THE CURATOR

noun, a keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection, a person who selects and organizes items in an exhibition, typically using professional or expert knowledge.
from Old French, curateur, and Latin, curare - to arrange/see/attend to, heal/cure, provide for, take care of.

Combining Western and Eastern design influences, traditional letterpress printing, old world typography, and subtle geometric accents in gold foil, The Curator is exquisite and meticulous, at once stately and palpably serene. Each element is treated with equal emphasis, creating an intricate interplay of text blocks, white space, and framing marks upon a landscape of muted tones and textures. Long vertical inserts of varying heights stack tidily upon the center of the main ceremony invitation, ensuring that the couples’ names and whole palette of papers are both visible before the suite is taken apart. Much like a carefully curated exhibition or ceremony, every detail is considered and has its rightful place.

Loosely inspired by Kintsugi (literally, gold seams) - the traditional Japanese method of repairing broken or chipped parts of cherished vessels with seams of vivid gold, this collection uses gold foil-stamped details to frame, highlight, or break up sections of otherwise “ordinary” text. It is incredibly rare in letterpress printing, to introduce a whole separate print process for something as simple or seemingly secondary as a single line or curve…and this is precisely why we did it. More than anything, The Curator is about exacting intentionality, about putting in all the thought and all the work it takes to make something ultimately look, seamless, and effortless.

Collection aesthetic | Minimal and understated
Defining design elements | Vertical names and headings, white space, subtle linear and curved accents in gold foil

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INVITATIONS

Format | Ceremony Invitation 155x215mm (approx. 6x8.5in), various formats for additional inserts
Paper | Ivory, Cool Grey, or Black 710gsm (other colors available but may require a longer lead time).
Print | Letterpress and foil-stamped accents
Envelope | Luxurious heavyweight envelopes with twill (ribbed) texture, available in five colors - ivory, nude, light grey, charcoal grey, and black
Design & Print Customization | Option to change paper and ink colors, add vellum overlays with quotes, lyrics, illustrations, or patterns.
Inserts available | Rehearsal Dinner and Brunch invitations, RSVP cards and envelopes, Weekend Details, Itineraries, Website URL inserts for online RSVPs.

A bird's eye view of a wedding invitation, angled to one side. The invitation is on ivory colored paper and has small, letterpress text with the couple’s names written vertically on either side.
Close up angled shot of a letterpress rehearsal dinner invitation on muted blue slate paper with the letters REHEARSAL stacked in five lines and a slim gold foil stamped line.

There are darknesses in life

and there are lights;

you are one of the lights,

the light of all lights.

Bram Stoker

SAVE THE DATES

Format | 105x210mm (approx. 4x8.5in)
Paper | Ivory, Cool Grey, or Black 710gsm (other colors available but may require a longer lead time).
Print | Letterpress, blind embossing, foil stamping
Envelope | Luxurious heavyweight envelopes with twill (ribbed) texture, available in five colors - ivory, nude, light grey, charcoal grey, and black
Design & Print Customization | Option to change paper and ink colors.

A stack of wedding save the dates, with the top one lying at an angle on the others. They are in landscape orientation, with a large, blind embossed date in the centre. Shadow from a window is cast across the top.

Living simply makes

loving simple.

bell hooks

DAY OF STATIONERY

Elements | Reception and rehearsal dinner menus, bar and cocktail menus, ceremony programs or weekend itineraries, seating charts and way-finding signage, welcome letters, thank you cards.
Format | Wide variety of formats, papers, and print techniques available.

Numerous letterpress wedding menus covering the surface on which they’re lying, in a random order. Glimpses of a blind embossed date are showing on each card, but none of them are totally visible.

Our day of stationery pieces tend to be a little more customized as we work closely with you and your planners, designers and stylists to tailor layouts and formats to your event concept and venue styling. Ceremony programs can range from a short sweet post-card to a hand-stitched booklet, welcome letters can sometimes be handwritten, and seating charts can be acrylic decals applied to a large vintage mirror, printed on billowy linen fabric, applied to a rack of wine bottles or whatever else you have in mind. We usually provide rough estimates for these elements and then talk through your ideas in more detail closer to the wedding date. We have to add that you don’t necessarily have to stick to the same collection all the way through to your wedding day…so feel free to explore our other collections and bring some new tricks to the party.

