Photo from Ephemera Website

We have been looking into invitation options for the wedding. According to most sites, you should order invitations 6 months before, so that’s next month for us. Plus, we wanted to send out the save-the-dates soon (we really need to get on that) and we wanted both them to have the same look as the invites.

While we wanted to do the design ourselves, we also wanted to have them letterpress printed. I just love how old this style of printing is and how beautiful it looks. We also wanted to have them printed on 100% recycled paper. After searching around online, I found it a bit difficult to meet these three requirements. It seems like more people buy designed invites and print them out themselves, than the reverse. I found plently of letterpress printing places, but most were either very expensive, did not allow for much input on design, or did not offer a 100% recycled paper option.

Then on a recommendation from theknot.com, I found Ephemera. I sent out an inquiry to this site and received a detailed, personal response from Tara Bliven, the designer. She does completely customized designs, based on what images, fonts, and colors you desire. They charge less than some letterpress sites that do no design. And they have an option for hand-made, 100% recycled paper (see image)! We received samples from them and will definitely be using them for our invites. Now we just need to get our save-the-dates done!

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