Weddings | Renee & Peter
What do you get when a really awesome Australian couple with Scottish roots decides to get married? Really awesome wedding invitations, with a nod to their Scottish heritage. Renee and Peter contacted me earlier this spring about creating a set of wedding invitations for their upcoming wedding in November and I had such a wonderful time working with them, I couldn’t help but show their invites off to you!
Renee and Peter’s suite features so many fun elements including lined envelopes, blind embossing, letterpress printing, and a really fun and unique laser-cut piece!
Renee and Peter’s invitation is a standard A7 size that features a blind embossed woodgrain pattern all over the background and letterpress typography printed in black ink. The design of the invite is casual and fun and I was super-excited when they asked if the graphic at the bottom could be a set of bagpipes! (It was honestly really exciting, no one has ever asked me to draw bagpipes before).
Like many modern couples, Renee and Peter planned to have their guests RSVP online, so we needed some sort of way to indicate where to do that. In order to do that, we took of running with the bagpipe motif and created a custom, laser-cut and engraved set of double-sided website cards out of maple wood veneer that featured their website address on one side and the password on the opposite. The wooden bagpipe cards were then tied around each invitation with jute twine.
Aren’t they just too cool!?! This combined with the green and navy blue tartan envelope liner you see in the top photo, I think, were a really nice nod to their Scottish roots! I’m imagining that there will be some awesome photos of gentlemen in kilts, possibly playing bagpipes, to come from this wedding in just a few short months!
Renee & Peter, thanks so much again for working with us! You two are awesome!!
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I’m pretty excited to announce a very fun little project that I’ve been working on with a good friend, and owner of Funhouse Productions, in Eugene, Drew Parrish! Together we created the Post Cake! Post Cake is a mailable, 3-dimensional postcard, shaped like a real piece of chocolate cake. The frosting even smells like chocolate! All you have to do is add stamps, and the post office will take care of the rest (no box or extraneous packaging material is required for mailing). Each cake has a letterpress printed postcard on the back with space for your own personal message.
In the spirit of Throwback-Thursday, I’d like to show you one of my favorite wedding invitation suites from a couple of years ago that I just hadn’t gotten around to putting up on the blog, until now! This suite was designed by New York City designer, Jihee Wu, for Melbourne, Australia couple, Alicia and Tim! I love how modern and timeless this suite is and how it utilizes many of the lovely things that letterpress printing has to offer, in such an elegant and classic way!
Alicia & Tim’s invitation suite featured a 5.5″ square invitation, letterpress printed in a charcoal grey ink on 100% cotton Crane Lettra Pearl White Paper. The suite also featured matching grey envelopes that were letterpress printed with black ink. All of Alicia and Tim’s pieces incorporated a blind embossed monogram, which you can see at the top of the invite in the above photos.
Hey, hey, Eugene! If you haven’t done so already, you really ought to go and check out Raven Moon Emporium in the Whiteaker Neighborhood! Twin Ravens Press is proud that they are our newest, local retailer. At Raven Moon you can find Twin Ravens Press cards, as well as our sister company, Firehouse Lasercutting’s, custom laser-engraved liquor flasks!
