our process

1 | Design Selection
Select your preferred design that reflects your aesthetic and style of your wedding. Think if you need any extras like detail cards, a wedding map or digital printing of envelopes.
You can also add an extra card from another design if it suits your needs better, we will adapt it to fit your invite design during the design process(e.g if you love The Décor but want a wedding map you can add this from another design and we will design it to fit The Décor style).

2 | Online Shop
There are drop down selections for printing technique, paper choice and quantity. Selecting each drop down according to your preference will show you the final price below the picture.

3 | Unsure about the choices?
Scroll down our Semi Custom Guide to get a deeper insight into the different options for printing and papers. If you need help, don’t hesitate to drop us an Email here.

4 | The Finer Details
After you have placed your order we will contact you via Email personally regarding the details of your order. You will receive an order form and a more detailed guide of all the possibilities of your selected design. If your package includes illustrations, we will ask you to send us names, place and pictures of your location and your preferred view of the building. We will also be there to help you with any doubts you have about options and choices.

5 | The Design Process
Once we receive your order form back from you our work starts! We will get designing and create your beautiful stationery suite. Within approx. 10 working days (or upon individually agreed timeline with you) we will send you a PDF file with a preview of your suite. This will include any extras you have chosen and give you a precise idea of the final look of your suite.

6 | Fine-Tuning & Corrections
Once you receive our Preview PDF make sure to check all print items throughly. All our Semi Custom packages include one round of corrections to perfect your print product. Further corrections that are not included in the package price will be invoiced separately with a flat fee of € 45,00/correction round per print product.

7 | Approval & Production
After you final approval we need approx. 3-6 weeks to complete printing and assembly of your suite. After that we will send your order off to you or you are welcome to come pick it up from our studio!

8 | Timing
Calculate that we approx. need 6-12 weeks to complete your order from order to delivery-ready product. If you wish for a specific timeline, please discuss availability with us prior to ordering.

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Printing options

Letterpress printing, sage green Save the Date card, wedding stationery

Letterpress print
(Relief)

A type of relief printing that produces a debossed impression of the design on to the paper, allowing you to feel the letters and illustrations on the paper.
Everything we Letterpress print is made on our Heidelberg Stellas from the 1950ies, printing each sheet one by one. For Letterpress printing we use liquid inks, that we mix by hand using the Pantone colour system. Allowing us a huge selection of colour shades and beautiful opaque colours. We can also deboss without colour (it also counts as a colour because it is a separate printing round). A light colour on dark paper will not create great results due to the fact that the printing inks are slightly transparent. Letterpress is at it’s most beautiful when printed in a darker shade than the paper colour and preferably on light coloured papers.

Hotfoil printing in gold foil, wedding map

Hotfoil print (Metallic)

A type of relief printing, similar to letterpress, but this method uses foil, which is perfect for metallic colors and for printing on darker papers as foils are also available in white. The foil is completely covering and the paper colour is not visible underneath. Our Hotfoil prints are made on our Heidelberg Stellas from the 1950ies with a modern add-on for metallic foils, printing each sheet one by one.

Digital print
(Flatprint)

In addition to our Letterpress- & Hotfoil printing we offer digitally printed envelopes with your guest addresses or Day of Wedding print products. In this type of printing a flat colour application is printed onto the paper. We are producing all our digital prints in collaboration with a local printer to best match colours from our prints to the digital print. As printing colours are not completely covering in digital print we only print on light to medium coloured envelopes. The print colour has to be darker than the envelope colour. We cannot print digitally on navy, burgundy and ebony coloured envelopes. For these envelopes we suggest to use calligraphy with metallic inks that work really well on dark envelope colours. Please send us an Email with your quantity and we can give you a precise quote.

Paper options

Cotton stock
Available in ivory white in 3 weights, 350, 500 and 700 grams. Soft, fluffy paper from France with a smooth surface with delicate structure.

Premium colored papers
Soft premium colored paper from England with a smooth surface and delicate structure, available in 350, 540 and 700 grams. Match it with our colored envelopes from the same manufacturer for a perfect tone-in-tone combination.

Handmade cotton papers
Soft paper, handmade in Austria with a delicate surface structure. Available in creamy white (colors available upon request). Each sheet is handcrafted piece by piece and comes with deckled edges. Being a handmade paper, these sheets can vary in size, shape and paper weight, this is to be considered a characteristic of a artisan product.

handmade cotton papers with deckled edges

envelope colours

We have ivory and coloured envelopes to combine with our print products. All envelopes have a deep backflap, peel and seal closure
and a light “Carissimo Letterpress” logo emboss on the backside.

Print colours LETTERPRESS

We offer a selection of beautiful printing colors. Choose your favorite to to personalise your design with.

font styles

We offer different calligraphy font styles you can choose from. For text fonts we offer a Serif font (classic) and a Sansserif font (modern) that will be used as text fonts for our designs.