Take a look at some of the beautiful new wedding invitation designs by Belle of the Ball below or contact them directly for your own bespoke design – www.belleoftheball.org.uk

‘Sera & Guto’ – 5×7″ envelofold invitation. Shown in hot pink and graphite bloom, but colours and pattern can be adapted to couple own colour scheme. Enclosure opens up like flower petals to reveal invitation within. Held together with hand-tied hot pink ribbon. Price: £3.90

‘Laura & Ben Invitation’ – 5×5″ pocket fold invitation. Shown in black and peacock blue, but can be adapted to couples own colour scheme. Set includes triple layered invitation, double layered insert and double layered reply card with envelope. Front of pocket features a triple layered tab with Damask graphics and couples name. Price: £5.95

‘Jonea & Ivan Invitation’ – 5×5″ pocket fold invitation. Shown in graphite grey and majestic purple, but can be adapted to couples own colour scheme. Set includes double layered invitation and insert, and single layered reply card with envelope. Front of pocket features a single layered tab with matching graphics and couples name. Price: £5.95

‘Dani & Chris’ - 4×5″ save the date card. Shown in chocolate and lime green, but can be adpated to couples own colour scheme. Includes triple layered save the date with envelope. Price: £1.85

‘Sue & Colin’ – 5×5″ layered invitation. Shown in black and white, but can be adapted. Included triple layered invitation and matching envelope. Price: £2.20

‘Sophia & Daniel’ – 4×5″ pocket fold invitation. Shown in navy blue and gold and hint of regalia pattern, but can be adapted to couples own colour scheme. Set includes double layered invitation and single layered insert and reply card with envelope. Front of enclosure embellished with triple layered tab for couples name and wedding date. Price: £5.75

The Gilded Style invitation is similar to Insignia – printed in two colours, raised Gold for the entwined initials and black letterpress for the Trajan type, biting into the heavy weight gilt bevel edge Oyster Wove board.

A wonderful traditional wedding invitation with a modern twist!

You can also receive a 10% DISCOUNT on any Letterpress of Cirencester wedding stationery order with The Wedding Invitation Shop. You can view all of the styles, order samples or place orders here.

Insignia Wedding Invitation

Gilded Wedding Invitation

Little Angel Weddings

Letterpress of Cirencester

Wedding Paraphernalia

Xoxo

Olivia Samuel

Red Nell Designs

Piccolo Press

Linda Abrahams

Inspired Invites and Invite in the Post

Knots and Kisses

With more seasonal flowers becoming available, Spring is a great time to use softer colours in pastel shades and softer hues – like yellow, baby blue, green, pinks and lavender.  We love the following colour combinations:

Preppy pink and mint green  – this color combination couldn’t be more spring-like, and is perfect for a beautiful, fresh spring wedding

Petal pink or baby blue with chocolate accents – lovely for a chocolate Easter theme!

Blue and white – a classic, fresh colour combination

Green and ivory – Softer greens like sage green or mint

Lavender and Yellow

When it comes to wedding invitations for a Spring wedding, flowers and floral patterns are the most popular  but butterflies and birds can also add a Spring-like feel.   Add soft organza or satin ribbons in pastel colours to make your invitations pretty, pretty, pretty!  Enjoy our choice of some lovely Spring ideas …

Little Angel Weddings

Little Angel Weddings

Letterpress of Cirencester

XOXO

Bee Happy Designs

Paper Passion Design

Piccolo Press

Red Nell Designs

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.

Shelley – “Originally my plan was to make these myself – I have a decent printer – know my way around a computer and am known to be a little crafty – but after researching other peoples invites on flickr I came across some beautiful examples of Letterpressed invitations by Bella Figura.

