Our custom wedding invitations are pressed in letterpress or hot foil on 32pt cotton, so your guests can feel the type under a thumb. Painted edges, blind deboss and a bonded colour core come in when the design calls for them. Order a full suite, a single piece, or something built from scratch. Most full suites for 100 guests land between about 2 500 $US and 5 000 $US.
Fixed price by guest count. Free proof first.
Free digital proof. Nothing prints until you approve it, and a person checks every file first.
You'll probably know which of these you are within a minute. If you don't, start with the suite: it's the one we'd recommend for most weddings, because every piece is pressed in the same run, on the same paper, with the same inks and foils, so everything matches.
RecommendedInvitation, reply card with its own envelope, details card and outer envelope, pressed in letterpress or foil on 32pt cotton. Three suites, priced by guest count, from 1 640 $US for 100 guests.
See suites and prices
Save the dates, an invitation on its own, place cards, menus and programs. Each is fixed-price by guest count, on the same cottons and foils as our suites, so a piece you add later still belongs with the rest.
Save the dates · The invitation only · Place cards · Menus and programs
Duplex and triplex cards with a colour core, die-cut shapes, laser cuts, vellum wraps, and accent pieces in metal, wood or acrylic. These combinations are quoted, not configured. Gus shows you the direction first, then a person prices it properly.
Start a custom conceptOne 5×7 flat invitation in one foil or one letterpress colour on 32pt cotton, with envelopes. If you'll also need reply and details cards, look at the suites first: every piece is pressed in the same run, on the same paper, so they match.
The invitation
5x7 flat, 1 foil OR 1 LP colour, 32pt cotton, envelopes incl. Free shipping in the continental US.
409 €
50 guests
About 3 weeks of production after you approve your proof, then shipping. An estimate, not a guarantee.
Free continental-US ground shipping.
Self-serve price: you set it up, upload print-ready files and check out. Want a designer to check or rebuild your files, extra names, or a finish not listed? Get a custom quote (design prep, proofs until you're happy, a real person on it).
If you're not happy, we reprint. How our quality promise works
Price-Lock Promise
You pay the price you see for the spec you ordered. If our artwork review finds a cheaper spec that suits your design better, we'll suggest it and refund the difference. Any upgrade is charged only if you approve it. If we can't print your artwork well on the ordered spec and you don't want to change it, you get a full refund before anything prints.
See three directions. Tell the Studio your names, date and guest count. Gus, our studio's design assistant, sketches three directions in minutes. They're pictures for choosing a direction, not print files.
Refine it with a person. Change the wording, the colours, the finishes. A designer joins to set your wording and tell you, plainly, if a finish won't print the way it looks on screen.
Approve a free proof. We rebuild your chosen direction as a real print file with real type, and send a digital proof. Nothing prints until you approve it.
About three weeks, then shipping. Production takes about 3 weeks after you approve your proof, then shipping. Tell us your mail date when you start and we'll work back from it with you.
Timings are estimates, not guarantees. Leave yourself a cushion.
Design your suite
Luxury wedding invitations come down to what the press does to the paper and what your guests feel when they pick the card up. Every technique below has a rule it can't break, so we tell you the rule before you fall for the render.
Heat and pressure press a thin metal film onto the paper through a die, so it sits on the surface with a slight bite you can feel. It's how we put light colours on dark paper.
The catch: fine detail survives foil: lines hold to 0.1 mm; we design to 0.15 mm, and a gradient becomes one solid tone.
An inked plate presses the words down into soft cotton, so your guests feel every line with a thumb. Without ink, it's a blind impression that reads by shadow alone.
The catch: letterpress ink is see-through, so light colours on dark paper look chalky (that's a job for foil), and big solid areas print with a soft, suede-like mottle.
The cut stack is clamped and painted by hand, so a line of colour runs around every card. On 32pt cotton it reads as a clear line; on thicker builds, a band.
The catch: edge colour can't follow notches or die-cut windows, and gilded (foil) edges need square corners.
Soft, heavy cotton is the sheet letterpress and blind impressions were made for. Handmade paper adds a deckled edge and a surface no two sheets share.
