Luxury wedding stationery

I was really pleased to see this infor­ma­tive and help­ful arti­cle about qual­ity wed­ding sta­tionery on the Ivy Ellen blog. The inter­net is full of infor­ma­tion about wed­ding invi­ta­tions on a bud­get, and mak­ing your own — but for those of you who are look­ing for high qual­ity wed­ding invi­ta­tions, there’s very lit­tle advice to be found.

As a cal­lig­ra­pher, brides often send me their wed­ding invi­ta­tions to be writ­ten in cal­lig­ra­phy. I get to see all kinds of invites, from expen­sive wed­ding invi­ta­tions to hand­made cards, and there’s a big dif­fer­ence in style and qual­ity. Cheaper wed­ding invi­ta­tions are fine, but lux­ury wed­ding invi­ta­tions are some­thing really spe­cial. If you can afford them, go for the best! Jeremy from Ivy Ellen explains why far more elo­quently than I can…

Why buy good qual­ity wed­ding stationery?

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It’s not often that brides look at wed­ding dresses and think “I could do that”. Usu­ally you look at a dress, think “wow that‘s gor­geous”, try it on and imag­ine your­self in it on your big day. Then it’s just a ques­tion of how are going to pay for it. Cash or credit.

It’s rare to look at a wed­ding dress and just see fab­ric, and a project that, in your mind, you could totally do on your own. This is the dress for you, you’re going to buy it and you’re going to feel a mil­lion dol­lars in it on your big day.

Many brides and grooms see wed­ding sta­tionery dif­fer­ently. They just see paper and text, and can­not see what’s in it for them when they spend their hard earned bud­get on good qual­ity sta­tionery. So what’s in it for you?

Gor­geous Wed­ding Invitations

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Well, firstly you get expert advice. Do you know about type­set­ting, colour bal­ance, com­po­si­tion, word­ing, paper stocks, enve­lope styles or FSC accred­i­ta­tion? Even if you know some of these things you may not really under­stand how to put all these things together.

As Brian De Palma, the film direc­tor, once said, “any­one can record some­thing on a video cam­era, but direct­ing is the art of invok­ing emo­tion and feel­ing in your audiences”.

It’s the same with wed­ding sta­tionery. Top wed­ding design­ers bring all their design expe­ri­ence into cre­at­ing wed­ding sta­tionery that feels great, to look at and to touch. Choose a com­pany that lives and breathes paper and design and watch the emo­tional response it cre­ates in you and your guests to enhance your spe­cial day.

Cus­tomer ser­vice and wed­ding invitations

Sec­ondly, those that do choose the DIY route always under­es­ti­mate the time and effort it takes into design­ing, pro­duc­ing and dis­trib­ut­ing their own wed­ding sta­tionery. We know because we just set up a new com­pany (Ivy Ellen) to do this. It took us six months to get it all sorted and we are experts in greet­ings cards with 10 years expe­ri­ence design­ing, pro­duc­ing and sell­ing cards to the finest shops in the world.

Work­ing with a wed­ding sta­tionery expert means that all this work is done for you. All you have to do is choose a com­pany and a design that feels right for you and match it to your colour scheme.

If you choose to make your own sta­tionery, what­ever you do, avoid copy­ing a wed­ding designer’s work to cut cor­ners. This is bad Karma and dis­rupts the pos­i­tive flow of cre­ative energy around the world. Not some­thing for your spe­cial day to be a part of.

Sup­port cre­ative small businesses

Finally, work­ing with a qual­ity wed­ding sta­tionery com­pany means that you are con­tribut­ing to the cre­ative spirit in humankind.

Just like buy­ing a work of art from an artist brings warmth and joy to your soul and con­nects you to that artist, so it is with buy­ing beau­ti­ful wed­ding sta­tionery from a good company.

In fact often you are sup­port­ing a net­work of cre­ative peo­ple con­nected to bring­ing the sta­tionery into life. We work with design­ers, illus­tra­tors and even musi­cians who sup­ple­ment their incomes by work­ing with us, to keep doing what they love.

What bet­ter sen­ti­ment to add to your wed­ding than to spread the love of your day out to peo­ple who are pur­su­ing their dreams and cre­at­ing beau­ti­ful things to exist in the world.

Love your gor­geous wed­ding stationery

Gor­geous wed­ding sta­tionery adds to the rich visual fab­ric of your day and bright­ens up your guests’ tables, it sends a cue to your guests as to what to expect and shows them what that you care about them, you care about beauty in the world and you want to share the joy and har­mony of your most spe­cial of days with them.

Most impor­tantly though it is an emo­tional expres­sion of your own self, like the song you choose to dance your first dance to or the dress you choose to wear. It can have a pro­found life affirm­ing mean­ing beyond just paper and text.

Thank you to the team at Ivy Ellen for sug­gest­ing this arti­cle for inclu­sion on the Eng­lish Wed­ding site. I hope you’ve found it useful.

Ivy Ellen design and make beau­ti­ful, colour­ful and orig­i­nal wed­ding sta­tionery, and are one of my favourite Eng­lish wed­ding sta­tionery com­pa­nies. View their gor­geous wed­ding invi­ta­tions on their web­site, be inspired by their wed­ding invi­ta­tion blog, and be a fan of Ivy Ellen on Face­book so you’ll never miss a thing!