These incredible letterpress wedding invitations feature a vibrant color palette inspired by Italian pottery. The wedding announcements were printed in Mediterranean and daffodil inks on our luxurious 2-ply paper, and were embellished with surf edge painting. We also printed a petite letterpress save the date card in surf ink along with a letterpress thank you card in daffodil to match.
Last month we launched our second annual Election Day Sale where we asked Bella Figura clients to get out and vote! Why? Because we like voting. And we think everyone should do it more often. (It’s amazing what happens when we all get involved. We really can change the world.) Of course, we sweetened the deal a bit. Clients who sent us a photo showing us they went out and voted received 25 free letterpress invitation sets. This year we were blown away by the response! Brides, grooms, moms, dads, and even pets got in on the voting action! Herewith, a handful of the awesome photos we received and just a sampling of the inspirational people we’re lucky enough to get to work with here at Bella Figura – you all rock!
Using pretty spring weddings and our Palais letterpress wedding invitations as inspiration, we love this sweet palette of wedding colors in sea mist, deep blue, dusty pink, light peach and celadon. (Photo credits: wedding bouquet + bridesmaid dresses.)
We thought we’d share a fun round up of some of the awesome letterpress directions and accommodations cards we’ve printed in recent months. Some of them include maps and other details and some of them simply refer guests to a website with lots of extra information to make their travel easier. Accommodations cards are especially helpful if you’ve negotiated group rates at local hotels so guests know where to book their room. Check out these ideas for tons of great letterpress inspiration!
{Letterpress directions card in Flourish.}
{Tara accommodations + directions website card.}
{Tennyson letterpress directions card.}
{Directions card in Tuileries.}
As we prepare for the holidays, we wanted to let you know about our sister company Smock’s newest holiday collection. From letterpress holiday cards to pretty and colorful offset holiday notes, from festive holiday gift wrap to letterpress photo cards and letterpress gift tags, Smock has the perfect holiday paper goods for your season’s greetings in new colors and new styles for the 2010 holiday season. Smock holiday is available now so start your holiday shopping today!
If you remember the lovely calligraphy letterpress invitations we created with Debi Zeinert for Joanna and Christopher’s wedding, you’ll love seeing the rest of their gorgeous Napa Valley wedding. You can now find all of their wedding details on one of our favorite wedding blogs, Style Me Pretty!
Another recent Ashwell favorite, we love these cute letterpress coasters and favor tags. They were printed in blush and black inks for a chic New York City wedding. Looking for the perfect letterpress accessories to tie your wedding details together? Coasters, favor tags, programs, and letterpress menus are the perfect finishing touch for your celebration.
We printed these cute letterpress baby announcements earlier this year to celebrate the birth of little Isaac. They feature our Weber design printed in pale gray and cloud 9 inks and were designed to accommodate a wallet-sized photo. We can’t think of anything quite as special as a letterpress baby announcement to welcome a new addition to the family and we find these one particularly adorable.
If you follow us on twitter, you may already know that for the past few months we have been packing up, building new walls, moving presses, expanding our print shop and moving our operations from one end of an old warehouse in downtown Syracuse, New York to the other. We are newly settled in our new space and working on cleaning up our dust (and, trust us, there has been a lot of dust), but we wanted to let you know that we’re going to be hosting an open studio (aka a really fun party) next month and you’re invited! We do hope you’ll join us – friends, clients, general public, and the curious at heart are all welcome. There will be many more details to come so stay tuned!
Inspired by chic black tie weddings with a touch of feminine glamor, wedding colors of fuchsia, cardinal, antique gold, pewter and black showcasing our ever popular Deveril letterpress wedding invitations. (Photo credits: wedding invitations + centerpieces + wedding shoes.)
What feels like many moons ago, I shared my own Keswick letterpress wedding invitations here on the blog and at long last it’s time to share a few photos from our summer wedding last year. We celebrated our wedding with a two-day celebration in the beautiful Thousand Islands region of upstate New York, from which I hail. We were married in a private ceremony with just the closest of family and friends and then toasted our newlywed status with a cocktail party. We had planned for a beautiful outdoor ceremony at the Sackets Harbor Battlefield in a tree grove overlooking Lake Ontario. The weather had other plans. Rather than dodge rain drops, we moved our ceremony indoors last minute and were married at the private catering facility at the Madison Barracks where our cocktail party was to be held. It was nothing I had planned, yet, it was everything I could have ever wanted.
I wore a gorgeous lace Casablanca dress that I still love, champagne gold and pewter shoes from J.Crew, a Twigs & Honey flower in my hair, and a birdcage veil from Something Bold. My daddy walked me down the makeshift aisle and we both cried the whole time.
Though I am flower-obsessed and wanted a wedding that felt timeless, elegant and stylish, I had little to no interest in the bouquet tradition. I wanted simple, pretty flowers that didn’t break the bank. The answer was a small bouquet of my favorite flowers, white roses, for myself and pretty baby’s breath bouquets for my bridesmaids. We ordered the flowers wholesale and made them together as a group the night before.
Following the ceremony, we asked all of our family to join us for a group photo. Getting forty people to all look at the camera at once and smile was more work than you might imagine and it’s not really our style anyway so in the end we just asked people to hang out while our awesome photographer, James Bass, grabbed some shots. I love this one. It’s like we have this huge wall of love and laughter and joy behind us, which is a pretty great metaphor for the love we experience every day from our oversized collection of family, friends and loved ones.
This beautiful customization of our Tuileries design features Arabic script along with black and azalea inks on our luxury 2-ply paper for letterpress wedding invitations that are full of style. The couple chose a matching black envelope liner to complement the invitations for an ultra-chic look that we just love.