The catch: gloss spot UV won't cure on cotton. When a design wants a gloss accent there, we use clear foil.
A translucent vellum wrap over the invitation, closed with a wax seal, so guests open the invitation in two steps.
The catch: vellum is see-through by design, so whatever sits under it becomes part of the design. A seal also makes the envelope thicker and stiffer, so weigh one assembled suite at the post office before you buy stamps.
Two sheets pressed separately, then bonded into one card. Each face can carry its own impression, colour or paper, and a coloured core shows as a stripe along every edge.
The catch: it's an extra step with its own cost. It's also the fix whenever an impression on one side would show through on the other.
Metal, wood and acrylic pieces are laser engraved, etched or printed. Letterpress and embossing need soft paper to bite into, so they stay on the cotton pieces. See metal, wood and acrylic wedding invitations.
Many couples start with the invitation, then realise the reply card, the details card and the envelope should all match it. Designing them together keeps the paper, the ink colours and the type consistent from the save the date to the thank-you card. Or order just the invitation, if that's all you need.
Save the date
The first hello.
The invitation
The centrepiece.
Details card
Travel, dress, timing.
RSVP card
With a lined envelope.
Thank-you
The last thing they open.
Backstage is a rock-and-roll suite in matte black PVC with fluorescent chartreuse. Plastic can't take letterpress or embossing, so everything here is printed and laminated.
See suites and pricesMost full suites for 100 guests land between about 2 500 $US and 5 000 $US. Here's what moves a suite inside that range, starting with the part couples don't expect.
Setup is most of the cost on small weddings. Every letterpress plate, foil die and press setup costs the same for 50 cards as for 200. So halving the guest list doesn't halve the price: a Classic suite is 2 690 $US for 100 guests and 2 215 $US for 50. The good news runs the other way too: a few spare suites add little now, while a reprint later pays for the setup again.
| Suite | What's in it | 100 guests |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Invitation and reply card, with envelopes | 1 640 $US |
| Classic (our recommendation) | Essential plus a details card | 2 690 $US |
| Signature | Classic plus printed guest addressing, envelope liners and a wax seal | 4 190 $US |
We recommend Classic for most weddings. The details card carries the travel, timings and dress code that otherwise end up crammed onto the invitation, and the invitation reads better without them.
What pushes a suite toward 5 000 $US: a second ink or foil colour, printing on both sides, liners, a vellum wrap, a die-cut shape, or a metal, wood or acrylic piece. Each extra colour is its own plate or die and its own press pass, so it adds a setup cost that weighs most on smaller guest counts.
All three suites include envelopes, a free digital proof and free continental-US ground shipping. See every guest count and what each suite includes.
Design your suiteFounder project
I'm getting married to Dina in Berlin in November 2026, and I did what I'd do for any client: two full rounds of exploration on our own stocks and finishes. Round one tested materials and moods; round two committed to a blind-embossed map, letterpress in English and Arabic, and one PVC festival pass we couldn't talk ourselves out of.
Read the case study: our founder's own wedding suite
A letterpress suite for a Tuscan weekend, with a wave-cut pocket and the couple's final pick.
Read the case studyShort answers are in the questions below.
Cost
What wedding invitations really cost, by guest count
Timing
When to order and send invitations and save the dates
Wording
Wedding invitation wording for every kind of host
Mailing
Addressing, assembling and mailing your invitations
The suite
What goes in a wedding invitation suite, piece by piece
Sizes
Invitation and flat card sizes
Our sample kit is 8 $US and is credited toward your first order. It isn't a wedding swatch box: it's a bundle of real production samples built around business cards. It still holds what you're deciding between for an invitation: cotton stock, how deep a letterpress bite reads, what a blind emboss does without ink, how a painted edge sits, and a hot foil swatch card with every foil we keep on the shelf. Hold the foils against your own envelope colour before you choose.
