InviteSite  Makes  Invitation Tickets & Menus for Duke & Duchess of Cambridge BAFTA Event

Inspires New Letterpress Wedding Invitation Line

We had to keep it a secret for months: The InviteSite team produced the invitation tickets and menus for theDuke and Duchess of Cambridge BAFTA Brits to Watch event in July. It was truly a BLAST! So, in light of that honor — we created a line of letterpress wedding invitations that use the same really lush and thick ecru cotton paper and rich antique gold Italian pearlescent carstock. We named the design after the isle in Wales where the Royal couple reside: Angelesey.

Monogram Letterpress Angelsey Wedding Invitation

This is the menu Scott designed and printed letterpress on 600 gms 100% cotton cardstock. A photo of The Duchess of Cambridge’s actual menu from the BAFTA Dinner:

Menu for the Duchess of Cambridge for BAFTA Gala - First Calligraphy Version (Scott Rubel Invitesite design, calligraphy by Bonnie Nelson

This is how the menu looked on the table:

Table Setting, BAFTA Brits to Watch - Menu designed by InviteSite team

Bees go Crazy over InviteSite’s Wildflower mix Wedding Invitations

~ Brides Keen on the Design and Value ~

Ok, so I’ve got tabloid fever with all the news out of England these days. So forgive the overblown title!  But truly, we are just lovin’ the new seed paper we’ve gotten in for Invitesite’s extremely popular plantable wedding invitations. Nothing I love more than seeing stacks of beautifully assembled wedding invitations. Yes, ma’am…

Plantable Wedding Invitations that Support the Bees.

Handmade cotton rag paper embedded with:

• Black-eyed Susan
• Sweet Alyssum
• Spurred Snapdragon
• Bird’s Eye
• Baby’s Breath

These wildflowers self-seed after blooming. The wild flower selection was carefully selected to help support bee colonies all over the country, many suffering from Hive Collapse Syndrome.

The seeds for these flowers are smaller that the Comso seeds we used in our papers last year.   A detail of the letterpress printed art on THE NEW SEEDLING  PAPER for the Seedling Wedding Invitation:

Detail Seedling Plantable Invitation : Letterpress Art

Display of Whimsey Grows Letterpress Printed Plantable Invites

Here are some images of the various flowers. If you click the photo, it will take to to the website with the specific botanical information.  These flowers do well in the northeast and midwest, though most are drought tolerant for southwest gardens.

Black Eyed Susan Wildflower

Black Eyed Susan is the State Flower for Maryland.

Sweet Alyssum Wild Flowers

Sweet Alyssum is native to Southern Europe, but has naturalized in America.  The plant is very hearty, loves the sun and is heat and drought tolerant.

Spurred Snapdragon Wild Flowers

Spurred Snapdragon are also naturalized on the northeast part of the US, but grow throughout America. We find them at our local farmers markets. One of my favorite flowers, my mother grew them in our garden.

Bird's Eye Wild Flowers

A flowering herb, Bird’s Eye is native to California.

Baby's Breath Wild Flowers

Traditionally associated to Weddings because the flower was so often used it bridal bouquets and flower arrangements. The wild flower is extremely hardy and sun loving.  Bees love this flower!

And lastly, Scott’s hand drawing looks so spectacular on a stack of Plum Seedling Wedding Invitations:

Stack of 8 Plum Seedling Invitations is as high as 50 standard Wedding Invitations. This stack grows Hundreds of Wild Flowers.

Custom Stationery for Weddings and Events

Unless you’ve visited  InviteSite’s showroom and extensive print shop, you wouldn’t know our history of custom design and letterpress printing. We still do a good deal of custom design work and elaborate stationery production for Los Angeles area clients  - many who have become friends over the years.

In the spirit of collaborative design, we recently launched 3MusePress.com – a site to showcase custom invitations for weddings and events.  These are more elaborate and collaborative projects and designs are priced on a per project basis. 3 Muse Press is still in development and we look forward to challenging projects to fuel and inspire us.

Invitesite is so well known for DIY, that we thought posting our custom work here would only confuse our visitors.

All comments as 3 Muse develops are eagerly welcomed!

Simple Wedding Invitations | Sweet Romance

Simply, when an invitation card is minimal, the paper must be rich and the type must be exquisite. Letterpress, engraving, or fine silkscreen: recommended.

To celebrate the simple card with lovely printing on very good paper, we launched a line of super affordable eco wedding cards this year, and the response has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic.

