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CUSTOMIZATION

Of course, you can use whatever wording you'd like! Additional text can also be added to any piece at no extra cost. We're happy to add meal choices to response cards, reception information to the invitation, and so on. It's rare that we'll have difficulty fitting your text on a particular piece, but this does happen, especially with programs, menus, and direction or hotel cards. If we're having difficulty fitting your text, we'll let you know, so we can discuss the options: editing the text down, adding an additional piece, or printing that piece double-sided, with text on both the front and the back. We're always happy to assist with wording as well!

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All of our designs allow you to choose a different typeface from our Bella Typeface Library. There is no charge for this. Our typeface library contains a beautiful range of over thirty of our favorite letterpress typefaces, and we're certain that you'll find one or two that you'll love.

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Yes – that's part of the regular typesetting that we do at Bella Figura. It would be helpful to know what percentage bigger you'd like the typeface, or how high in inches or points you'd like the letters to be.

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Yes! We have 36 Bella inks for you to choose from. We also offer custom colors that will match anything: Pantone numbers, fabric samples, ribbons, even paint chips.

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Letterpress is a slow, meticulous and beautiful form of craft printing. We feel our consistently high quality printing is well worth the cost for the creation of suberb invitations or announcements. That said, here are a few thoughts on how to keep down the price of a set.

We have two tiers of envelopes, class A & class B. You'll want to choose from our class A envelopes, which are less expensive, and include the ultra-thick Bella envelopes, or the colorful Stella envelopes.

Also keep in mind that many of our 2-color designs could look fabulous as 1-color, which costs less. Even if you'd like your invitation to be in glorious 2-color printing, you can print additional pieces (save the date, thank you cards, etc.) in one color.

You can use a double-sided reply postcards for your set. It's a less expensive, and slightly less formal, option. Save the dates are also offered as double-sided postcards.

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PAPER & ENVELOPES

Letterpress has a lot of strengths: its deep rich ink tone, its textural impression into the paper, its ability to print on thick cotton papers, its history, and so forth. But printing light colored ink on dark paper is not one of letterpresses strengths, so we don't recommend printing white ink on cocoa envelopes, or other such combinations. If you'd like to incorporate a dark color into your envelopes -- chocolate, burgundy, or dark blue, for example -- we might recommend choosing white or soft white envelopes, and using a chocolate, burgundy, or dark blue lining.

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ORDERING

If you are inviting 100 guests, we would suggest ordering 125 invitations.

We sell our invitations in quantities of 25. Ordering additional quantities now is much less expensive than having us reprint 25 more invitation sets closer to the wedding date. Keep in mind calligraphers often need 10% additional envelopes, and if you're hand-addressing your invitations yourself, you still may want some extra envelopes in case of an address mistake. With your order, we do include 15 extra invitation envelopes (and 15 extra inner envelopes, if you order inner envelopes). Also keep in mind guest lists have a way of mysteriously expanding. We might recommend ordering 5-10% more than you think you need – but that decision really depends on you (and how certain you are of your guest list, and how certain you are of your handwriting!).

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If you print your either your save the dates or your thank you notes at the same time as your invitation suite, you'll receive $100 off your order. If you print both your save the dates and thank you notes with your invitation suite, you'll receive $200 off your order.

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Invitations are generally sent out six to eight weeks before the wedding. Our standard turnaround is 4-5 weeks for wedding invitations (baby announcements and stationery take less time). We recommend ordering your invitations from us as soon as all your information (time, date, location, etc.) is firm and complete. In an ideal world, we would recommend that you place your order 3-6 months before your wedding date.

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We’ve been printing wedding invitations for years and we're happy to offer our wording expertise to our clients. Let us know if you're in need of wording help, or if you'd like us to e-mail you some examples. Also feel free to browse and borrow the wording from any of our sample invitations. If you’re looking for something more formal, we’ve particularly enjoyed the exhaustive invitation section in the book “Emily Post’s Wedding Etiquette: Cherished Traditions and Contemporary Ideas for a Joyous Celebration” (by Peggy Post). Numerous resources are online as well – you might want to check out The Knot’s wedding invitation wording page for some standard advice.

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More traditional invitations tend to use an inner and outer envelope. Generally, on the inner envelope, you’d write the name of the person or persons invited, such as “Ms. Keats and guest.” More modern invitations – or couples looking for something more streamlined – often forgo the inner envelope. Although in some regions of the country, an inner envelope is a “must,” in most cases it really depends on what you prefer. Our Bella envelopes, which we custom made, have beautiful inner and outer envelopes. Our more colorful envelope offerings are often available with a single invitation envelope only.

If we’re lining your envelope, we do recommend using an inner and outer envelope combination. If you only use an outer envelope, and that envelope is lined, guests will tend to tear that envelope open and miss the perfect burst of color that an envelope lining gives a set.

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MAILING INVITATIONS