She says: Invitation Suite- Ready to Send

Last last Saturday, we finished packing our invitation suite. I really like our invitations. It’s like a dream come true to have letterpress printing for many Martha Stewart’s devotees. We, in Pemberley, managed to do our own press and imported these delicious cotton paper from US.

I would like to thank Yuwei and Alex (and You Chun the previous week before as well) to help us packed the suites, cut the rubberband, place the sticker in the middle, stapled it and make sure its nicely arranged. Especially to Yuwei who has helped us for 2 weeks. Thanks, gal!

She says: Outdoor Invitation Design (finally)

As I have posted in a previous post, I run a small wedding and event invitation business with my girlfriends, called Pemberley Paperie. Ironically, I am too busy doing other people’s invitation that I almost neglected my own invitation! It is very hard for me to narrow down to a certain style of design, so I created 2 distinctive designs for holy matrimony and wedding banquet. One is cheerful and fun while the other is classy and understated chic.

Currently both is ongoing production and both will be letterpressed! I am so excited about it.

Let me share with you a sneak peek of my invitation and the maps.. I love cute maps!

It is inspired by the pinwheel rosettes decoration that I made. Currently I am planning to make 50-100 rosettes to be hang on the white tiffany chairs. I’ll talk about it next time. Here is the samples of the rosette:

Here is the map of OMSQ. I did all the drawings and the cute buildings. It looks a bit complicated.. i tried my best to simplify it!

Our lovely envelopes are almost ready!

She says: Letterpress Goodness

This morning, I woke up to a letterpress epiphany. I might be able to get letterpress invitations for my wedding!

You might wonder what’s so good about it? *what is letterpress*

The Background :

As some of you might know, my best friends and I run a small wedding stationery company named Pemberley Paperie. If you look at our company blog, mind you, it totally doesn’t represent our style. We are just too busy doing projects for clients, that we neglected our blog.

(Update: I am no longer with Pemberley as I want to focus on my wedding design & decor company, Rosette Designs & Co)

Both Katryn and I are in love with letterpress stationery. We love the deep impression against thick crisp cotton paper (Cotton paper is made from 100% cotton fibers. Practically non-existent in Southeast Asia, which is belligerent considering cotton is a common commodity in Asia. But I can be wrong, who knows). The paper itself is worth the money. I love the handmade feel it evokes. By the way, it is really handmade, manual.

It is not about the design because you can achieve the same design in both letterpress or offset printing. Until now we always use offset printing, because letterpress is only a pie in the sky, in the sweet bye and bye. Only bridezillas or professional brides like us dream about having one.

We jumped up and down when we received our first samples of letterpress invitation from Bella Figura. As a disciple of Martha Stewart’s Weddings and wedding blogs, we study letterpress markets in US and concluded that it is really at a bank-breaking price, can go up to a thousand USD for the set.

(Martha Stewart Weddings magazine fueled the renewed interest in letterpress invitation in 1990s )

But that perception didn’t stop me from sourcing for our own printer. I have designed a fabulous invitation for my holy matrimony, that even I signed at the sight of it (every time, seriously!)

So while I was still in the state of half-consciousness, I was wildly awoke when I read my email!

Ooh la la, I might be able to afford my letterpress dream..

If you have no clue of what letterpress is, here is a brief explanation :

Letterpress is one of the oldest and most beautiful printing techniques and dates back to the invention of the movable type by Johann Gutenberg. Metal plates with the images raised are inked and then pressed against soft, cotton paper. Type was hand-cast and individual characters were hand-set into lines until machine set composition made the process easier. This technique is almost a form of art rather than science as no 2 pieces are exactly alike. Because the paper is run through an antique press dating back to the 1800s, each pieces is subtly unique.

Here are some of the samples from our favorite companies.

Wanna see the machine ?

List of my favorite wedding stationery :

Cheere Berry (the middle suite ), Mika78,Ceci New York and many more!

 

She says: Save the Date!

6 months to our nuptial! I am a little nervous. So many things that I want to do myself, but some have to wait until nearer the date. However I think I will give up some projects, and leave it to the experts, such as the florist, etc! I will meet a few florists these few weeks.

Meanwhile, it’s time to send the Save the Date. Albeit my busy schedule, juggling day job, Pemberley Paperie, church, etc, I managed to finish our Save the Date. I have too many ideas for Save the Date, so I did two! One for the reception and the other one for the Holy Matrimony.

So much for being busy, eh..

We are not going to print it. Save the environment! Go digital.

By : Pemberley Paperie  – pemberleypaperie@gmail.com

She says: Envelopes in the Making (Part 1)

I posted a tutorial of making envelope from doilies a few weeks ago here . Finally last week, a few of my close friends and I did the first mass production in my room. The girls (Clarissa, Irene, Imelda) are such a great help! Although we were not at our best because it was pretty late and we had cocktails in our house after dinner, we managed to do 25 envelopes. Thank you so much, girls!

Here are some of the pictures taken by Andrian. He’s practically my photojournalist.