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Romantic Wedding Invitations for Valentines Day!

Sam — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:30:34 +0000

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of our wedding couples and designers! To get you in the mood for romance why not take a look at our latest inspirations board for some great ideas for romantic wedding invitations. Add romantic lovebirds, hearts or roses to your wedding invitation design – pretty pinks and sumptuous red will be sure to get your wedding day off to a wonderfully romantic start! For added luxury wrap your ribbon in gorgous ribbons of silk, satin, lace or organza. And why not add wonderfully romantic script typeface and calligraphy to your wedding stationery for that extra special touch. Take a peek at some of the wonderful ideas from our designers below and have a wonderful valentines day!

Little Angel Weddings

Letterpress of Cirencester

Wedding Paraphernalia

Inspired Invites and Invite in the Post

Knots and Kisses

Piccolo Press – Quality Letterpress Wedding Invitations

Sam — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:30:36 +0000

We are absolutely delighted to introduce the latest wedding stationery studio to join the Wedding Invitation Shop community! Piccolo Press is a traditional and specialist printing company, established by Tim Honnor in 1985. It has an enviable reputation, producing both traditional wedding invitations and contemporary wedding stationery of exceptional quality. The Press is highly recommended by Debrett’s Guide to Correspondence and approved suppliers to Royal Warrant Holders, HM Forces and Diplomats.

In 2009 they were proud to have been commended by “Print Week” as Social Stationery Printer of the Year”. They were also winner of the VOWS Award (Voted Outstanding Wedding Stationery Supplier)

The look and luxurious tactile feel of an embossed or letterpress image into a thick high quality card, speaks for itself. These cards, mainly hand fed and printed in small runs are far different from the mass production of so many cards. The finish and boards used really do have to be seen to appreciate their superb quality. Whether letterpress, thermography, engraving, diestamping, blind embossing, plate sinking or foil blocking, you can be sure of exceptional quality wedding invitations and stationery. If you are confused about all of these printing techniques, and which to choose, we will be publishing a handy guide tomorrow with the help of Tim Honnor from Piccolo Press.

Piccolo Press offer an entirely bespoke service, so if you have an idea for a design, they will work with you to see your ideas transformed into beautiful wedding stationery. Contact Piccolo Press directly to find out more about how thay can help you to design your perfect wedding stationery.

Wedding Invitation Calligraphy – write it in style!

Sam — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:50:00 +0000

Nothing makes your wedding more personal than handwritten wedding invitations. Why not make your wedding invitations stand out from the crowd and handwrite your invitations with beautifully romantic calligraphy. From the wonderfully romantic copperplate style to classic italic and contemporary freestyle – calligraphy (which means ‘beautiful writing) can add a touch of romance and glamour to all your wedding stationery. A great number of styles are available to suite every wedding theme – Roman capitals, copperplate, italic, gothic and antique – you can mix with beautiful ink colours to add real elegance to your wedding day.

Calligraphy works fantastically with scroll wedding invitations and traditional wedding invitations but you can choose some wonderful freestyle calligraphy to add sparkle to your contemporary wedding invitations too.

If you are not the most creative writer you can get a professional calligrapher to write your invitations for you. Claire Gould at www.wedding-calligrapher.com has written thousands of place cards, envelopes and invitations, and hundreds of poems in calligraphy for all kinds of clients. Take a look at some of her work below to see how you can add that ‘wow’ factor to your wedding stationery.

Calligraphy for your wedding favour tags

Calligraphy in real gold leaf!

Vintage… calligraphy for your wedding place cards

Calligraphy commission of a poem by Christina Georgina

Wedding homily in calligraphy

Gothic wedding calligraphy

Lovely chocolate brown wedding invitation envelopes were addressed by hand in copperplate calligraphy, written in gold gouache!

Wedding poem scroll in beautiful italic calligraphy>