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Wedding Chic - Invitations
You aren’t limited to sending a note engraved with gold ink on ecru card stock. Or with black ink written in a formal calligraphy font. Whether using a boutique stationer, a national chain, or even doing it yourself on your home computer, at specialty stores, craft stores, and online you’ll find gorgeous papers and embellishments that visually represent your personal style and the formality level of your celebration. You can use handmade specialty papers from India with letterpress printing. You can ornament the card with an embossed seal, a silk ribbon, a twig, or a sparkling crystal for some bling. You can have the paper custom cut in an over scaled size that matches the grandeur of a white-tie ball, or use a card with hand-torn edges rolled in a scroll to evoke a country look. You can create a logo to use on everything from the invitations to the matchbooks that you leave in crystal ashtrays on the hotel piano. Some choices are costly while others won’t break any bank; but either way, if you can imagine it, it can be done—the sky’s the limit!
Custom-Dyed Ribbon
For a simple beach wedding, the light card stock is printed with sand-colored ink, and this custom-dyed ribbon reflects the secondary colors of the wedding - mango and watermelon.
Gift Wrapping
We bought every available square inch of this Anglo-Indian paper, and used it for the invitation's border, to line the envelope, on the menu card for the reception, and anywhere else paper was called for. In fact, this paper pretty much dictated the color scheme of the whole wedding.
Sari Silk
For an Asia-inspired wedding, sari silk covers the bifold, and the interior panel includes the invitation copy with the bride's and groom's names in gold and their initials in the center of a gold lotus blossom.
Custom-Lettered Note
A fun way to send invitations is in the form of personalized note cards, which are printed by letterpress. A calligrapher then handwrites the name of each invitee in the same style and ink as the printing, giving the illusion that each invitation was written entirely by hand.
Extrathick Stock
For an art deco theme in the style of the 1930s, this extremely thick card is debossed and printed in blue with a thick silver beveled edge.
