Lantinga/Pastoor Wedding Invitations

January 08, 2022

In 2021, we started doing wedding invitations! Our first client was a lovely family friend and her fiancé. Their wedding was a sweet outdoor affair at her family's farm, and our task was to make invitations to match.

They requested that we incorporate ferns, and their colors they liked were a sage green and a gray. So, we set off to start designing and finding materials.

Papillon Press letterpress wedding invitation draft Madeleine's draft page of layout and "logo" design. 2021.

Madeleine started with some layout sketches, and then went on to designing the logo to feature at the top of each invitation.

Papillon Press couple logo design for letterpress wedding invitations A page with some started logo designs for the invitations. 2021.

After the design was finished, it was time to choose envelopes and exact colors. We settled on these lovely "matcha" colored envelopes, in 2 sizes, one for the invitations, and one for the RSVP cards. We then mixed our inks to match perfectly.

Papillon Press custom mixed ink for wedding invitations letterpress

Custom-mixed ink for letterpress printing wedding invitations. 2021.

Once the ink was mixed, it was time to print! We printed all of these on luxurious, thick, 100% cotton paper. It's hard to tell from the photos, but the paper is actually a very light dove gray. We print all of our items one color at a time, and with these we did green first!