THE DREAMER
noun, a person who dreams habitually, or escapes to a world of fantasy or illusion; an escapist; a prophet; visionary
from Old English dreamere meaning "musician.”
The Dreamer is our take on luxury, or quiet luxury, to be more precise. Inspired by more traditionally luxurious invitations that were often full of calligraphy, patterns, textural elements, and gold, this collection aims to reinvent the same design vocabulary in a subtler and more modern way. Instead of calligraphy, we have used a modern sans-serif typeface that is loosely inspired by the contrasting line weights of calligraphic strokes. In the place of elaborate illustrated patterns, we’ve used only letterforms as graphic elements, relying on the interplay of embossing and debossing to create opulence and tactility. And we’ve retained a lot of gold…but its often typeset in an uppercase sans-serif font, creating an interesting dialogue between old and new.
This is an exercise in muting excess, but also in reimagining luxurious wedding stationery in a way that is less obviously girly or feminine. And because the letters truly make up the design, The Dreamer is perhaps also the most unique of our collections. With your names, date, location and details defining the layout and flow of each piece in the suite, you can be certain it will never look like anyone else’s.
Collection aesthetic | Elevated and ethereal
Defining design elements | Large and textural debossed and embossed type, with foil stamping accents, sometimes printed over the large type
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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 | Blind debossing, embossing and 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 or foil colors.
Inserts available | Rehearsal Dinner and Brunch invitations, RSVP cards and envelopes, Weekend Details, Itineraries, Website URL inserts for online RSVPs.
We are asleep until
we fall in love.
Leo Tolstoy
SAVE THE DATES
Format | 175x175mm (approx. 7x7in)
Paper | Ivory, Cool Grey, or Black 710gsm
Print | Blind embossing or debossing, letterpress ink or 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 or foil colors.
Why should a sequence of words
be anything but a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein
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.
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.
THE DREAMER 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 Outdoors, with beautiful scenery, or indoors with the outdoors brought in through whimsical botanicals
The season Spring and early or late summer | The palette Pale dreamy neutrals and a whole lot of green
Designers Zimmerman, Mira Zwillinger, Oscar de la Renta | Looks Embroidered abstract florals and sheer layers, boho but luxe
Must-have accessory Flowers in your hair or veil
Cute ceremony idea Mini boutonnieres and corsages for guests on arrival
The honeymoon Amidst breathtaking nature in Ireland
The quote:
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
— Anaïs Nin
The love letter:
I don’t suppose I really know you very well but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder.
— Zelda, to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image Credits: Look 01 by Zimmerman | Floral Installation by Mary Lennox | Embroidered Dress - Valentino S/S 2020 | Floral Ice Cubes from Pinterest, unknown | Table styling from BB La Tavola Linen | Bouquet by Fleur My Darling | Veil with flowers - from Pinterest, unknown | All Stationery by The Letterist
ADDITIONAL LINKS & inspiration
In the Press
See Mollie & Evan’s hand-painted invitations from The Dreamer featured in Over the Moon.
On the Journal
For more about luxury invitations, read our luxury wedding invitations blog.
On Pinterest
See our pins for The Dreamer collection including fashion, florals, desserts, and more.
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.