The line is so affordable, that most couples have had us design and print for them.  The paper is 100% cotton, thick, and made in the USA.  It is the same paper all the high end letterpress designers are using and we pair it with affordable, handsome envelopes, real pressed flowers, and lovely handmade paper bellybands.

These invitations come in standard but large envelopes — the cards measure almost 8 inches tall by 5 and a quarter inches wide.  Some designs are horizontal — with the pressed flower along the side:

Sunflower Pressed Flower Wedding Invitation

SUNFLOWER  - the design above, is priced at $1 an invitation, if you want to print it. (heads up, the paper is really thick, so only works in a printer that can handle thick cardstock)

Oooooo La La! More French inspired Vintage Wedding Invitations.

~Meet Cherié — our darling sweet DIY girl: Wedding Invitation for the Chic Bride~

Cherié Vintage DIY Wedding Invitation - French Sorbet Inspired!

Have we mentioned how much we LOVE french ribbon?  You don’t want to know about our hoarded collection of Vintage french ribbon — envy is not good for the complection! Seriously. Vintage ribbbons (french), buttons, rare old papers. What we hoard  – but only to inspire us

Our company is staffed with diehard romantics: which is why we love the book format for wedding invitations so much.  So, from our hearts to your hearts, the Storybook Wedding Invitations design:

Storybook Wedding Invitations: Vintage Sand Style

This booklet style is just perfect for romantic, vintage weddings. The cover is diecut, and so are the interior DIY imprintable invite sheets. RSVP card and envelope suite attaches to the interior back cover with vintage style kraft colored photocorners. Chic! Included is the printable label (you would print 4 on a sheet and cut. This size goes through a laser or inkjet perfectly) — and the photo corners for mounting. We do have a 1/2 inch ribbon for binding,  if you want a slightly more substantial ribbon. We chose the 1/8th inch, because it reminds us of books from our extensive collections of illustrated books from the 1920′s and earlier.

The storybook cover is made from Italian pearlescent cardstock: sophisticated taupe color with a really lovely surface that is really hard to photograph! This is a super close up – the texture is actually smooth, but the light is bouncing off the subtle pearlized surface:

Detail Close Up Photo of the Taupe Colored Storybook Invite Cover

The RSVP set as it fits neatly at the back cover of the booklet style:

The RSVP set attaches neatly at the back cover

Sweet on this Cupcake!! We’ve got some new vintage wedding invitations coming out, diecut stacked shapes held together with vintage style ribbon:

Amélie Vintage Wedding Invitations: Layers + Diecut

More colors and ribbons coming.  Amélie is all shiny copper and cream.  Meredith, our resident Francophile, chose the ribbon and loves this not-so-girlie yet very feminine shape. She named and put the Amelie Wedding Invitation together. (Merci, Mademoiselle!)

If we print, we can print in a matching copper colored ink. Both the metallic paper and ink are subtle and rich, not garish. Antique hues and French feel. These are budget priced and PERFECT for Vintage DIY weddings. Completely imprintable. How sweet and sassy is that!

Alexanders DIY Wedding Invitations can be customized with Champagne invitation cards, and rsvp set, and close with champagne satin ribbon:

Alexanders DIY Wedding Invitations with Champagne Card and Ribbon. Photo by Daryl Ching.

Which means we have to show off all our Green Wedding Invitations.  Deirdre Eco Wedding Invitation is green on all counts. It’s made from treefree paper, the lokta bush, which is a renewable source, from the high country of Nepal.  And, an Irish name.  (Being Irish, we’re a bit fond of Irish names.)  On Napali paper. How worldly!   The envelopes are made from 100% PCW paper — with  mango leaves and mulberry envelope liners. What makes the Deirdre design really neat — is it’s two panel booklet style with pockets for enclosures:

Pocket Wedding Invitation: Booklet Perfect for 2 Language Weddings

RSVP set and the mailing envelope have mango paper liners, and the invitation finishes with a real edelweiss flower:

Deirdre Booklet Wedding Invitations with real Edelweiss Flower

The stack of paper that we photographed for our banner, above,  shows what the paper looks like in its raw form. So beautiful…

Ooo – la – la!

Two new designs for spring, summer and fall, both with a French flair. Collette is an eco wedding invitation, handmade cotton paper and 100% PCW recycled paper:

Collette + Desiree Wedding Invitations with French Flair

Desiree is a perfect invitation for a classically elegant wedding. You can stylize the ribbon any way you like: the ribbon is double wired and amazingly flexible. We love French ribbons!