I have reached a realization - I am an invitation snob. The first thing I do when I get an invitation to a wedding? I rub my thumb over the wording to feel the texture. I love the raised type. When it's not raised, I just feel like something is missing.
I have learned that this raised typing is called thermography. While less expensive than letterpress, it is more expensive than digital printing. Hmmm. So much for keeping to that budget. We have been planning to make our own invitations. We would have them printed, and then add our own embossed stamp. Our original pricing estimate from the printer was very reasonable - but that was before I discovered thermography and my invitation-snobiness.
Do you ever notice whether the type on wedding invitations is raised? Or am I the only invitation snob out there? :)
Sunday, April 5, 2009
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I am an invitation snob too, but mainly because that is what I do for a living. :) I use a solid ink press that also creates the raised type, but for much less than thermography. When you are set to do your wedding invites, you should do a quick search on solid ink invitation printers - the cost is more along the lines of digital press prices, so you can get a similar look for much less. :)
ReplyDeleteI have not been a snob. But now that I am attempting to DIY'ing my invitations I notice all these things. As much as I would love to have all these things in my wedding not going to happen! Do you know how your invitations are going to be designed yet?
ReplyDeleteI totally am...that's why I'm so worried about mine not coming with inner envelopes!! Other than that they are phenominal! Ahhh...what's a girl to do??
ReplyDeleteI notice these things but it's my business too, so I guess I'm just prone to every little detail. But I will say that most of your guests will not notice, and when you have to cut costs DIYing is the way to go, and not to worry about these small details.
ReplyDeleteOh I loved that raised feeling!!!! We are actually using thermography for our invites and I cannot wait until we get them so that I can run my fingers across the lettering.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate fancy invitations and raised lettering and all that jazz, but it definitely didn't hurt my feelings that I couldn't afford it myself! haha
ReplyDeleteI'm a sometimes snob! I love letterpress though few of my friends had it. My first friend to marry definitely had his invitations printed himself - font was large, same size throughout and covered almost every inch!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate design and what's wrong with that?
Oh I'm thinking of embossing our initials, because I love texture! That's why I'm using cut-outs, ribbons, etc. I'm going to detail all that later today. I'm still not sure about the embossing because we have no monogram yet!
Ours had raised type... but I don't think they were thermography. We ordered ours through Paper Pad on Venice Ave... they were fantastic and not too expensive. I think we paid like $350 or so. We tied the ribbons on ourselves.
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