This led me on a search to find a UK based Letterpress company – it wasn’t long before I came across the wonderful Blush Publishing! The ever diligent and eternal night owl Mark Moran was extremely helpful and patient whilst I dithered about what design I wanted. Originally I had planned a funky square invite with motifs representing myself and Wayne. Wayne would be easy – an xbox controller (!) and maybe mine would have been a pair of scissors or a needle or a mouse? But as the wedding plans took shape and the vintage element really kicked in I just had to work this into the theme!

Quickly I decided on a 1950′s postcard style and used an example from the fantastic resource which is deviantART to use as my inspiration. I really wanted to incorporate my own artwork for this and knew deep down that computer graphics would look too stiff so I dusted off my sketchbook and got to work . .

Once the artwork was finished, I scanned it, tidied it up in Photoshop then turned it into paths for Illustrator where I could work on the text. I have always loved the look of old fashioned typewriter fonts, they remind me of my art school days when I used my old Olivetti to create many a bizarre text based piece! But I also love the trendy carnival style fonts you see a lot these days. Every waking minute I spent trying to get the look and the wording right – I even sent what I thought was the final proof off to be printed with several errors in my haste and bleary-eyed state!

But shortly after everything was finalised Mark and the clever bunch at Blush turned my design into the loveliness which is below. Even the cute wrapping added to the wonderful experience which is letterpress!”

The Letter Press of Cirencester is certainly not new to the market, they have been printing superb quality letterpress wedding stationery since 1986 and the quality of their products really does need to be seen to be believed.  They have recently launched some wonderful new designs for 2010 to add to their, already fabulous, collection.

The Wedding Invitation Shop is very proud to work along side the Letter Press and we are able to offer bridal couples a 10% discount on the entire range of beautiful stationery. They offer a full service, covering engagement announcements,wedding and evening invitations, reply cards, orders of service, menus, place cards and thank you cards. 

Their service is individual. The designs are based on simple classical styles, which you can either adopt as they are, or use as a starting point for your own designs. They are able to add or adapt any of the features shown on the website: plate sinking, using decorative motifs, borders or ribbons, different ink or typefaces. These can all be mixed and matched to create a special look, unique to your wedding.

Please visit their website to view their full range of wedding invitations. You can order a free sample either directly from them or from us.  Once you have decided upon your order just contact us by email to place your order and receive your 10% discount.  Take a look at some of their wonderful new designs below:

From James at Beanswave:“Wedding invites are not something Beanwave have been asked to do before, but when the brief was “we’re getting married… in the Ice Hotel in Swedish Lapland… there’s also a second reception/party in England a week later for those that can’t make it to the Arctic Circle… we need invites… and they can be as creative as you like”, then that’s the kind of job that gets the juices flowing at beanwave. And the client? Well that was me and the soon-to-be Mrs Bristow, so they had to be good.

An invitation to any event should set the tone and give recipients a sense of anticipation and excitement. Our idea? Let’s create an invite that reflects a ‘wedding of two halves’, and post it in a box of snow. Simple.

So in October 2009 each of our guests received a box through the post. The outside address label contained the quote:

“A snowflake is one of nature’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together”

Upon opening the box, each recipient received an avalanche of snow-like polystyrene balls over-spilling from the box. Then inside, under the ‘snow’, they found an invitation card with a photo of a heart carved from ice.

On first opening, the card revealed two sides – one for the Ice Hotel Wedding the other for the Woburn reception. The card then opened out again to reveal a montage of bride and groom photos from childhood through the years.

The other detail was using appropriate lyrics from Beatles songs. These were subtly printed on the cards using spot varnish so they could only be seen when light catches at the right angle. The reason for this was that we had booked a Beatles tribute band for the reception, but wanted to keep them as a surprise. (This theme was also carried through to the reception where the table names were Eleanor, Sadie, Rita, Lucy, Prudence & Martha!)

Although they cursed us when still finding little balls of snow for weeks later, the reaction was great, recipients really loved this unusual, modern wedding invite. Both days were fantastic occasions, the Ice Hotel was an amazing place, and the Upbeat Beatles were a massive hit. Happy days indeed.”