You spent hours on it. You picked the font, adjusted the spacing, tested three different color palettes, and finally landed on something you love. Your Canva wedding invitation looks exactly right on screen. Now you need it to actually look like that when it arrives in your guests’ hands. That’s where the printing decision matters …
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Wedding Invitation Printing Techniques Explained | Paperlust
A Plain-English Guide to Wedding Invitation Printing The print method you choose for your wedding invitations affects how they look, how they feel in someone’s hand, and how much they cost. Some techniques are flat and graphic, others are deeply tactile. Some work on any design, others require specific paper stocks or minimum quantities. This …
Flat Foil vs. Foil Stamp: What’s the Difference? | Paperlust
The Invitation That Makes People Stop There’s something about a gold foil wedding invitation that no amount of beautiful typography or watercolor art can replicate. It catches the light. It asks to be touched. It signals, before guests even open the envelope, that something beautiful is about to happen. If you’re considering foil for your …
Viva La RSVP
Respondez s’ilvous plait? It’s a phrase and a set of initials that every one of us learns as a child on the party invitations you tear off those wonderful notepads. Fast forward to now, and RSVPs are not a thing of the past. They’re incredibly important and are still floating around in their physical form …
Wedding Stationery to Match Your Venue – Melbourne Edition
There are so many wonderful wedding venues in Melbourne, and each of them has a unique style. From the lakeside, modern atmosphere found at Carousel to the Victorian-esque Ripponlea Gardens, there’s something out there for every bride and groom. Your wedding invitation should be a reflection of what is to come at your wedding, and …
Letterpress: The Next Level
The time has come and wedding invites are on the agenda. Congratulations! Knowing what you want in your invitations can be a fickle thing, especially when it comes to those extras you dismiss so easily. However there comes a time when considering one of those extras can distinguish your invitations far above the rest, and …
Save the Destination: Setting the Scene for Your Destination Wedding
If you’ve made the brave decision to have a destination wedding, then you’ll already be up to your neck in planning. There are way too many boxes on your checklist, but remember this: For every flight you have to book, for every hotel you look at, there are a hundred of your guests that need …
The Wedding Planning Checklist – Before the Invitation
Here at Paperlust we have a board of articles we want to write about. At the top of the list: ‘Themed Weddings From the Invitation Out’. But where do we start? There are so many decisions to make before we even get to the invitation. Maybe we got ahead of ourselves. We’ve gone back a …
Wedding Stationery Breakdown: The Essential vs. Non-Essential Cards
The idea for the wedding stationery is a matching suite of cards related to the day that provide all the important information whilst still looking good stuck on peoples fridges. This is probably the first time you’ve planned a wedding so it’s hard to know what you need and what you don’t with everything you’re …