Semi-custom Wedding Collection Process & Ordering
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Step 1: Explore & Order
Choose your invitation suite from our semi-custom collection. Order samples if you’d like to see them in person before ordering your full suite. When you’re ready, place your order on the semi-custom invitation suite of your choice. Fill out the forms that will communicate your information and wording.
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Step 2: Design
We’ll get right to work designing your pieces. You’ll receive a digital proof within 4-5 business days from when you place your order. If you specified that you’d like to explore other paper or envelope colors, or other customizations, we’ll discuss those things now too.
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Step 3: Refine & Revise
We’re getting closer to the end of the design process. We’re making sure that everything is perfect and just how you imagined it. We don’t want to rush you—every suite includes two rounds of revisions and while we’re happy to keep at it until you’re perfectly content, additional rounds of revisions will be billed at $75 each.
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Step 4: Proof & Approve
We’ll send you your final digital proof and as well as making sure that the design and elements (paper, envelopes, etc) are right, you’ll carefully proof it for spelling and accuracy, and give us a written “OK!” that all is ready to go. We’ll order the special letterpress printing plates with your custom design.
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Step 5: Printing
We’ve got everything for your suite in the studio and we’re ready to print! Each piece of your suite will be carefully printed in our studio on one of our antique presses, one at a time.
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Step 6: Packaging and Delivery
We’ll carefully package your suite and ship it you via UPS or USPS, insured and with a signature confirmation for delivery. Get ready to receive your new beautiful wedding stationery! Hooray!
Our Papers
The invitations in our semi-custom collection are printed on thick, luxurious 220# paper, made from 100% cotton. A by-product of the cotton industry, our house paper is actually considered a reclaimed fiber and the best part is, no trees were harmed in its production. It takes an impression beautifully and can withstand a trip through the USPS.
Other suite components print on corresponding paper in 110# unless pictured otherwise. We also love to use colored and handmade papers—if it’s not an option in the suite you’ve chosen, feel free to ask. We’re always happy to customize.
Our equipment
Everything that we make is printed in-house on one of our two antique presses (and often, on both!). The first to enter our shop was a Chandler & Price platen press circa 1910. We later added a Vandercook SP-15 cylinder press from the early 1960’s. We use a Challenge manual guillotine-style paper cutter and various other small tools and equipment to create your stationery.
