary below.

“We recently printed one of our Fleur invitation sets and we wanted to make a video to show our letterpress printing in action.

Once we are done printing the invitation and the RSVP both go into the cutter.

After a few quick cuts your invitation is ready to be sent to your guest.”

I hope you enjoyed the short show!

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to email us or leave a comment below. Click here to request free samples.

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.

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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.

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I love letterpress printing. Everything from wedding invitations to holiday cards, baby shower announcements to Bar Mitzvahs, letterpress add an extra special texture and emotion that everyone can see and feel.

Part of the amazing qualities of printing with letterpress is the paper. Cranes Lettra 110# tree-free (100% cotton) paper feels amazing. It has a life and character of its own. The instant you touch a letterpress printed invitation you know that you are holding something special. The thick paper harkens back to an age of parchment and old documents that hold an extra special value in today’s world.

A lot of brides -to-be hold the misconception that this terrific paper can only be used for letterpress printing. But this is just not the case. Traditional offset presses can be used to print on Cranes Lettra paper, offering the same quality paper as letterpress printing. It is a great way to make sure all of your invitation set pieces feel the same even if you mix and match offset or letterpress printing.

So if you want to use letterpress to print your invitation but your RSVP or Map is printed on an offset press, know that you can still use the same quality of 110# Cranes Lettra cotton paper for those parts of the invitation set.

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