
Design exploration
Wedding Invitation Suite concept: Cotton 32pt · Chemical etch — TBD logo and fine-rule border (raised unetched relief on brushed steel surface)
Wedding Invitation Suite · wedding
The recipe
- Product & size
- Wedding Invitation Suite
- Paper
- Cotton 32pt
- Print & finishes
- Chemical etch — TBD logo and fine-rule border (raised unetched relief on brushed steel surface), Laser engrave — personalized message and bottom date line, Per-unit laser engrave for variable attendee first name, Laser-cut rounded corners on steel card, Colorplan Racing Green envelope with printed ivory cotton liner, Custom die-cut, Deboss
Studio note
This is the furthest stretch from the ivory-cotton reference — and it is recognizably the same card. Same 7×5 landscape, same centred-classical composition, same TBD logo top-centre, same personalized message, same tracked date line at bottom. But the substrate is brushed stainless steel. The chemical etch leaves the logo and border standing proud of the surface — genuinely raised, as the customer requested — and the laser-deboss message burns warm into the brushed ground where navy ink would have been. The card arrives in a deep teal Colorplan envelope with an ivory cotton liner printed in navy, so the brand colours (teal, ivory, navy from the brief and the reference image) frame the piece on arrival. At 50 cards, per-unit laser deboss for personalization is feasible. This is the kind of keepsake an attendee pins to a corkboard for years — industrial-material craft, no ink, no foil, all texture and light. Coverage is set to generous because you asked for it — the mark plus a pattern, border or repeated motif across the surface.