Vintage Airmail-Inspired Letterpress Wedding Invites

May 06, 2011

Earlier this week, I posted about this amazing, airmail-inspired wedding suite for a Costa Rica wedding over at Paper Crave, but it’s such a fantastic suite that I really wanted to share it over here, too. Graphic designer, Bryan Crabtree, designed these invitations for his April wedding to Lauren, and the result is a suite that’s unique and filled with terrific details – letterpress printed stamp and emblem illustrations, topographical map lines that create a terrific textured look, lovely typography, and a coordinating tag that literally helps tie the entire suite together. The suite was letterpress printed by Studio on Fire.

Ready for some invitation eye candy?

image source: Bryan Crabtree

Letterpress Matchbook Invitations for a Summer Wedding

March 01, 2011

Last month, Martha Stewart Weddings held a giveaway for a custom letterpress wedding invitation suite by the amazing Studio on Fire, and the lucky winners were Juan and Irma, whose Night of San Juan wedding inspired this wonderfully unique matchbook invitation suite.

The Night of San Juan is a Spanish festival which coincides with the summer solstice and is celebrated with beach parties and bonfires, and the orange and white palette – pre-determinded as a part of the giveaway and inspired by the colors of the Martha Stewart Weddings Winter 2011 issue – was a perfect match (no pun intended) for Juan and Irma’s festive Madrid fete.

I love the letterpress printed sun, moon, and star details that carry throughout the pieces in the suite and symbolize the arrival of the summer solstice, and the presentation of the event details in matchbook style is so charming and fun for this festive, informal celebration.

image source: Martha Stewart Weddings (via Beast Pieces)

Mid-Century Modern Typographic Wedding Invitations

September 14, 2010

Jaw, meet floor. When I spot a detail like this monogram, created using a feather-like variation of an ultra cool font like Sessions by John Skelton, I know that I’m about to be amazed, and that’s exactly what happened as I drooled over the images of this mid-century style letterpress wedding invitation suite designed by Drew Hodgson for his wedding in Palm Springs, CA and printed by the always awesome Studio on Fire.

The wedding will be held at a mid-century hotel in Palm Springs, and the playful, modular shapes of the Sessions font are the perfect choice to compliment the venue. The invitation is actually a folder enclosure that opens to reveal wedding details on the flap, adding to the fun, playful tone.

Details like the wonderfully colorful bursts, letterpress monogrammed envelopes, and illustrated hummingbird and swirly cloud bands really make this wedding invitation suite so special.

You can see more images from this amazing mid-century modern suite and read more about the techniques and materials used to create the pieces over at the Studio on Fire blog.

images from Studio on Fire/Beast Pieces