Real Weddings - Jean & Ken

(above photo taken by paperwhites press of our damask letterpress wedding invitation)
photos below by brett winter lemon

Invitation Spotlight - "Bristol Letterpress"

The Bristol letterpress is shown here in Cocoa and Wicked Green Inks printed on our thick amazingly soft 100% cotton Warm White paper and pictured here with Wicked Green Envelopes. This invitation fresh and classic.

Tyepfaces shown: Zaner Script and Mrs. Eaves

Invitation Spotlight - "Sail Away"

This invitation was done for a Bald Head Island, North Carolina wedding. Katherine is one of the sweetest brides we have had the pleasure of working with this year!

Sail Away is shown here in our Navy Ink on Classic White with an Envy Invitation Mat. This went into a Classic White Envelope with an Envy Envelope Liner with the response card going into an Envy Envelope! It was so fresh and fun.

Typefaces Shown: Little Lord Fontleroy and Gill Sans

Invitation Spotlight - "Hanna"

This is a really fun design! The colors shown here are Magenta and Black Ink on Classic Ecru with a Pyrite Invitation Mat and our Rubelite (metallic) Envelopes. The response card is in a Pyrite envelope. Enjoy!

Typefaces shown: Lily Wang and Mrs. Eaves

Backpack Buddies Program - Paperwhites to donate backpacks!!!

No need to do anything special - all orders over $250 will add another backpack to our donation! :-)



The backpack buddies program and interfaith food shuttle is something in our community we really believe makes a difference. These kids need our help more than ever! This year we are changing it up a bit and donating backpacks to the cause. Stay tuned for updates on how many backpacks we end up being able to buy!

How it works...
The food bank collects backpacks and monetary donations as part of their "backpack buddies" program. They are filled again and again for some of the 91,000 children on free or reduced lunches in our area. They are given to kids for the weekends through their schools on Fridays so they have food to eat on weekends! How neat is that!

Stamps...Stamps...Stamps

Thankfully there are fun options beyond the liberty bell or the kitschy "wedding stamps" - have you seen the new ones? Can we say CHEESY?



The way I see it there are a few more fun options out there...

Option One: Design your own

At places like zazzle.com or stamps.com, postage can be designed from photos, image and personalized to your event! You can't get more personalized then that! Once we used a vintage postcard image of a courthouse for two attorneys who were getting married. The significance? It was where they met when they were law students working as clerks. The stamp even landed in the hands of the judge! Neat stuff.

Option Two: Unused Vintage Postage Stamps

There is nothing more fun that finding vintage postage stamps for your envelopes. Remember you may need to use a lot of them to add up to the postage it requires to mail stamps these days. If you are hand addressing, consider you may need to allow extra space for those stamps. Do a sample first with stamps before you write on the envelopes! A good tip is to find as many high face-value stamps as possible first and add on accordingly. Anything above 15 cents is a seriously good find! Most vintage stamps range from 3 to 8 cents and if you do the math, you will need rows and rows of little ones to add up to the correct postage.

Tips:

Be sure they are unused (and confirm that they CAN be used for postage)

Look for a local stamp shop or on ebay (search unused US stamps), kenmore stamp, Champion Stamps

Option Three: During your engagement watch for limited edition stamps that are cool!

Right now there are some awesome "king and queen of hearts" stamps that are neat! It can be especially hard to find a large selection anymore especially as quickly as the post office has been raising postage rates. Good Luck everyone!

A Mountain Wedding to Remember...

I don't know why, but Leah and Chris have always stuck with me. There was just something very special about them. I did this invitation almost two years ago, but I thought it would be a nice time to dig it out of the archives and do a post about it! Recently we have done invitations for a few other mountain weddings. To me, the mountains are just magical, God's country. They just touch my soul.

Leah and Chris were one of our "custom" couples. In our initial meeting I learned that the bride would be wearing a blush pink gown. The groom would be in chocolate brown. They wanted brown and green in their invitations, but also wanted blush pink into it somewhere. The following is the result.

We did 7x7 pocket invitations in French Roast tied with hemp. The invitation mats are blush pink and wasabi green. There were several outdoor design elements that were all tied in to the invitation and again repeated on the wedding day. We worked with "foryourparty.com" for the napkins. They were able to take our custom artwork and make the napkins and matches. Enjoy!








these napkins summarize this couple, just plain great to work with, we created the custom artwork that went on the napkins...

New Colors Arrive at PWP!

We are always looking at trends and trying to stay on top of the latest "hot colors here at PWP! With that said, we have added several new "ink" colors to our line! All of our inks are designed to coordinate with our papers and envelopes.

tibetan blue (new ink & invitation mat)


kumquat (invitation mat, envelope and liner)

Peony Love Pocket 5x7

Our peony love pocket, French Roast 5x7 Signature landscape pocket, with Azalea Backing Card, Azalea Ink & Cocoa type on Classic Ecru. This is for a July 5th wedding, the "Welcome Dinner Card" has bursts of fireworks.





Custom stamp with monogram for our Peony Love Pocket.

Kim & Phillip Amythest Pocket Dandelion Burst

We don't always have all of our custom work on our website. Here is one of our recent designs...

Amythest Envelopments Pocket, Wisteria Backer Cards, Classic Ecru Cardstock, Wisteria/Eggplant Ink, Diamond Metallic Envelopes with Wisteria Liner...

Dana's Letterpress Wedding Invitation Set

Dana's wedding invitation set shown here in wasabi green ink. I am in love with this one for sure.

Monique Lhuillier invitations have arrived!

We are excited to announce the arrival of our newest invitation line, Monique Lhuillier. Monique has been famous for her wedding gowns for several years, and now she has come up with her own wedding invitation line inspired by her wedding gowns. They are printed on thick luxurious papers - available in letterpress, engraved and thermography options!

We will have some of them on display at the Cary Magazine Wedding show at the Umstead, so don't miss coming by to see for yourself these awesome invitations!

A Valentines Day Wedding!

I am so excited for Gerard & Lisa as they say their vows and get married on Valentines Day! They were a joy to work with on both their wedding invitations and wedding day stationery.

new design - Dahlia

Introducing...Dahlia, our newest addition to the paperwhites collection, designed by Andrea. In other news, we will soon be adding a coordinating Save the Date for one of our most popular designs, Peony Love.

Bridal Show Fun!

A huge thank you to Brian Mullins Photography for the booth photographs and for being the mastermind of the M&M photos and all of the interesting ornate frame shots on our website. We are SO grateful for all of your help. :-)