Types of Bespoke Wedding Invitations Part 2

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Types of Bespoke Wed­ding Invi­ta­tions… Part 2

Wel­come to what is the sec­ond part of a post on the types of wed­ding sta­tionery that you can find, not just sold by Artemis Sta­tionery but in the wider sta­tionery world.  You can fol­low the link to the first part here.  We’re talk­ing about the var­i­ous types of invi­ta­tions that can be bought as well as indi­cat­ing the price points they can be found at and how the invi­ta­tions can be used.  That might sound silly as obvi­ously all invi­ta­tions are used to invite peo­ple to an occa­sion.  But some lend them­selves more to mak­ing a big showy impres­sion; oth­ers are neat and per­fectly formed.  Some are tra­di­tional while oth­ers are able to be packed full of information.

Tri­fold Invitations

Flo­rence Tri­fold Invi­ta­tion show­ing some of the inside of the invitation

Now this is one of our big invites, in more ways than one. In an enve­lope they just look like a 15cm square card. Noth­ing spe­cial, take them out and they have a great design on the cover but it’s when you open the cover the show really begins as there is a sec­ond cover which opens out in the oppo­site direc­tion. The inte­rior of the invi­ta­tion spans 3 sides mak­ing a very large 45 cm across. The cen­tre panel has the invi­ta­tion text with space for infor­ma­tion on either side. We nor­mally include a map on the left (included in the price) and on the right put a detach­able RSVP which leaves the invite still intact and will look great on any man­tel­piece or shelf.

These invi­ta­tions are some of our finest, tak­ing longer amounts of time to design and make. We attach the inte­rior pan­els to the inside of the cover for a very high qual­ity look and feel. Though items printed on a sin­gle sheet are avail­able from other providers, ours have proved very pop­u­lar and are our sec­ond high­est sell­ing type of invite. They are a good way to make a big impres­sion and to pack in a lot of infor­ma­tion. These are some of our more expen­sive invi­ta­tions due to the time, effort and amount of mate­ri­als needed to make them. Sim­i­lar sized invi­ta­tions can be found at lower prices where the invi­ta­tion is made from 1 piece of card rather than four or five with the rsvp we attach. Invite Count: 16

Tri­este Tri­fold invi­ta­tion front cover and RSVP panel

Lay­out of the inside of a Tri­fold wed­ding invi­ta­tion from Artemis Stationery

See Flo­rence, bespoke wed­ding invi­ta­tions and sta­tionery range on Artemis Sta­tionery here See Tri­este, bespoke wed­ding invi­ta­tions and sta­tionery range on Artemis Sta­tionery here

Bifold Invi­ta­tions

These could be cards where the text is printed on the inside with­out a paper insert. Our ver­sion though is a smaller ver­sion of our tri­fold hav­ing two sides rather than three on the inside of the invite. So we com­bine the infor­ma­tion with an rsvp panel. It’s still a very impres­sive invite, just not quite as expen­sive as the Tri­folds. We have sold them as Day invi­ta­tions and Evening invi­ta­tions, recently they were used as evening invites by a client who had bought Tri­fold for the Day Invi­ta­tions. Invite Count: 17

Inside of a Bifold Invi­ta­tion show­ing the detach­able RSVP on the left side

See Reg­gio Emilia baroque inspired bespoke wed­ding sta­tionery range on Artemis Sta­tionery here

Pock­et­fold Invitations

Pock­et­folds —  if you’ve not seen one they are well named as the invi­ta­tions con­tain a pocket on the inside.  The pocket is not just there for vanity’s sake, they’re used to con­tain an RSVP and infor­ma­tion sheets.  There are numer­ous ways of mak­ing pock­et­folds, on some a pocket is lit­er­ally added to the invite.  This tends to be for invi­ta­tions that have a lot of print­ing to the design.  With other pock­et­folds the pocket is made by fold­ing the card over.  This tends to be for more craft style cards as they’re often made with a coloured card which can’t be printed on.  Our Pock­et­folds are the first type and are essen­tially either our Bifold or Tri­fold cards with an added pocket. These tend to be higher priced invi­ta­tions espe­cially if there’s lots of addi­tional infor­ma­tion cards. Invi­ta­tion Count: 19

A Tri­este Pock­et­fold bespoke wed­ding Invi­ta­tion on one of our work benches

Book­let Invitations

Tri­este book­let invi­ta­tion in mint with swarovski crystals

Also known as the check book invites these are our most pop­u­lar invi­ta­tions. I think they’re a per­fect com­bi­na­tion of style, forum and func­tion. Our book­let invi­ta­tions fea­ture 4 pages, the first being a cover. Our book­let invi­ta­tions have a tabbed design, each page is longer as it goes back so that each page has its title on the tab. This makes the whole invi­ta­tion part of the visual feast.

Small and com­pact, it packs a lot of class and infor­ma­tion within its pages and a RSVP sec­tion that can be returned. At Artemis Sta­tionery these are pre­mium invi­ta­tions. They’re hand­made which means they have a great qual­ity but they will tend to be some of the more expen­sive invi­ta­tions from most providers. Not every provider has the exact type of book­lets that we make, the tabbed design being a less typ­i­cal way of mak­ing these. Invite Count: 20

Padua book­let invi­ta­tion, a design based on the Bride and Grooms name

See Tri­este, bespoke wed­ding invi­ta­tions and sta­tionery range on Artemis Sta­tionery here See Padua, bespoke wed­ding invi­ta­tions and sta­tionery range on Artemis Sta­tionery here

And some of the rest…

There are numer­ous oth­ers avail­able from other sell­ers.  These include Petal folds, these open like a flower – although one with four petals.  They have lim­ited space for infor­ma­tion but do have a bit of a wow as you open then.  Often they can incor­po­rate rib­bon to keep them shut.

Z folds are a bit like our Tri­fold Invi­ta­tions but folded so they look like a z from above or more like an accor­dion.  They have a lot of space and from some places are not too pricey.

Gate­folds open like they’re two gates.  Very sim­i­lar to tra­di­tional cards except they open in a more inter­est­ing way.  This nor­mally makes them more expen­sive than a tra­di­tional card but con­tains the same amount of information.

Add in laser cut­ting which has a whole world of pos­si­bil­i­ties and more of a tech­nique than a type of invi­ta­tion and pop up invi­ta­tions and there is oodles and oodles of sta­tionery out there to choose from.

Final thoughts

The type of invites we sell at Artemis Sta­tionery made it to 20, which is a relief and proof that I can still count.  At least on a good day! I hope it’s been use­ful to any­one con­sid­er­ing what invi­ta­tions they might need to use.

If you’d like to see more of Artemis Stationery’s prod­ucts our web­site is here but there’s a tonne of resources and infor­ma­tion on our blog AS Invites and lots more pic­tures on our face­book page.

It’s worth remem­ber­ing there is a huge vari­ety in prices paid for these items.  While some sta­tionery sell­ers do come at a pre­mium gen­er­ally you do get what you pay for both in terms of the time the designer will spend on your sta­tionery and the qual­ity of the mate­ri­als used.  But the choice of what invi­ta­tion to choose and whether you make it your­self, buy from Artemis Sta­tionery or one of the other many won­der­ful design­ers and sta­tionery pro­duc­ers out there is up to you.

See also http://english-wedding.com/2013/03/types-of-bespoke-wedding-invitations/