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Sarah and Malcolm Wedding Invitations
Production Method
Letterpress
Design
Sarah Meskin
Malcolm Jones
Printing
Sarah Meskin and Malcolm Jones
Talk about taking DIY printing to a new level! Having purchased mini letterpress equipment, and armed with acrylic paints and other materials, this duo in love worked earnestly for five weeks to create 35 wedding invitations.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
–
Page Count
3
Paper Stock
Holyoke Fine Papers / 140C / Bone
Number of Colors
2
CMYK
Acrylic paint
Varnishes
Edge tipping (by hand)
Binding
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Typography
Aphrodite Slim Pro
Museo Slab
Project Description
We're both designers and when we got engaged I knew we'd be going all out with the printed elements for our wedding. The tricky part was blending both of our design sensibilities. I priced out a few letterpress shops but with such a small number of invitations having to go out, and wanting to hand paint each one, it made more sense to print them ourselves. We started by designing the invitations and having plates made by Boxcar Press, then painted each invitation and RSVP card with acrylic washes. We purchased a Lifestyle Crafts press with their letterpress kit to do the printing and it was very successful. We had 3 plates for the invitation to run through the press, and one for the RSVP card. We made inserts inviting people to a post-wedding brunch with our inkjet printer, and typeset each envelope and printed them through the inkjet as well. We packaged the invitations with a hand-punched band made with a Martha Stewart punch.Production Lesson(s)
We were lucky to both have prior printing experience so the process went pretty smoothly. We did upgrade the brayer the press came with, and we bought a larger inking plate as well. The biggest tip we have are to make sure the ink is the right consistency. One of our tubes was too thin and was difficult to work with at first. Also, clean your plates and brayer every 8-10 prints.
Post Author
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
August 6, 2013
Filed Under
Letterpress
Wedding materials
Tagged with
CMYK
digital
DIY
edge tipping
holyoke
letterpress
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PMS
wedding invitation
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