Order the sample kit
Most full suites for 100 guests land between about 2 500 $US and 5 000 $US. Our three suites for 100 guests are 1 640 $US, 2 690 $US and 4 190 $US, with envelopes, a free digital proof and free continental-US ground shipping. Extra colours, liners, die-cut shapes and specialty pieces move a suite toward the top of that range. Fully custom builds are quoted, itemised and without obligation.
A wedding invitation suite is the set of cards your guests receive in one envelope: the invitation, a reply card with its own envelope, a details card for travel and timings, and the outer envelope with your return address. Liners, vellum wraps and wax seals are optional finishing. Save the dates and day-of pieces such as menus and place cards can match the suite but are ordered separately.
Yes. The invitation is sold on its own, and so are save the dates, place cards, menus and programs. If you'll need reply and details cards as well, start with the suite: the pieces are pressed in the same run, on the same paper, with the same inks and foils, so they match. Your concept stays saved, so matching pieces can be added later.
Concepts take minutes. Proofing usually takes a few days, depending on how quickly changes go back and forth. Production is about 3 weeks after you approve your proof, then shipping. To find your start date, work back from the day you plan to mail: invitations usually go out 6 to 8 weeks before the wedding, or 8 to 12 weeks for a destination wedding. Allow a week or two to address and assemble, about a week of shipping, about 3 weeks of production and a week or so for concepts and proofing. For a June wedding, that usually means starting the design in February. These are estimates, not guarantees, so tell us your mail date when you start and leave yourself a cushion.
No. We don't offer rush production, and we don't promise delivery dates. If your mail date is tight, tell us before you order and we'll say honestly whether the timeline fits. If it doesn't, you'll hear that before you pay, not after.
The paper and what the press does to it. Luxury wedding invitations are usually heavy cotton (ours are 32pt, about 0.8 mm), with an impression you can feel: letterpress, a blind deboss, or foil pressed on with heat and pressure. Painted edges, a bonded colour core and envelope liners add to it. Flat digital printing on thin card can look the same in a photo, but not in the hand. For 100 guests, most of our full suites land between about 2 500 $US and 5 000 $US, and each extra ink or foil colour adds its own plate and press pass.
The expensive ones are usually about production and postage, not wording. Light ink on dark paper looks chalky, so light-on-dark is a job for foil. Fine detail survives foil; we design to 0.15 mm and only adjust lines under 0.1 mm, and a gradient presses as one flat tone. Order a few spare suites: they add little now, while a reprint later pays for the setup again. Weigh one fully assembled suite at the post office before you buy stamps, especially with a wax seal or a vellum wrap. And set your mail date first, then work back from it.
No. Gus, our studio's design assistant, sketches concepts so you can see a direction and react to it. They're pictures, not print files. A designer then rebuilds your chosen direction with your real names, wording and type, checks every finish against what the press can actually do, and sends you a proof to approve before anything prints.
Yes, it's mostly for you. You bring the feeling and the facts: names, date, venue, the colours you love. We bring the paper, the finishes and the wording. A designer guides you through the choices and tells you plainly when something won't print the way it looks on screen, before you've paid for it.
Yes. Our sample kit is 8 $US, credited toward your first order. It's a bundle of real production samples built around business cards rather than a wedding-specific box, but it shows the cotton stock, a letterpress bite, a blind emboss, a painted edge and a hot foil swatch card with every foil we keep on the shelf.
Yes. Our suites and invitations include free continental-US ground shipping. For Alaska, Hawaii, Europe or anywhere else, tell us where the invitations are going when you start, and we'll confirm the shipping cost before you pay.
Yes. Your concept and its spec stay saved, so a later order of save the dates, menus or thank-you cards uses the same paper, ink colours and type. Ink is mixed fresh for each print run, so a shade can shift very slightly between orders. If an exact match matters, order the pieces that will sit side by side together.
Every trim size we work in, in inches and millimetres.
Invitation, reply, details and envelope drawn together for their real stock and finish.
Three directions in minutes, a person checking every finish, and nothing printed until you approve the proof.
"A wedding invitation is the first thing your guests hold. I'd rather tell you what won't print before you've paid for it than after, and then make the version that will."