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Swashes, italics, letterpressed invitations, wax seals. This project required a balance of modern and “classic” typographic style. We think the results are quite pleasing.

Since this was our (my and my fiancée’s) wedding, I decided to take care of all the design and printing myself. This was much easier said than done. When you’re your own client, things tend to take twice as long as you had hoped. But, we stayed under budget and came out with a wedding invitation we’ll remember forever.

The invitations were printed by Lunar Caustic Press on Natural White Strathmore 130lb cover bristol in black ink.

We used Burgues Script and Adobe Caslon Pro and opted to go with just an outer envelope, invitation, and reply postcard to save on paper. We tried to go for recycled paper, but found it pricey and hard to find!

After all was said and done, we finished it all off with a wax seal of the letter “J,” for Jackson.

With special thanks to Joe Clark for the design guidance on this project.