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.

InviteSite has 3 fetching plantable invitations for 2010.  Each is a booklet style, with a pocket enclosure, yet still takes standard postage. (As long as you tie the raffia in a tidy knot — without a bump.)  Three original letterpress printed illustrations in three colors:

Seedling Plantable Wedding Invitations : Wildly Popular for Green Weddings

Seedling Plantable Wedding Invitations have a letterpress printed cover, with original artwork by Scott Rubel. The design comes with planting instructions, printed with a matching design. We use luxurious Crane letter envelopes (100% cotton).

For your Purple Pleasure: The Plum Seedling Wedding Invitations:

Plum Seedling Plantable Wedding Invites: Letterpress Purple Flower

Again, Crane Lettra 100% cotton envelopes with baronial (pointed) flaps. Very textured presentation.

The third offering for Spring 2010, is Whimsey Grows — a really bohemian plantable wedding invitation printed letterpress in orange ink.

Whimsey Grows : Boho Plantable Wedding Invites with Cosmo Seeds

Let us know if there is a color or flavor we’re missing!

These designs are all 100% cotton recycled paper: the letterpress printed folders are 100% handmade paper. The interior sheets are 100% cotton rag, prints beautifully. Matching 100% cotton rag envelopes.

Sweet.

Love is in the air at Invitesite most of the year. But, we all get especially lovey dovey right before the holidays. Just can’t help it. So, to help celebrate the Season of Flirty, we’d do special flirty holiday cards: heavy cotton rag carstock, rounded edges, handfed letterpress. Ooooooo  baby !

Flirty Holiday Cards: Happy Couple Letterpress

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

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?