Invitation and insert: Letterpress Printed 2/0 (Light Green + Brown) on chipboard.
Envelope: 2/0 with green on green and a brown overlay.

I had a great opportunity to work on wedding invitations for a friend and his bride recently. There were no real constraints but a request for something poster like. They has a few colors that they liked but left the major choice up to me. After I played with standard 5″ x 7″ formats and nothing seemed to flow like I wanted it to so I started looking at #10 policy envelopes that opened on the end. Once I switched the format everything just started flowing together nicely for this custom letterpress invitation package.

I had a incredible opportunity to print a wedding invitation designed by a bride from Spain. This invitation needed to be printed and shipped on a truncated timeline. It ended up being a 2 color 2 sided invitation with a blind deboss the front. We printed it on Lettra 110# Pearl White cover.

Gilbert paper makes a great, but expensive, line of papers. Esse is the line I am talking about. This wedding package uses the Pearlized Latte 100# textured cover. I LOVE IT! It however needs a bit of specialty ink so it can fully dry. We had to find a fully oxidizing ink because the paper will not absorb it. But the end product definitely has got some FLASH. This package consists of a Save the date, 3 part main invitation, reply postcard and thank you card. Needless to say it has been a HUGE learning curve. This project has definitely taken me twice as long figuring out the best way to run this paper on my presses. The great part is it was all worth it!