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This is the Hurley collection from eb1 and is perfect way to set a grand tone to your wedding day.  The simple floral pattern looks striking in this colourway but all their  designs are available in 28 colourways.  You can choose to have the wedding invitation supplied with a luxury wallet which features a matching satin ribbon as pictured above, or choose the simpler version of the day or evening inivation which also features a matching ribbon on the invite but without the wallet.  The invitations will have the guests names printed on them which I personally think is a brilliant idea when the text is part of the design of the card, the last thing you want to do is make any mistakes or worry that your handwriting isn’t up the the job!  What I also like about this supplier is that you can coordinate the entire wedding stationery range including a choice of name place card designs and napkin rings that have been designed to fit the style of the ranges perfectly.   

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Dreamy heart clouds with your names printed in them sit on floral and spiral designed card to give a pretty and romantic wedding invitation from Pink Tulip.  The fully coordinated stationery is shown in six colours on their website, but if you have a specific colour you would like your stationery, then for a £10 charge you can send them a swatch and they will match it for you.  The pricing is split into quantity bands with the cost for 50-74 cards being £2.50 each for the wedding invitations which includes a white envelope.  Table plans are very reasonably priced at £18, so if your looking for unique and contemporary wedding stationery that can be tailored to your liking, have a look at their website.  

Envelopment wedding invitations.   They are all over the place but what are they you might ask ? Well,  there is nothing particularly clever about them.  Envelopments is the brand name behind an American company that churns out a huge range of innovative card blanks in an endless variety of colours and patterns all over the world.  There is nothing particularly clever about them.You might think I am not a big fan of envelopments….  on the contrary …. I do rather like many of the styles.  I am just a little jealous that I didnt think of such a painfully simple idea.

Envelopments hit our shores a few years ago and now there are quite a few licenced suppliers of the brand.  Many wedding stationers have tagged the designs on to their existing products as a quick and easy way of expanding their portfolio.  Because the novelty is in the card folds, shape and patterns there is usually not much more for the stationery designer to do other than maybe add a bit of ribbon,  a small embellishment and a personalised insert.  They have even devised some software (with Mountain Cow) to make printing inserts in the right shape and style (or recipe as they like to call it).  Easy peasy job done.  Needless to say they are ideal for diy wedding invitations too.To see what all the fuss is about we have hand selected some wedding stationery companies who have embraced the brand with gusto.  Either that or they have been indoctrinated by Envelopments inc who have brainwashed them in their quest to take over the word with cleverly folded patterned card blanks.  I might write to Russell T Davies because this would make a great Doctor Who episode.

Anyway….. on to the envelopment design nominees are (in no particular order) :

Wedding Paraphernalia- They certainly have a wide range of envelopment wedding stationery designs and they promise even more designs soon.  They also supply envelopment blanks for the DIY enthusiast and if you are in the North of England you can visit their shop in Northamptonshire.

XOXO - Some lovely striking Envelopment and Pocketfold designs (Pocketfold is just another brand by the Envelopment team… just another template style really).  There are some really funky designs in their portfolio and some beautiful wallpaper print wedding invites.

Purely Embelishments- This is more of a craft site but it does give you a good overview of the different envelopment card styles that are used to create wedding stationery such as Pocketfolds, Z Cards, Gate Cards, and dare we say plain old folded cards. 

There are plenty of others of course …. too many to list here but will no doubt be featured in future articles on this site because, for better or worse, it looks as though envelopments are here to stay.  Lets hope it doesn’t make our budding new wedding stationery designers too lazy in their creations.

These envelopment style invitations from Wedding Writes have been partly lined with a silk pattern to give a wonderfully opulent feel.  When the invitation is closed it is held together with an elasticated bow and also comes with an outer envelope that matches the old-gold coloured invitation card.  There are four silk pattern designs available including a lovely powder blue colour, the invitations cost £4.50 each.  There are menus and place cards available as well, although they don’t have the lovely splash of silk pattern on them unfortunately, but then as Wedding Writes says, the idea stems from the ancient Chinese dynasties where they lined envelopes to give secrecy and opulence to their correspondence, not to menus and place cards!

Millbank & Kent have recently launched a fetching range of monochrome invitations.  The have used a bold Damask print for their Amelia range.  I like the featured black and white colourway shown above which brings this style of Elizabethan print to life but there are other popular colour choices including cerise, pink and a fetching chocolate brown.

They do have a minimum order value of £250.00 but with a full ensemble of items in the range from Save the Dates to Table Plan you do get a lot of stationery for your money.  They will even plant a tree with every order through their relationship with the Carbon Neutral Company .  A novel idea that helps ease your environmental conscience when you walk away with all that matching wedding stationery.  Request a couple of free samples from the Millbank and Kent website to get a feel for their new collection for yourself