We create more than just pretty wedding invitations—each of our custom invitation designs offers a fully coordinating wedding suite, including wedding stationery and all the day of pieces that you’ll need for your celebration. New for 2012: custom postage stamps! So how do you know what suite pieces look like?

  • When you order samples, we’ll include a little flat printed sheet that shows off wedding suite pieces from the Rustic Jolene design.
  • If you’d like to actually hold letterpressed and foil stamped suite pieces in your hand, consider ordering a full wedding suite sample for $30 below—this includes all available suite pieces for our Traditional Script design: invitation, reply card, reply postcard, reception card, directions card, save the date, menu, program panel, program cover, flat thank you, folded thank you, flat place card, folded place card, coaster, lined outer envelope, reply card envelope, A-6 envelope. (Please note that unlike other sample costs, the $30 wedding suite isn’t refunded if you order from us).
  • The suite pieces of all our designs are also on our web site. Go to your favorite design’s web page and scroll down a little to see them.
  • You can also browse through designs by suite piece: for instance, see the galleries for our save the dates, or folded thank you notes, or menus, or programs, or flat place cards.

More information about the Bella Figura complete wedding suite pieces.

The wedding invitation: Typically mailed out anywhere from 6-8 weeks prior to the wedding, invitations ask your family and friends to attend your wedding ceremony and possibly the reception as well. Besides just weddings, all our invitation designs can also be used for birthdays, bar/bat mitzvahs, showers, holiday cards, kitchen teas, trivia contests—you name it. View some great examples of invitations on our blog. (Do you need help with your wedding invitation wording?

The reply card (a.k.a. rsvp card or response card): Unless you can read your guest’s minds, you’re probably going to need some way to know exactly who’s coming to your wedding—and that’s what reply cards are for. Besides just a head count, reply cards can also be used to get any other sort of info you might need from guests such as entree choices, dietary restrictions, where they’ll be staying, whether they’ll need shuttle service, what their guest’s name is, what song they’ll dance to—really anything you need to know. Get inspired by some reply cards on our blog, or check out our advice on wedding response card wording.

The reply postcard: Reply postcards are a fun, eco-friendly, and economical way to let your guests reply to your wedding. They’re slightly less formal than traditional reply cards, but they’re a very popular option and can help you keep the invites within your budget.

The reception card: Reception details can sometimes be included as the last line of the invitation itself, but it’s much more formal to go with a separate reception card for the celebration info. Using a separate reception card will allow you to include any extra details about the reception (e.g. Is your reception at a different location than your ceremony? Is your reception only for adults?) and it will also keep your invitation from looking too crowded. (Need ideas for your reception card wording?)

The directions card: Will you have a lot of out of town guests that may easily get lost? Is your wedding venue difficult to find? A direction card can provide details such as two or three different routes to your location, parking information, and arranged transportation. Custom maps are also available for an additional charge. (Read our ideas for direction card wording)

The save the date: Typically sent anywhere from 6-12 months before the wedding, save the dates are the perfect way to make sure that guests have advanced notice of your wedding date, and they can also be an excellent way to set the initial tone for your wedding celebration. Once upon a time save the dates were used primarily for destination weddings or weddings with a lot of out of town/country guests, but nowadays they’re popular for all weddings. (Read over our recommendations for save the date wording)

The wedding menu: Often designed to coordinate with invitations and other printed pieces, menus will include the appetizers, entrees, desserts and drinks, and possibly other details such as the date, a memorable quote, or the couple’s names. Coordinating menus add a beautiful decorative element to your guest’s place settings and also make great keepsakes to remember all the deliciousness! (Read more about how wedding menu wording)

The wedding program (panel): A program panel can include all the lovely details of your ceremony from your bridal party down to the readings by friends and family. You can personalize them further with your date, a monogram of your initials, or special message! This is an elegant way to wow your guests and set the tone for the rest of the event! Find some wedding program examples on our etiquette page.

The wedding program (cover): Wedding programs are a record and treasure of your big day and can help your guests understand the order of events of your ceremony. The cover will often include the date, names of the couple, location, and time of the event. Please note that we letterpress only the program cover, but insert pages are easily printed on your home computer or by digital printing companies. We offer a to make printing the interior pages of your wedding program easier. View our wedding program cover examples at our etiquette page.

The (flat panel) wedding thank you note: A flat thank you card is an elegant way to thank your loved ones for their generous gifts to you, and also works as sophisticated stationery for your future correspondence. You can include a monogram, you and your future spouse’s names, or elements of your invitation design. This piece can double as elegant letterpress stationery as well.

The (folded) wedding thank you card: Want to keep the traditional approach to thanking your family and friends? A folded thank you note is the perfect choice! You can personalize these thank you notes with you and your future spouse’s names, a monogram, or any meaningful words. This piece can double as letterpress stationery for you and your new spouse as well.

The flat place card or escort card: Flat escort cards (most formally placed in an envelope) indicate at which table a guest should sit. The envelope would have the guest’s name, and the escort card would show the table number. Flat place cards are on the table itself and let the guests know at which place they should sit. Usually these cards include a design motif that coordinates with the rest of the reception stationery. We’re not able to letterpress each guests name individually, but we can definitely recommend several excellent calligraphers who can pen the names of your guests once the place cards have been printed

The wedding coaster: An instant keepsake for your guests (and a great way to keep stains off your tables to boot!) coasters can be single or double sided, and can feature a monogram, your wedding date, a meaningful quote, a signature drink recipe, or just a design that compliments your wedding invitation suite. View some of our favorite wedding coasters on our blog.

The rehearsal dinner invitation: Rehearsal dinner invitations let specific guests on your list know that they are requested to attend the pre-wedding rehearsal dinner. To make sure the wedding invitation isn’t upstaged, rehearsal dinner invitations are often a slightly smaller size, and can either be sent along with the wedding invitations or separately in their own envelope.

The at home card: Are you moving to a new address following the wedding? Will you be changing your name? An at home card is the perfect way for you to keep your family and friends in the loop!

The postage stamp: To make your invitation suite totally complete, consider custom postage stamps, personalized with your invitation colors and even a monogram if you’d like. At Bella Figura, we create the stamp file for you, and then you upload that file to a postage stamp site like Zazzle.com. This is a great way to make sure that every aspect of your invitation set is tied together neatly!

The web site card: A web site card is a simple way to direct your guests to check out your awesome wedding website. It’s a super eco-friendly way to communicate accommodations, registry, or any events surrounding your day, and can even be a budget-friendly way to ask your guests to reply online.

The wedding favor card: Usually given out to each guest as a thank you for attending the wedding, favor cards will generally include a brief word of thanks and will tie-in with the design of the rest of the wedding stationery. Because we want to encourage large hearted giving, we’ll letterpress your favor cards free of charge if your favor is a donation to a charitable cause (view our promotions page for details).