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thatitalian:
So,

I found a printer! Turns out my other half has a cousin who is best friends with a guy who owns a printers - sorted!

Now, onto the invites! I want something very different with a vintage feel.

So, I am calling in all ideas and any assitance! I trying to think of ideas, sizes, layouts, styles, etc.

Let the help begin!

Original Post:

Hopefully someone on here can help me (or indeed maybe knows a printer!)...

I am trying to get my wedding invitations printed.

There are four postcards (eight sides) in total.

1. Front
2. Main Invite
3. Church Info
4. Hotel Info
5. Reply Card Front
6. Reply Card Back
7. Wedding Day Time-line
8. Traditions (still being designed - but will follow this format)

There is also a holder that will wrap around the postcards to keep each set together.

I'm looking for a letterpress style (deboss) on all invitations including text with the front to include deboss foil blocking on the "&" in a rustic silver.

Can anyone recommend a printer (pref in the UK)? If the price is right am happy to get them from the US!

I've  attached some of them to show you size and design style.

THANKS!

hypernova:
Whew...5.5 hours of dancing...I don't know customs in England, but I doubt people will be dancing that long.

Congratulations on the impending wedding!  It sounds snazzy!

philharris:
First post - but at least it's something I have direct experience of.
Foil stamping is damn expensive in the UK. In the end I bought a machine and did it myself. We went for a foil border and printed text (which meant that we only needed one stamp), and used the border on:
Save the date;
Invitations;
Orders of service;
Place cards;
Thank you cards.

We also used the design printed on some other stuff like banners and direction signs (these came from Vista Print, whom I can recommend, but you need to pay a few pounds over the headline price on their website by the time you include custom images etc)

All of the printing we did was on A6 stock/A5 folded to make booklets. The stamp (126x84mm) cost about £80 (inc vat) from www.colourfoil.co.uk.  If you are stamping a lot of different things then the price is going to rocket quite quickly - you could be looking at £500 just for the stamps. You could google hot foil printers or hot foil stamping for an idea of printers - I found that lots of them wanted much higher minimum quantities than you could ever possibly want for a wedding.

thatitalian:
hypernova: Lol. There are speeches and a candy buffet included in that time so it will only really be 4 hours of dancing. It is a Greek/Italian - believe me there will be lots of dancing!

EDIT: And thanks for the congrats! :cheers:

philharris: Thanks for that! I am only foiling the "&" on the front invitation, so I could get away with one stamp also and it would only need to be 60x30mm tops! How easy is it to foil?

The thing I really want is the debossing! I would love to have plain white A6 textured card with all the bits in purple bits debossed - gives the invite a real professional feel.

CCM:
http://www.elopement-packages.com/

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