Button Invitations

“I do,” said Erika the bride and Todd the groom.

“I do,” says PaperSpecs Gallery Gal, “love this wedding invitation!”

But what would you expect from a graphic designer whose getting hitched to a digital color specialist? The beginning of this lifetime collaboration was created with a true love of letterpress, a tenderly touchable textured paper and a Pantone match-made-in-heaven color of the year. They gathered together the pieces of their invitation with an elegant silky ribbon and then sealed the union with a kiss of golden wax.

“I had a fellow designer do a cool wedding website for her wedding. I still wanted to feel the piece. The woodgrain texture of the folded card, the deboss of the letterpress, the weight of the paper – you can’t get that nor have it as a keepsake from a website,” avows Erika the bride.

“I do! I do so agree!”

Button Invitations was featured as a Paper Inspiration.

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Project Details

Title Button Invitations Client Erika Paras Date August 2010 Design Erika Paras
Partner, On the Button Print Gilah Press + Design
Baltimore, MD Paper Gmund Savannah Bubinga Woodgrain 113 lb Cover; Neenah Crane's Lettra Ecru 110 lb Cover

Production Details

Dimensions 4 5/8" x 6 1/4" Folded Print Quantity 100 Production Time approximately 2 weeks Printing Method letterpress Number of Colors PMS 3258 (Pantone color of the year) & PMS 4695 Finishing and Binding Gilah Press glued Ecru panels onto folded card. We attached turquoise ribbon and placed wax seal.