Jen & Dave were married on Lake Sunapee in New London, New Hampshire this past fall. Last Spring {which seems crazy long ago!} I shared their vintage postcard inspired save the dates and now I am finally sharing their gorgeous wedding invitation suite. Jen has impeccable taste and knew she wanted a beautiful and coordinated suite that refelcted the elegant, secret garden inspired wedding she and Dave were planning.
Their suite is another take on the Willow invitation, now available in my ready-made collection, and it included an over-sized 5.5 x 8.5" invitation, reply card with an envelope, a map of the area around the wedding ceremony and reception, accommodations card, welcome dinner invitation and map of the location, and an outer envelope. Amazing, right? I love a couple who looooves paper! The envelope calligraphy was done by the ever-talented Jen of Pretty Pen Jen and worked perfectly with the invitation design.
All of the guests were invited to the welcome dinner, wedding ceremony and reception, and farewell brunch, so we were able to include everything on one reply card, including meal choices!
I love designing and printing maps and this suite had two! I designed one for the area around the wedding ceremony and reception, and another for the welcome dinner. The welcome dinner was being held on a private island that was a bit tricky to find, so the guests had a lovely letterpress map to follow. I was a bit daring with the large flood of dark color for the lake, but it came out beautifully.
Each piece was letterpress printed on 100% cotton paper in pearl white. The invitation was 220 lb. paper and the coordinating pieces were 110 lb. All pieces were printed with a deep aubergine ink and then corner-rounded.
beautiful set :)
Posted by: sarah.a | January 18, 2012 at 08:16 PM