4th of July Wedding Invitation

Wedding season is in full effect!  I was contact by Laura to design an invitation for a wedding that would be during 4th of July weekend.  The challenge was, how do you incorporate the Indepedence Day holiday "feel" without making it look like an invitation to a backyard barbeque?

I had just the thing.

There is a letterpress technique called "blind" letterpress that I'd benn dying to try out, this was the perfect opportunity.

We came up with a graphic that emobied the holiday (fireworks) and then letterpressed it into the paper without ink, hence the "blind" part, get it?

We used 220# 100% cotton paper (for those of you who aren't paper geeks like me, that means THICK) and the impression just popped of the page.

It was simple, understated and just lovely:

Close up:

It's always fun to create something "new" and once again, the bride was just such a joy to work with.

Thanks Laura for letting me help you design your invitations!