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Wedding Color Palettes – Birch + Christmas


In honor of Christmas this week, we love a pretty Christmas color palette of vine, clover, taupe, cream and cardinal to accompany our Birch letterpress wedding invitations for a pretty, country chic wedding. (Photo credits: wedding invitations + Christmas cottage + winter flowers + sugar cookies.)

Colorful + Cool – Save the Dates for 2011 Weddings

If you’re planning a 2011 wedding, now is the perfect time to think about ordering your letterpress save the dates! Here are a few cool, colorful options we are loving right now, from top left: Guild, Barcelona, Plume, Nouvina, Mimosa, Pavilion, Champagne, Estrella and Soleil. Contact us today to get started on your save the dates!

Elegant Romance in Espresso + Dusty Pink

This pretty customization of our Connemara letterpress wedding invitation design features a lovely combination of espresso and dusty pink inks on our ivory paper, complete with rounded corners. We love the way the delicate pink flowers look next to the bold brown text – perfectly sophisticated and sweet for an elegant and romantic wedding.

Wedding Color Palettes – Amici + Winter Neutrals

For this color palette we were dreaming in shades of winter neutrals with wedding colors of charcoal, sand, taupe, powder blue and pale gray to accompany our Amici letterpress wedding invitations. (Photo credits: wedding invitations + balsa wood bouquet + macarons + winter decor.)

Real Wedding – A Vintage Chic New Zealand Celebration

Claire and Brad’s gorgeous New Zealand wedding is one of those celebrations that is just beyond dreamy. Inspired by lace, elegance, English tea parties and summer, Claire planned a stunning vintage chic wedding with whimsical touches in a sophisticated color palette of white, cream and ivory with hints of soft powder blue. They chose our Cartoccio letterpress wedding invitations, printed in xanadu ink on our ivory cotton paper, to tie in with their chic and elegant affair. Claire wore a 1920s inspired dress from Phillipa Lepley Couture and the bridesmaids wore vintage style dresses from Whistles. The guys donned slim line powder blue suits that felt incredibly fashionable and only slightly like Las Vegas (in a good way). Claire and Brad met while attending university and Brad’s father officiated at their ceremony. A sweet love story paired with a neutral color palette and pretty vintage touches make this wedding an affair to remember.


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Elegant Espresso + Ivory Calligraphy Love

While we love bold, modern designs, sometimes it’s the simplest of letterpress wedding invitations that are the most elegant. Take this version of our Modern Calligraphy design for example. It’s printed in espresso on our ivory paper with coordinating espresso edge painting and an espresso envelope liner for a look that is incredibly chic and timeless.

The Letterpress Open Studio is Here!

This fall Bella Figura, our parent company Boxcar Press and our sister company Smock got a lot larger and moved into some shiny new digs. Our expansion (17 letterpresses, 55 employees, 24,000 square feet) makes us one of the largest letterpress shops in the country. 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. Now we’ve cleaned up our dust and we’re inviting you to come check us out!Come for shop tours, printing demonstrations, free giveaways, holiday shopping with Smock, refreshments, live entertainment and more. Letterpress lovers of all ages are welcome – we’ll have lots of fun activities for kids, too! We look forward to seeing you on Saturday between 10 and 4 – see you soon!

Boutique Letterpress Wedding Announcements & Save the Dates

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.

We Held an Election Day Sale. People Voted!

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!

Wedding Color Palettes – Spring Weddings + Palais

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.)

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