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Poetic, playful, minimal, modern, architectural…really felt at home in this recent collaboration with Taylor&Porter and The Fall Bride, and incredibly grateful to all who were involved. Full list of team credits with links to their Instagram profiles is included below.
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Hand-painted acrylic brush strokes on a letterpress wedding invitation suite, menus and signage galore, an Oscar de la Renta wedding dress, a cocktail bar complete with oysters and custom signature ice cubes, endless florals, and oh so many shades of blue…this is Kelsi and John’s wildly romantic Oregon wedding - recently featured on Junebug Weddings.
Read MoreMinimal wedding invitations have become a popular trend over the last decade or two, predominantly for couples seeking a more modern take on their wedding styling and stationery. They are largely characterized by concise and simple wording often typeset in small font sizes, large expanses of white (or negative) space, little to no decorative elements, patterns, or illustrations, and monochromatic, neutral, pale, or muted color palettes. Yum. What’s not to love.
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We know the city elopement imagery well. The couple gets ready in a hipster design hotel in downtown New York, LA, London, or Paris…there are some intimate moments in front of city hall, a stylish walk to their favorite coffee shop, bakery, or pizza place…some laughter, some kisses, a few amused onlookers, great sunglasses, and inevitably, two sidewalk-served pretty coupes of champagne.
But now its time for something a little different. Moody and dramatic landscapes, verdant autumnal florals, all the warm and woody shades of terracotta, and just enough wind to blow you back into the pages of Wuthering Heights. There is something decidedly romantic and cinematic about this elopement in the Scottish Highlands, (in what was once the holiday home of Constance Spry), and yet all the details are strikingly modern, minimal, and right on trend.
A little sip of scotch in Ferm Living’s ripple glasses, Kamperett’s iconic wrap around Adelaide gown, Laure de Sagazan’s romantic angora gilet, Moss Floral’s effortlessly composed Ikebana-inspired bouquet, and our most minimal stationery collection, The Curator, offering all the white space, blind embossing, vellum layers, and soft nude tones to complement and balance out the richly verdant landscape and moody color palette. All this captured by one of our favorite wedding photographers, Taylor and Porter, on 35mm film.
Scroll down, fall in love, and discover this dramatic yet simple way to say I Do.
As a typography-focused wedding stationery designer, one of the first things I look at when we receive an enquiry are the words and letters. I scan through the names, dates, venues and addresses looking for something that might stand out - words or numbers I can immediately visualize and imagine looking great in a particular typeface, font size or layout in one of our collections. I get excited about names like Quinn & Braxton - a Q, R, X, and ampersand are a typographic feast! I like dates that are “tidy” - like 04.04.24, or ones with lots of curves in them, like 06.09.25. I like twos and threes and eights. Oh, eights! I love long and foreign names…and as far as I’m concerned, the more glyphs, the merrier. I love tightly packed letters and lines of text, so glyphs always present an interesting design challenge in getting everything to slot together nicely.
All of which is to say, this project - from the minute I laid eyes on the enquiry, was a dream. The wedding venue was in the SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS. The welcome dinner was in, come on, PARADISE VALLEY. And the groom was Swedish, so they politely asked if we could do a dual-language version of the invitation, in English and Swedish. Swedish is glyph city!
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Thrilled to share these images of Holly&Shaun’s 50s-style Chateau wedding recently featured in VOGUE Australia. Holly opted for our sophisticated and minimal collection, The Editor in an understated monochrome palette of ivory, black, warm grey and vellum. The square ceremony invitation was letterpress printed with the large text subtly blind debossed, and finer details in charcoal grey letterpress on 710gsm Pur Coton Absinthe. The details were digitally printed on translucent vellum, and the RSVP was foil stamped in gold on warm grey. Their return address was also foil stamped in gold on our signature heavyweight ribbed-texture envelopes. Save the Dates, also from The Editor collection, were printed in charcoal grey letterpress on warm grey and paired with an ivory envelope. All vendor credits listed at the end of the article.
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Chiaroscuro, minimal styling, and every shade of stone…pleased to share this beautiful recent collaboration in the inimitable Italian countryside, with the talented Frances Wynne of Allegory Events and photographer Jessica Withey. Model - Lisa May Jolley.
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