We are excited to announce the introduction of two new Trendsetter sample packs! Holly of decor8 and the ladies of Southern Weddings Magazine have each curated a Bella Figura sample pack of their favorite letterpress wedding invitation designs, joining the ranks of other Bella Figura trendsetters including Style Me Pretty, Oh Joy, Snippet & Ink, and Brooklyn Bride. Holly’s favorites include Estrella, Linnea, Urbanity, Maja and Dewdrop while the gals of Southern Weddings Magazine include Estrella, Nonpareil, Nigella, Dewdrop and New Calligraphy among their favorites.

New Calligraphy Letterpress Invitation

Nigella Letterpress Reply Card

Maja Letterpress Invitation

As always, when you purchase a Trendsetter sample pack ($20, including shipping), 100% of the cost goes to environmental causes near and dear to our hearts as selected by the Trendsetters. Be sure to check them out!

Check out this great post on Weddingbee by Cyd, a Bella bride who visited our upstate New York letterpress shop recently to plan for her own wedding invitations. Looking for more glimpses of what goes on in a real letterpress print shop? Check out our cool letterpress music video featuring all that is good and beautiful about our presses, and also this other great video of our print shop, made by professional wedding videographer Luke Walker. And yes, we love visitors.

Bella Figura has just become part of Style Me Pretty’s Little Black Book. Hooray! In SMP’s words, “The Little Black Book shows off the most innovative and chic wedding professionals on the planet” and we couldn’t agree more. It’s an excellent and very curated list of the best wedding vendors nationwide and internationally. Michelle, the gatekeeper for the Little Black Book, mentioned she receives over 300 emails a day, many from vendors requesting a spot in the LBB, so we’re just thrilled to be included in this important wedding resource.

Below is a photo montage we made for SMP, featuring some of our favorite letterpress things of late. (pictured, from top left going clockwise: Amici letterpress wedding invitation; our letterpress ink books included with sample orders; a custom international letterpress invitation; Festoon; the Estrella coaster; Deveril; Avant edge painting; the Fieno letterpress reply card; and in the center, us hard at work letterpress printing)

Check out this very cool video about….our letterpress print shop! The video comes from Luke Walker Photography, one of the best wedding photographers (and videographers it turns out too!) out there. We met Luke back in 2006, when he lived nearby in the Finger Lakes and (gorgeously and beautifully) photographed the weddings for two of our Bella couples. (You can see Luke’s photos from Megan & Matt’s Aurora, NY wedding here) Luke visited our print shop a little while ago with his video equipment in tow, and it was a true pleasure getting to chat with him over the afternoon. Thanks for making the trip out to Syracuse, Luke, to see Bella Figura! (Want to see more letterpress printing videos right now? Check this one out too….)

Watch our letterpress wedding invitation Duet be printed on Bella Figura’s cool antique Heidelberg Windmill letterpresses in this just-released video — filmed, edited, and produced by us. Of course, the usual printing process of wedding invitations takes all day — or takes days, depending on the size of an invitation suite. But thanks to some fancy editing, this movie runs just over three minutes. Next up: our 2 hour letterpress feature-length film? Our artisan 10 hour mini-series? We’ll keep you posted.