Detail shots from Jennifer & Christian's wedding invitation suite. All letterpress printing by Studio On Fire.

The second set of invitations that I designed were for Jennifer and Christian who were married in the oldest Catholic church in Buffalo and celebrated their reception at Shea’s Theatre, a cultural landmark in downtown Buffalo. This suite was also letterpress printed with Studio on Fire on Canaletto Grana Grossa Bianco in a 111# cover weight.

The invitations were square, featuring a vintage looking flourish. To play up the theatre aspect, the reception card was designed to look like a vintage ticket. (“Tale of Three Cities” alludes to the cities the couple has lived to together: Buffalo, Tokyo & New York City.) They were also enclosed in tiny red envelopes that were stamped with a calligraphed sentiment. The RSVP card was designed as a postcard and guests were invited to write a note or draw a picture on the backs of them for Jen and Chris to keep as a keepsake. They also featured a line from the couple’s first dance song, “Can’t Fight This Feeling”.

The suite was mailed in a black envelope with the return address letterpressed in silver ink on the flap. (Not shown to protect the couple’s mailing address.) These were also lined with the song lyrics from their first dance song. Small ceremony program covers were also letter pressed at the same time as the invitation suite and were later bound with red and white twine.

Detail shots from Vyshali & Amar's wedding invitation suite. All letterpress printing by Studio on Fire.

I had the pleasure of designing wedding invitation suites for two sets of friends who tied the knot last weekend. The first set were for Vyshali & Amar who had a traditional Hindu wedding.

These were letterpress printed by Studio on Fire on Cranes Lettra Pearl White in a 220# cover weight. The mini hot pink envelopes were rubber stamped with white embossing ink and held the directions and accommodations.

The bride loves gerbera daisies but wanted to keep the feel of these traditional yet modern. We came up with this motif from searching through books of traditional Indian textile patterns and felt that this was what we were looking for and, in a funny way, looked like the daisies she loves so much.

Save the Date by Kate Arends. Printing by Studio on Fire.

Kate Arend’s save the dates for her own wedding are absolutely stunning. (via Kate’s blog, wit + delight)

Ribbon by Erin Jang. Available at Bella Figura.

I saw the new designs for Bella Figura via Ellie of Mint today and loved what I saw.

The new designs are from extremely talented designers such as Erin Jang, Jessica Hische, and Ellie herself! There are so many amazing additions… so hard to pick just one to show you! Be sure to see them all on the Bella Figura website.

Wedding invitation by Perky Bros. and produced by Studio on Fire.

I cannot get over the typography. I am absolutely floored by this wedding invitation set produced by the amazing Studio on Fire and designed by the super talented groom Jefferson Perky of Perky Bros. The invite was offset with the wood grain pattern and then the type was letter pressed. A save the date, invite, accommodations card, custom belly band and thank you card were produced. See more of this suite on Beast Pieces.

Detail of the digital offset vellum overlay and letterpressed invitation produced by Studio on Fire.

Sorry the site’s been out of whack the past few days. Thank you to everyone who has been so kind as to alert me of the issue via emails and Twitter. (And extra shouts to Stefan who was kind enough to fix it for me.)

Now that that’s out of the way, please allow me to indulge in some navel gazing and blatant endorsing… I recently had the immense pleasure of working with Ben & Selina over at Studio on Fire to produce a pretty complicated invitation I designed for an upcoming wedding. Seriously, if anyone is looking for a printer, pleeaaaase drop them a line because they were so attentive, thorough and all around lovely people to work with.

Ben & Selina recently did a write up of the invitations they produced for me on their blog, Beast Pieces if you’d like to check it out and see more photos.

Detail shots of the engagement book designed and printed by Studio on Fire.

I’ve been loving the Studio on Fire blog, Beast Pieces for the past few weeks as they’ve been updating more frequently with current projects. Their advice for preparing files and choosing inks and papers for letterpress and other printing is proving quite invaluable… definitely bookmark this as a great resource.

The work shown above completely blew me away. (Of course, most of their work does but this… wow.) They were commissioned to design an engagement book consisting of a collection of emails between a couple that were eventually letterpress printed and bound. I especially love that blind impression on the french folds. Gorgeous work.

Hunt and Gather Gocco 5 (phone), framed $85, unframed $55. Hunt and Gather Gocco 2 (perfume), framed $45, unframed $20. Both prints are signed and numbered limited edition multi-colour gocco prints with metallic ink in editions of 30.

Love the retro illustrations from Lab Partners in San Francisco. The limited-edition prints above are from their exhibition at the Outré Gallery called “Hunt and Gather.”

Check out their fab Etsy shop as well! (Gotta love letterpressed posters of San Francisco!)

From the portfolio.

Spied Alisha’s work from Palindrome Press on Brooklyn Bride and had to post… The work is so unlike most studios… and it’s totally amazing. Chelsea & Ben’s invite above is my favorite. See Palindrome Press’ Etsy shop here. Please also note that Alisha is offering a 15% discount on custom orders placed this month.

Blue on blue invitation, by Moon Tree Press.

Rebecca of Moontree Press is over at the Design*Sponge guest blog talking about The Handmade Wedding for the next two weeks. She’s got two posts up already and both are chock full of fantastic and creative ideas. Be sure to keep reading all week. Please also be sure to check out her own blog which showcases the amazing letterpress work she does.