Vintage wedding invitations
Old paper, wax and newsprint, rebuilt to work on a phone.
Vintage is a promise about texture. Aged paper with the tone of tea in it, an initial drawn the way a manuscript would draw it, a masthead set in blackletter, a wax seal that has been pressed rather than printed. What makes it fail is doing the texture at half strength: a beige background and a curly font is not vintage, it is a default. Every design here commits to one particular period and finishes it properly.
The oddity (and the pleasure) of a vintage design delivered as a link is that it can do things paper never could. Our Envelope design arrives sealed: the guest sees a closed letter with a wax stamp of your initials, touches it, and the seal cracks and the card slides out. That is a two-hundred-year-old gesture that only works because it is on a screen.
Every vintage design
Each one opens as a live invitation you can scroll through, the same page your guests would see. Every plan includes all 35 designs, so the design you pick does not change the price.
Getting a vintage invitation right
Let the period pick your wording
A manuscript design carrying text-message phrasing fights itself. If the design is old, use the older wording: the hosts named first, the date written out, "request the pleasure of your company". The effect only works when both halves agree.
Use your initials as the motif
Monograms are the most genuinely period detail available to you, and every design here builds one from your names: a written letter over a printed one, in the color of the design. It is the one ornament that is specific to you rather than to the era.
Do not age the photographs too
A sepia filter on top of a vintage design is one layer too many and makes both look like a costume. Leave your photographs as they are: the contrast between a modern picture and old paper is what stops the design tipping into pastiche.
What every one of these includes
The look is the only thing that changes between designs. Every digital wedding invitation we make carries the same working parts:
- Online RSVP: who is coming, how many with them and their names, allergies, a song request and a note to you
- Schedule of the day: two to four events, each with its own time and venue
- Calendar and maps: Google and Apple Calendar buttons, and directions to every venue
- One link to send by text or WhatsApp: change a detail and every guest sees the new version without anything being resent
Questions about vintage invitations
Which vintage era do these designs belong to?
Three of them are specific: Parchment is an illuminated manuscript, The Gazette is early twentieth-century newsprint, and Golden Deco is 1920s art deco. The Envelope and Old Town are less literal: old paper, wax and warm photography rather than one dated style.
Does the envelope really open?
Yes. On the guest's first touch the wax seal cracks, the flap lifts and the card slides out, taking about two and a half seconds. The seal is drawn from your initials rather than being a stock image. Guests with animations switched off go straight to the invitation.
Is vintage a good choice if we are also printing invitations?
It is one of the best, because the textures were borrowed from print in the first place. If you print a small run yourselves, add the invitation's QR code from your dashboard so those guests can RSVP online too.
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