THE POET
noun, a person who writes poems, or a person possessing special powers of imagination or expression.
from Old French poete, via Latin from Greek poētēs, variant of poiētēs ‘maker, poet’, from poiein ‘create’.
If anyone knows how to feel, express, or celebrate Romance (with a capital R)…it is poets. Wording, punctuation, phrasing, rhythm, even cases…not one detail in this collection is taken lightly. Taking its inspiration primarily from the niche field of language poetry - where even the visual layout of lines and stanzas was intentional and employed to convey meaning - traditional wedding invitation wording is here reinvented and scattered across the page. Left, right, and centered alignments all come to play, creating a lyrical flow of dates, times, locations and details in a way that is both logical and beautiful. This is truly the age-old, pun intented, marriage of form and function.
Beyond the layout, The Poet also has a way with words. For her, your presence is always “joyfully requested,” the ceremony is not “followed by a reception,” but by “dinner and dancing beneath the stars,” and the bar menu is not titled drinks or cocktails or wines or beers, but lofty, beautiful, tastier even…Libations. Bold declarations of love - “TE AMO” (in a Romance language of course), are spread across milky shades of vellum…and wherever there is room for one, a line from a poem may appear.
Designed and launched in the final weeks of 2020, The Poet is almost palpably informed by the events of this year, and a quiet reflection on the profound lessons it brought with it. It is about simplicity, silence, space, surrender…about learning to find beauty in the unexpected, and hope…beyond all rhyme and reason. This collection is all about going back to basics and celebrating the only things we really do have - love, language, connection…each other. More than anything, The Poet is designed for a love that knows that space is all it truly needs to breathe, and to blossom.
Collection aesthetic | Romantic and composed
Defining design elements | Timeless old world typography, traditional ink letterpress printing, lots of white space, vellum overlays
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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, with optional foil-stamped accents, and screen-printed vellum overlays
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.
We were together.
I forget the rest.
Walt Whitman
save the dates
Format | 130x180mm (approx. 5x7in)
Paper | Ivory, Cool Grey, or Black 710gsm (other colors available but may require a longer lead time).
Print | Letterpress, with optional foil-stamped accents, and screen-printed vellum overlays
Envelopes | 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.
The very essence
of romance is
uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde
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 POET 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 Their parents’ perfectly tasteful garden | The season Spring | The palette Blush, nudes, muted greens, pops of yellow
Designers Cortana, Laure de Sagazan, Caroline Takvorian | Looks Feminine separates, sheer layers, at least one bow
Must-have accessory The Poem Veil from L’eto Bridal
Cute ceremony idea Reading poems instead of vows, and dried rose petal confetti in transparent vellum envelopes on each seat
The honeymoon Estelle Manor, Oxfordshire
The quote:
Always be a poet, even in prose.
— Charles Baudelaire
The love letter:
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out.
Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
— Franz Kafka, to Milena
Image Credits: Bouquet by Studio Imbue | Separates by Cortana Bridal | Cake by Hey There, Cupcake | Poem veil by L’eto | Table styling by Curved and Co. | Roses in pond by Blubelle Creative | All stationery by The Letterist
ADDITIONAL LINKS & inspiration
On Pinterest
See our pins for The Poet collection including fashion, florals, desserts, and more.
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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.