By the time we found our invitations last spring, I'd seen hundreds of invites online and spent some time with my maid of honor looking at books. For weeks, I hadn't seen any I truly loved, and I certainly don't want to pay to have something "flat-printed" when it looks identical to something I could do with some creativity and my HP inkjet.
So just for fun, my fiancé and I stopped in at Paper & Chocolate, surely one of the prettiest stores in Dallas. They do wedding invites, and we spent a while looking at books. Mr. Oyster picked a letterpress book, and voila! we found our invites. It was love at first sight! Check it out (click to see it customized many different ways):
I never even allowed myself to dream of letterpress, but Mr. Oyster's advanced degree is in printmaking, so that gives us a great excuse. Plus, it was great to see him so excited about the process. Just wait until you see how they turned out!
These invites are truly a work of art. When we picked them, I'd only just heard of Smock Papers. By now, everyone knows what makes the invites so great: they're printed on ecologically sound (I'll admit, my fiancé cares way more about this than I do) bamboo paper which is very thick and feels like cotton. When I saw this invite in person, I couldn't help but touch the paper over & over again.
I cannot explain how I felt to see this invitation, except to know that it was *the one*! I've only seen a few designs I even wanted to look at twice, and my mother pointed out that this invitation is similar to the few I'd shown her. I didn't even realize that! There's something to be said for listening to your instincts (and your mother).
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