Our wedding invitations
I can't believe it has been a little over a year since our wedding. I loved all the personal touches that we added to the day and I really enjoyed creating the invitations, favors, and thank you cards. I have included a few images of each piece below.
My inspiration for our invitations was the classic 1985 Merchant-Ivory movie version of E.M. Forster's A Room with a View. The display font, Delphin, and water-colored floral frame are based on the lavishly painted scene introductions in the movie. We created a logo for our initials and used it for our wax seal and postage stamps. The gate-fold invitation also held a matching sage reply card and wine-colored reply envelope.
The theme of our reception was literature - the centerpiece on each table included a vintage hard cover book and a mounted print of a love quote from the book. My husband expertly chose the titles and painstakingly searched through each for the best quotes. Each guest took away a letterpress bookmark as a favor. The bookmark featured a Walt Whitman quote, the last four lines of "Song of Myself" (this quote was also the benediction at our marriage ceremony), and a silhouette of the William Penn statue on top of City Hall in Philadelphia. The bookmarks were printed by a letterpress company in Ohio called Cranky Pressman. He wasn't cranky at all!
Our thank you cards were printed on a letterpress, using our wine-colored wedding color on a soft white Crane paper. I drew the little palm trees for the design because we both love the beach and our honeymoon was planned for Zihuatanejo, MX.
My inspiration for our invitations was the classic 1985 Merchant-Ivory movie version of E.M. Forster's A Room with a View. The display font, Delphin, and water-colored floral frame are based on the lavishly painted scene introductions in the movie. We created a logo for our initials and used it for our wax seal and postage stamps. The gate-fold invitation also held a matching sage reply card and wine-colored reply envelope.
The theme of our reception was literature - the centerpiece on each table included a vintage hard cover book and a mounted print of a love quote from the book. My husband expertly chose the titles and painstakingly searched through each for the best quotes. Each guest took away a letterpress bookmark as a favor. The bookmark featured a Walt Whitman quote, the last four lines of "Song of Myself" (this quote was also the benediction at our marriage ceremony), and a silhouette of the William Penn statue on top of City Hall in Philadelphia. The bookmarks were printed by a letterpress company in Ohio called Cranky Pressman. He wasn't cranky at all!
Our thank you cards were printed on a letterpress, using our wine-colored wedding color on a soft white Crane paper. I drew the little palm trees for the design because we both love the beach and our honeymoon was planned for Zihuatanejo, MX.
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