The Journal

Be inspired by wedding invitation design, letterpress, and other pretty paper goods.

What do you mean when you talk about a printing “plate?”

This is part twenty-five of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! In the early days of professional printing, typesetters accumulated huge collections of tiny wood- or metal-carved letters. They would gather all the letters and punctuation required for a sentence or […]

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What does a foil-pressed invitation look like?

This is part twenty-four of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Ever see a dark card, maybe black or navy blue, with a beautiful, almost-glowing, gold design on it? I can say with almost 100% certainty that it was created using […]

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White-Ink Printing: There’s more to it than you know!

This is part twenty-three of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! White-ink printing is becoming increasingly popular due, in some part to trends, but also because there are more ways than ever before to achieve this beautiful effect. White-ink printing was […]

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What is “die-cutting?” Sounds violent. *bites nails nervously*

This is part twenty-two of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! So imagine you’re getting married and you have a passion for something specific, like traveling for example. Since everyone who knows you knows you love traveling, your stationery designer says, […]

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Deckled edges and hand-made papers

This is part twenty-one of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Centuries ago, paper was made by beating scraps of linen or wood fibers to a thick pulp that was mixed with water and spreading it out on a sieve-like framed […]

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An Ode to Duplexing

This is part twenty of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Think of a duplex home; two separate homes sharing a central, structural wall. Duplexing stationery is basically the same! The two “homes” are two pieces of paper or cardstock and […]

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All About Paper Finishes

This is part nineteen of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! When you start looking at types of paper to use for your wedding stationery it’s very easy to fall down a rabbit hole and  find yourself completely overwhelmed by the […]

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Paper weights (and no, we don’t mean that lumpy sculpture you made for your mom in 1st grade)

This is part eighteen of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! It seems simple enough to say that lightweight paper is thin and heavy-weight paper is thick, but there is actually a lot of work that goes into determining the precise […]

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Variable printing? Sounds like algebra….(its not!)

This is part sixteen of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! These gorgeous dark green envelopes not only had fun constellations printed on the front but, using variable printing, we were able get all the addresses printed in coordinating typefaces to […]

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