Make Your Letterpress Invitations Standout

Do you want to have your wedding invitees waiting in anticipation for your wedding? If you do you it all starts with the wedding invitation. What makes your wedding invitations so special? Is it the way itï¾’s printed? The way paper looks? Is that the color of the invitation or the envelope liner? What can you do to make your invitation stand out so that your invitees are really going be excited about coming to your wedding? Here are a few tips to make your invitation memorable.

1. Use a thicker paper stock like a 600gsm 100% cotton paper to highlight your invitation.

2. If you are environmentally conscious, use a vegetable based ink and cotton or recycled papers.

3. Determine if your printer is using a green source of energy to print your invitation.

4. Use letterpress printing. This printing technique is favorable because it displays the impression of the plate on to the paper giving the invitation a tactile or relief look and feel. Your invitees will want to touch and feel the invitation when theyï¾’re looking at it and they will not forget it. Engraving and other forms of printing simply do not produced this type of affect.

5. Make your invitation a unique size. A square invitation, though it may cost more to mail, will definitely be unique. A larger or a pocketfold style invitation will also help your invitations standout.

6. Unique embellishments can also make your invitation memorable. Colorful ribbons and liners as well as unique seals and handwritten addresses can set your invitation apart from the crowd.

Remember, making your invitation unique does not have to make it expensive. Many of these ideas can be used or implemented by you and a substantially reduced cost. Letterpress printing today is more competitive than ever and pricing is very attractive. Cotton papers are readily available and donï¾’t necessarily make the invitation more expensive. Hopefully, these ideas can help you to make a beautiful invitation that your guests will always remember.

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