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    Letterpress/Foil for Korissa & Ken
    November 14, 2011

    Korissa & Ken Foil/Letterpress Invitations

    A stylish save the date and invitation designed by Korissa Tsuyuki

    We’ve worked with Korissa before – printing her business cards – so we new we were in for a treat! She designed this custom save the date and invitation using a perfect mix of patterns and typography. We had almost as much fun photographing the finished pieces as we did printing them. Check out the mix of foil stamping and letterpress after the break.

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    Invitation Ideas: Combining Letterpress & Digital
    September 21, 2011

    Letterpress & Digital Wedding Booklet

    A special invitation booklet we recently produced.

    Combining printing techniques isn’t something new to us but we think the use of digital and letterpress printing in these custom wedding booklets is really smart! The booklet was designed by the groom, Aramazt Kalayjian, as a way to keep all of the information neatly organized.

    We’re no stranger to envelopes stuffed full for a wedding suite and sometimes it can be a bit much to keep all of the pieces together. A booklet is definitely a great choice if you’re having a destination wedding. This is our second post in our new series on Invitation Ideas (previous post: RSVP Liner), let us know what you think about this set after the break.

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    Invitation Ideas: RSVP Liner
    September 6, 2011

    Letterpress Invite w/ RSVP Liner

    A letterpress wedding invitation with a custom reply card liner.

    We’re going to start a new series of posts on new ideas for wedding invitations whether it involves a special printing technique or finishing method, or a unique design. Today’s post will be the first one in the series about new invitation ideas. What makes these invitations unique are the custom liner featuring the reply information instead of a traditional response card. Read the entire post for more information and photos of these invites.

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    Wine Bottle Letterpress Wedding Invites
    August 31, 2011

    Wine Bottle Letterpress Invitation

     We love the playful use of type as a background for these invites.

    Fayna & James were getting married at the NY Botanical Gardens, a wonderful place filled with natural beauty. They worked with Mark & Stef (www.marketstef.ca), a design duo based out of Verdun, Quebec in Canada to create the suite of pieces. We really loved the combination of all the pieces, each one had its own style. The finished pieces were definitely something that anyone would be proud to hang up on their fridge.

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    Big Wedding = Big Invitation
    July 15, 2011

    Letterpress Wedding Invite Booklet

    A custom letterpress wedding booklet we created for Kimberlee & Lemuel.

    Letterpress invitations are gorgeous but sometimes it can be tough to fit everything on a single A7 invite. While some people choose to include additional pieces like accommodation and registry cards, we created this wedding booklet as a way to keep all of the information together. We first introduced this wedding booklet concept back in 2009 (Leah + Zeb’s Wedding Booklet) and couples have been customizing it ever since.

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    All we wanted was a (letterpress) thank you!
    July 10, 2011

    Letterpress Thank You Cards

    Custom Merci Beaucoup Thank You Cards

    Here’s a few quick photos of letterpress thank you cards we printed for a wedding invitation suite. A lot of people put emphasis on the quality and esthetic of their wedding invitations, mostly because they want friends and relatives to know how important it is to them that they’re a part of the wedding. Wedding invitations and save the dates are often the first thing people associate with your special day and its important to start off on the right foot.

    More often than not though people don’t think about thank you cards until after the wedding is over. After starting your wedding off right, don’t your guests deserve a beautifully printed and personalized thank you?

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    Letterpress Invitations with Edge Coloring
    June 23, 2011

    Feathered Flourishes Letterpress Invite

    The colored edges make the invitation really pop!

    Today we wanted to post wedding invitations that we printed for a great couple, Francesca & Robert, a while back. Pulling samples yesterday for a slew of new customers, we stumbled across these invites and loved how great the edge coloring looked on them. Their invites were based on our Feathered Flourishes wedding invitation suite. More photos of these wedding invitations after the break.

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    Dolce Press :: Blog is a letterpress printing resource providing designers and printers with news, updates, and how-to articles on letterpress printing and Dolce Press. Written by Alexandra Daley, the blog covers topics such as letterpress suppliers, troubleshooting, new products (social stationery, wedding invitations, baby announcements, imprintables, and greeting cards), and other topics of interest. Dolce Press is a small letterpress print shop located in Central New York (Ithaca, NY) that offers a variety of services and products including letterpress printing, offset lithography, embossing, engraving, embellishments, stationery, invitations, announcements, imprintables, and more. If you have comments, suggestions, or questions please contact us by phone (516.353.9284) or email (contact@dolcepress.com).
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