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

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…

DIY and Romance incompatible you say?  Not with with new BELLA letterpress pocket wedding invitations hot off the artist’s fainting couch:

Bella Romantic DIY Wedding Invitations

The animals are so happy and the Pied Piper is playing to the glorious sun. Diana Marye (the esteemed illustrator) has outdone herself, as usual. This Chagall inspired illustration is named for his wife Bella, whom he loved madly. (Really romantic and beautiful love story.)

The Bella illustration is letterpress printed in hot purple on brightwhite cotton cardstock (InviteSite is home to 2 of the finest letterpress printers in the Southwest.)

This panel serves almost like a bookcover — since the invitation is structured as an A7 booklet with a pocket on the inside. The invitation is bound-in, using either waxed linen thread, or thin satin ribbon. Very romantic, very sweet, very sophisticated:

Full Bella illustration

Okay — so sweep me off my feet!

Bella DIY Wedding Invitation: Open View

This view shows how the pocket works:

Pocket for the RSVP set and enclosures

Orange just makes us happy around here. So, we looked at the beautiful vintage style illustration by Diana Marye, and just had to print it in orange:

Vintage DIY Wedding Invitations

If you don’t like the thin satin ribbon that binds the cover to the wide landscape invitation sheet, CALL US. We can substitute chocolate brown satin, or paper raffia. If you want to go with a really clean look, we can substitute waxed linen thread. This DIY wedding invitation kit comes with the booklet jacket scored, the binding holes diecut, and the really handsome pocket diecut in a half moon shape.

The entire wedding invitation is completely treefree — all cotton linter and rag. Really clean and modern with a romantic vintage sweetness.

Close-up of the deep letterpress printing. It’s actually quite difficult to hold such fine lines:

Vintage Wedding Invitation Detail: Letterpress

Well how do you do?  A totally fabulous vintage style wedding invitation, right off the drawing board of Miss Diana Mayre and straight to your romantic whimsical heart.

Poetica Vintage Wedding Invitation | Letterpress Original Art by Diana Mayre

This amazing illustration is printed on the front panel of the booklet style invitation. All Crane Lettra cotton paper:  inside invite sheet, portfolio, and baronial (pointed) flapped envelopes. Pristine whites and gorgeous purple. The drawing is so amazingly and dear. Vintage style yet super modern.

Detail of Poetica wedding invitation

How sweet is that?