We wanted to take a moment this afternoon to share a couple of recent Bella Figura mentions in the press. Canadian wedding magazine Weddingbells recently featured our Nigella and Lola letterpress wedding invitation designs in a pretty spread of stationery they called love letters. How sweet!

One of our lovely Bella Figura couples, Jennifer and Robert, had their wedding showcased in a recent issue of The Knot. We love the pretty navy and pink color palette and the gorgeous flowers. Jennifer and Robert used our Deveril design for their letterpress wedding invitations.

Thank you to our friends at Weddingbells and The Knot for recognizing Bella Figura!

Calligrapher Kelle McCarter of designsgirl, who recently designed two gorgeous new calligraphy letterpress wedding invitations for our 2010 collection, was featured on one of our favorite wedding blogs, Style Me Pretty, this week! Kelle’s beautiful calligraphy was a part of a gorgeous photoshoot that was a collaboration between a handful of incredibly talented wedding vendors for a recent From Inspiration to Reality feature on Style Me Pretty. For more of Kelle’s beautiful work, check out her Bescal and Sobelle calligraphy invitation designs for Bella Figura.

{Photos by James Christianson Photography for Style Me Pretty.}

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

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.

Thanks so much to Inside Weddings for featuring Bella Figura!

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….)

Southern Weddings magazine calls our letterpress signature cocktail recipe coasters a “must have for your big day and the happily ever after.” They go on to say, “These beautiful letterpressed coasters would surely be the talk of your cocktail hour with fun drink recipes included on each beautiful piece.”

The first issue of Southern Weddings just hit the news stands and, wow, is it a gorgeous magazine. We were so excited that our recipe letterpress coasters are featured as one of Southern Weddings fabulous finds (“must have’s for your big day and the happily ever after”). Southern Weddings writes, “These beautiful letterpressed coasters would surely be the talk of your cocktail hour with fun drink recipes included on each beautiful piece.” You can make these coasters double-sided by including the bride’s & groom’s names and the date on the reverse side. What a cool keepsake…

Here are a few other photographs of our favorite letterpress coasters. Have fun dreaming!

Brides calls our Empire letterpress save the dates “what’s hot now,” showing off “imagination and style sense.”

Brides magazine features our Trace program panels as a practical ceremony accessory. “This straightforward, tea-length style is for the bride who wants to relay essential information simply, with minimal fuss,” writes Brides.