See more Day of Stationery here >

THE CURATOR WEBSITE

In the year of our tenth anniversary, we are proud to finally introduce custom wedding websites and bring Love on Paper to internet land. Available in the style of each of our stationery collections, our websites feature sophisticated typographic layouts in our signature styles to match your save the dates, invitation suites and day-of paper goods. Our comprehensive, sophisticated and personalized design service aims to keep things as easy and breezy as possible for you, whilst ensuring that your correspondence with your guests is aesthetically consistent and highly intentional throughout your planning process.

Ideally, you’ll have had or arranged for a professional engagement shoot to provide us with high resolution image content to use on the site, but if you don’t have any or prefer not to use photographs, we have developed beautiful typographic layouts where the letterforms and colors can do the talking. We also have a library of beautiful stock imagery and AI-created artwork, including photographs, graphics, and patterns we can creatively use as design elements in lieu of more traditional smiley, hand-holding portraits. As with our printed stationery design process, our service includes guidance on wording and creative writing to ensure your written content is clear and concise, visually striking, and sets the right tone for your celebration, whether you’re keeping things light and modern, or more reserved and traditional.

Available pages or sections include:
Home | Invitation Details | Weekend Itinerary | Travel & Accommodation Details | Online RSVP Form | Image Gallery | Gift Registry
Optional password protection and email address if required.

The service & design fee includes:
Domain registration & hosting (one year) | Template & color palette customization | Guidance on wording & creative writing | Content updates leading up to the celebration | RSVP Responses in a Google Spreadsheet

When enquiring, please provide as much detail as possible on the content sections and functionality you’ll need, as well as what you have in terms of image content (photographs of you and/or the venue) that you’d like to use.

Our Style Notes

The venue A modern art gallery | The season Spring and summer | The palette Barely there pastels with darker, muted accents.
Designers The Row, Toteme | Looks Long, minimal silhouettes, slits, and a stately cape or coat
Must-have accessory The Axel Minaudière from Khaite
Cute ceremony idea In traditional Shinto weddings, the couples engage in a ritual called San San Ku Do of sharing Sake from three different-sized cups. The smallest one symbolizes the past, the medium one, the present, and the large one, the future. Look it up, it’s steeped in beautiful symbolism.
The honeymoon Japan in spring, obvs.

The quote:
Love isn't something natural.
Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith…
It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”

― Erich Fromm

The love letter:
Tonight I love you in a way that you have not known in me: I am neither worn down by travels nor wrapped up in the desire for your presence. I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself. This happens much more often than I admit to you, but seldom when I’m writing to you. Try to understand me: I love you while paying attention to external things. At Toulouse I simply loved you. Tonight I love you on a spring evening. I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me and the things around me alter my love…. I love you with all my heart and soul..”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, to Simone de Beauvoir

Image Credits: White look by The Row | Terrazzo side tables by Luizzo | Restaurant setting from Pinterest, unknown | Dress by Tokihana | Bench photograph from Therese Sennerholt | Evidens de Beauté Spa in Paris | Cake from Pinterest, unknown | Table Styling by Imbue | All stationery images - The Letterist

ADDITIONAL LINKS & inspiration

On The Journal

See a natural, yet sophisticated editorial shoot featuring pieces from The Curator amidst the stunning Catskills.
See an elopement in the moody Scottish highlands that was featured in Magnolia Rouge.

To find out more about minimal invitations, read our minimal wedding invitations blog.

On Pinterest

See our pins for The Curator collection including fashion, florals, desserts, and more.

On Instagram

Watch a reel of The Curator samples up, close and personal.
See a moodboard of some of the visual inspiration that we collected whilst designing this collection.

Learn more about the process | See what clients have said about working with us | Back to All Collections

Please note that some of these images are digital renders and some are photographs of print samples - they do not always reflect the full range of paper textures, colors and print techniques available. We will share more options with you during the customization process and can mail you selected print samples upon request.