How To Order Handmade Wedding Invitations
Don’t know how to Order Handmade Wedding Invitations? Learn about our handmade paper and the ordering process for your Best-Day-Ever Stationery.
Handmade Wedding Invitations
At Kim+Ink, we use handmade cotton papers with a naturally deckled edge. The process for creating these papers is similar to making paper as a hobby. Made in India, workers make the cotton and water solution, then pour it onto screens which gives the distinct tiny grid design of handmade paper you can sometimes see on these pieces. When the paper is taken off the screens, the squeezing process that removes the water from the cotton leaves a rough edge that we call deckling.
No two pieces of paper are exactly the same shape or thickness, giving this stationery its natural gorgeousness. Because of the individuality of each paper, we can’t stack of pile of papers into a laser machine and hit “print 200.” We print each paper one at a time!
Therefore, our handmade wedding invitations have two important aspects most online companies don’t have.
- You are not limited to our templates: your choice of wording and style is what we design and print for you. The sky is literally the limit.
- Each invitation is hand fed one at a time through a photo-quality printer using 5 ink jet colors. The variation of ink color for your chosen printed font is infinite.
How To Order Your Invitations
The process of ordering cotton handmade deckled paper wedding stationery:
Research:
This first part is up to you.
Use wedding websites such as Zazzle or minted.com to find samples of invitation suites you like.
- Which fonts do we like?
- How do we want to word our invitation?
- What color of ink do we want? Place a sample on the storyboard for us to color match.
- What size, shape, and how many cards do we want?
Stationery Suite Requirements:
Wedding stationery suites can involve several cards, or if you have a small wedding where guests know the venue and how to get there, you can get by with putting everything on one card, using both front and back.
We don’t recommend printing on both sides of our handmade papers, unless you use a medium to light colored ink. Black ink or the darkest of any color could show through these cards. So the minimum we recommend with dark ink is two cards: one larger card with the invitation, and a smaller card with reception, accommodations, RSVP info, etc. However, if you have a wedding website you can direct guests to access all the details and to respond right on the website, which you can provide the link to on the invitation front. (Here we consider that just slightly tacky, but each to their own. We recommend the second smaller paper for any information other than the invitation itself. Sorry.)
The cost of the invitations using two cards versus printing on both sides is negligible. Since we hand feed each card, and each side of the cards, a lot of the cost is handling rather than the price of the card itself.
Envelopes:
Again, some research is involved.
- Do we want handmade envelopes to match the paper? Single or double envelopes (double is so-o-o classy, in our opinion.)
- Is our stationery suite bulky (several cards tied with a ribbon, sealed with a wax seal, etc.)? If so, you may need mailing boxes for safe delivery.
- Do we want to order our own envelopes to save time? (You can begin addressing and attaching stamps while you wait for us to print and deliver your invitations.) We can give you links to quality envelopes.
Now you’re ready to order…
Send us an email at kimenink@gmail.com which includes:
- Your storyboard.
- Wedding details and exact invitation wording.
- Accompanying cards details.
- Your decision on envelopes.
First, we’ll email you a cost estimate, and if you like our quote,
we will then create a mockup of your invitation and email the sample of your dreams, or, if there’s time, snail mail you a sample of your complete stationery suite to your mailbox.
