Anatomy of The Modern Invite by New York Luxury Wedding Invitation designer Lela New York

With wedding invitations containing enclosures, reception cards, outer envelopes, inner envelopes, accommodation cards, and so much more, what should a bride choose for her modern invitation sets? Well here is Lela New York Invitation and Stationery Studio to the rescue with your guide to help you choose what is right for you. All Luxury Invitations shown are designed by Lela New York.


The Invite: This is the formal invitation to your big day! It should include the host the bride and groom, location, date, time and dress attire.

Belly Band: This is the paper detail that wraps around your invitation and other enclosures and holds everything neatly in place.

The Outer Envelope & Inner Envelope: This envelope holds your invitation and other enclosures. It has the bride's or host's return address printed on the flap. You now, may also have a more modern mailer box as well. Now a days, most brides do not use an inner envelope. Instead they choose a more modern approach and choose a decorative envelope, fabric book, box or other fabric envelope to hold their invitations.

The Reception Card: Use this card when your ceremony location is different than your reception. This card invites your guests to your reception.

Response Card or RSVP: This is the card your guests will send back with their reply. RSVP is a french abbreviation for Répondez si'l vous plaît. Which means, Please Reply.

The Response Card Envelope: This envelope has the bride or host's printed address in the front. It is where your guest's place the RSVP to mail back to you with their reply.

Other enclosures: Direction Cards, Accommodation Cards, Maps, and Itinerary Cards. These cards depend on your wedding situation. Are you having a destination wedding? If yes, it is highly recommended to use an accommodation card where you list your local hotels where your guests can stay.

Calligraphy: This is your guest's addresses. They are printed on the front of the outer envelope or in some cases your outer mailer box.

Couture wedding invitations @ Scully & Scully

The Wedding Salon asked Lela New York to give advise on couture wedding invitations and insider advise as an expert to new brides and couples at Scully and Scully. It was their mini-bootcamp!

Lela New York had a great and fun evening! Here are some pictures sent to us by Jamie & Jason from Jamie K Photography who also showcased their amazing work!
Thank You for all who participated.

AND

I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!

Best,

Maria

Wedding Invitations- Styles and Shapes

Dear Readers,

I am always asked "how can I make my invitations special, different, and stylish?"
Well Lela New York offers a variety of luxury and unique wedding invitations. Lela New York can custom design your wedding invitations shape and style to fit your wedding. I always suggest bringing any pictures of a brides wedding decor or her wedding dress, flowers and brides maids dresses for inspiration. All of these can be incorporated in a couture wedding invitation designed exclusively for you.

Lela New York also offers a unique wedding invitations style and shape menu where you can choose from an already designed invitation shape and have Lela New York design custom graphics and logos to go with your wedding theme and colors. It is a great jumping off point for your custom designed wedding invitations. From silk box invitations to classic shapes and designs, there is something for everybody. Lela New York will also be happy to finish your couture suite by designing stationery including your menus, programs, table cards, and thank you notes. These little extras will give a coordinating cohesive look to your wedding decor and theme and will be sure to leave a lasting impression.

To read more about Lela New York visit us here.

Inspiration Board- before

You all keep asking so here it is.
The inspiration board that I created for the "Pretty in Pink" invitations.

Lela New York creates an inspiration board as a way to brain storm ideas to design a clients custom wedding invitations. From here we can pick and choose elements that we want to use in the design of the weeding invitation.
This particular wedding was in New York and we used the bride's beautiful couture wedding dress by Pnina Tornai for the inspiration of the graphics on the invitation.
I hand drew the lace detail that was printed on the custom invitation in silver and pink.
I loved the finish piece and Sky did too!

I hope you enjoy!

5 Steps to a Couture Invitation

I wanted to share with all of you some steps I consider when designing a couture invitation.

1. Always consult an expert.
An expert will help take your ideas and elements you would like to incorporate and turn them into reality. At Lela New York we offer a free consultation where we sit down with our brides for a one on one. We will generally ask her to have any fabrics, colors, or photographs they may want to include or use as inspiration present for our consultation. It helps to have a theme, it can be simple like a winter wonderland or you can choose to incorporate where you met or base your theme on a favorite poem. The best thing about having a couture designer is that every detail is custom and truly one-of-a-kind.

2. Think about color.
Color is important to create mood. It can reflect your theme, your brides made dresses, or your favorite colors. Your designer will help pick the perfect color to reflect your style and event. From green and crisp, cool in turq, classic in white, to hot and red express yourself in color!

3. Paper and boxes.
There is still the classic white and ecru cotton paper which can be very beautiful alone or embellished with warm elements such as flowers or ribbons. You now also have much more of a variety of papers to choose from. Choose from beautiful colored cotton papers to printed antique papers from Italy to Japan. Today we also have the option to box your invitation for that extra wow factor. Lela New York offers beautiful hand-made silk boxes in 100 colors to choose from. Have your designer show you the different options that suite you.

4. Print Method.
Choose from the now popular letterpress, or other classics such as engraving, offset printing (flat printing), blind embossing ( which is an impression without ink), and foil stamping (metallic foils that leave an impression as well).

5. Embellishments.
Make the finishing touches by choosing the right embellishments for your invitation. There are ribbons, Swarovski crystals, Japanese tissue papers, you can tie it, wrap it, choose custom artwork and more! But most of all have fun, this is your time to shine!