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  • NEW 2019 Letterpress Wedding Invitations

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    Five new letterpress wedding invitation designs are out! Let’s take a look: FERN Tonal green-on-green letterpress with crisp copper foil, Fern is one of three new 2019 designs on our Parklife Colors paper. Great for island weddings, rainforest rehearsal dinners, deep woods baby showers, you name it.  We like to pair the Forest green invitation…

  • Formal Earthtones

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    This custom set is adapted from our Mount-Hood-inspired Peak invitation, but without the peak. PAPER Oversized 300g Somerset Soft WhiteINK Tungsten & DustENVELOPE LINER Dust

  • Coquette + Fiore

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    A perfect combination of our Coquette and Fiore invitation designs. Garamond caps and Aphrodite type in Fog ink along with the blind pressed Fiore art.

  • Tigers & Lemons

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    These oversized square invitations feature our Tungsten letterpress ink along with a digitally printed “tigers & lemons” wedding seal provided by the couple. As they put it, “Tiger” is the bride’s term of endearment for the groom as he is the fourth Shoemaker to hold “Tigert” as his middle name. “Lemons” is the groom’s term…

  • New Parklife Invitation Style: Paige

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    Occasionally we design a custom invitation for a client, and we love it so much we decide to keep it for ourselves. This one, originally designed for Paige and Clayton’s January wedding, will soon be added to Parklife’s wedding collection. The new Paige invitation set is printed with black ink and a blind impression on…

  • Ontario Blossoming

    Ontario Blossoming

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    Gabriel & Aida saw two of our most popular wedding invitations, our Ontario and Blossom styles, and asked, “why choose?”. Why not Ontariossom? Or Blosstario?  With our help, they combined the modern typefaces and sleek black / white / silver color scheme of our Ontario style with the classic floral motif from our Blossom design.

  • A Mount Hood Wedding

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    Perhaps you saw our 2013 blog post detailing the underused letterpress technique of halftone screens. In short, we can use tiny dots and on-paper ink mixing to create the illusion of gradations and multiple ink colors. For Robyn and Luke’s Timberline Lodge wedding, we used just two inks (a very light gray and a dark blueish-gray) to…

  • Foil, Door Tags, and Alligators

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    It’s great when we get to work with a wedding client from the very beginning – starting with the save the dates, moving on to the invitations, and then following through to the wedding day pieces. We did this for Elisa and Alexander, shifting the design vision slightly throughout the process while still maintaining a cohesive…

  • Formal, with Flourishes

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    Alexandra and Michael were planning a black-tie, traditional Catholic wedding, and wanted their invitation to reflect that style. Alex was drawn to the Fountain design — seeing how the layout’s simplicity put the elaborate font on display, she was, as she put it, “hooked.” Deceptively simple in design, the typeface features intricate and playful ligatures…

  • Old World Charm in New York City

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    The beauty of a classic, calligraphic invitation puts the emphasis on the writing. Here, in a invitation based on Quill, with custom calligraphy by Monica Rachel Lima, the swirls and flourishes of the text sets the tone for an elegant and festive occasion. The black ink on thick, pearl white paper stock is set off…