Archive for October, 2009

Custom Letterpress Save the Dates with Grommets

There is something really fun about working with couples to print letterpress save the dates for their upcoming weddings – they’re often newly engaged and completely excited as they delve into wedding planning. So, when we recently had the opportunity to print these awesome save the dates, we were beyond thrilled. In our Majorca design, printed in cream and garden inks, these save the dates actually feature two cards in our reply card size that are then fastened together with a grommet, a simple yet completely unique feature that we love!

Grommeted Letterpress Save the Date by Bella Figura

The first card features basic save the date information including the wedding date and location – the date is emphasized in large serif type for a look that is clean and modern.

Grommeted Letterpress Save the Date by Bella Figura

The second card features detailed lodging and travel information for guests traveling from out of town. Providing such details can prove immensely useful for guests as they prepare to join you for your celebration.

Grommeted Letterpress Save the Date by Bella Figura

This kind of truly customized letterpress save the date is our favorite to print – we love seeing couples take our designs and play with font and sizes and colors to totally reinvent something that is perfect for their unique event. For more inspiration, check out some of our favorite letterpress save the dates we’ve printed in recent months.

by Cynthia Converse on October 30th, 2009. Category: Design Customizations,Save the Dates | No comments

Cute Customized Letterpress Baby Announcements

Printing really adorable letterpress baby announcements sure is great fun for us! These customized letterpress announcements are among our favorites of those we’ve recently printed and it’s easy to see why – they are so completely cute!

Airplane Letterpress Baby Announcement

This particular letterpress baby announcement is perfect for welcoming a little boy. It’s our Airplane design printed in navy and taupe inks on our ivory cotton paper. It’s a touch masculine, but still perfectly playful and child-like.

Owl Letterpress Baby Announcement

Our Owl letterpress baby announcement is one of our most popular designs. This customized version is printed in bright daffodil paired with downy ink. Yellow and gray is such a popular color for letterpress wedding invitations, so it’s no surprise that new parents also love this combination for letterpress baby announcements!

Owl Letterpress Baby Announcement

Owl Letterpress Baby Announcement

Another customization of our Owl design, this letterpress baby announcement is printed in pumpkin and garden inks. While 1-color letterpress is always fun, we love how this 2-color letterpress adaptation makes the Owl design so special.

The great thing about letterpress is how easily we can personalize a design to perfectly suit all special occasions in your life. In addition to our letterpress wedding invitations and letterpress baby announcements, we’re also happy to print for bar and bat mitzvahs, birthday parties, anniversary parties – you name it! Any of our letterpress designs can be customized for the celebration of your choice.

{Check out more cute letterpress baby announcements.}

by Cynthia Converse on October 21st, 2009. Category: Baby Announcements,Design Customizations | 1 comment

Fabulous Letterpress Ceremony Programs

Recently we’ve had the pleasure of printing a whole bunch of really great letterpress ceremony programs. In different shapes and sizes and featuring a whole array of different designs, each one is personalized with the colors, fonts and designs perfect for each individual couple and their event.

Letterpress Wedding Program

Letterpress Wedding Program

These double-sided programs are in our Suyra design, printed in deep blue and butter yellow inks. They were a full F8 size, the same as our larger-sized invitations, to allow the couple to really maximize the amount of information they could include. In this case, the back of the program featured details on the members of their wedding party.

Letterpress Wedding Program

Letterpress Wedding Program

Decidedly modern in our Flourish design printed in persimmon, these 1-color double-sided ceremony programs are a true reflection of the event this couple was planning. They are fun and whimsical while still perfectly appropriate for their traditional church ceremony.

Letterpress Wedding Program

Letterpress Wedding Program

Perfect for a more formal event, these letterpress programs in our Plume design feature deep blue and antique gold inks and the undeniable flair of hand calligraphy accents. Like the Flourish letterpress programs above, these were double-sided letterpress on our tea length size. We love the elegance a lovely letterpress ceremony program can add to a wedding and look forward to printing many many more.

by Cynthia Converse on October 14th, 2009. Category: Design Customizations,Letterpress Programs | No comments

Dolce Letterpress Dinner Menus

Using our Dolce design and printed in powder blue and antique gold inks, these letterpress dinner menus are the definition of luxurious. Printed on our super thick 2-ply cotton paper, the end result is a gorgeous letterpress creation that any guest would be excited to see awaiting them at their seat. While we always love printing lovely letterpress wedding invitations, the opportunity to print really fabulous extras (letterpress menus, coasters, ceremony programs and so much more) is always a treat – these were no exception.

Dolce Letterpress Program

Dolce Letterpress Program

Dolce Letterpress Program

by Cynthia Converse on October 9th, 2009. Category: Design Customizations,Reception Pieces | No comments

More Letterpress Coasters We Love

We’re not kidding when we say we really really love printing letterpress coasters. They are both really fun and a bit unexpected and add a little touch of luxury to any event. These were printed in sophisticated black and pale gray inks with the couple’s monogram that they carried throughout their event. How chic!

Monogram Letterpress Coasters

Monogram Letterpress Coasters

Make sure to check out these other custom letterpress coasters that we absolutely adore!

by Cynthia Converse on October 6th, 2009. Category: Design Customizations,Reception Pieces | No comments

On Newsstands Today – Bella Figura Letterpress Inviations in Inside Weddings

Make sure to pick up the latest issue of Inside Weddings – on newsstands today – to check out our New Calligraphy letterpress wedding invitations!

Bella Figura in Inside Weddings Fall 2009

Bella Figura in Inside Weddings Fall 2009

New Calligraphy has become incredibly popular with couples looking to add a special flair to their wedding with memorable letterpress wedding invitations that are the perfect blend of traditional elegance and modern whimsy. We’ve featured beautiful New Calligraphy customizations on the blog before, because it’s just so fun to see how brides and grooms make the design their own. The original design features vibrant cardinal red ink with cardinal edge painting on our luxurious 2-ply cotton paper paired with a metallic silver envelope liner.

New Calligraphy Wedding Invitation

New Calligraphy Wedding Invitation

Thanks so much to Inside Weddings for featuring Bella Figura!

by Cynthia Converse on October 1st, 2009. Category: Press | No comments