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Heather Cranston of Harry Canary is the designer behind this Rock ‘n’ Roll Pirate inspired wedding invitation. I stumbled across it while browsing the latest issue of HOW Magazine. Her invitation was chosen as a Merit winner in the HOW Promotion Design Awards. Love to see invitation designs recognized!

Heather created this super chic invite for some special friends. She prefers to work with friends and family because she can really have some fun with incorporating the couples personality.

She works in fashion, he is in a band. They told me they were having a Rock’n’Roll Pirate themed wedding but didn’t know what that meant, and that they wanted skulls. So, naturally, when the bride says skulls, the bride gets skulls! The whole thing together has an on the road, backstage pass, playbill feel. There is no blank folder here, every part has a purpose. Each piece is like a little ephemeral token picked up along a road trip and folded into one package.

The detail in this invitation is outstanding. I am obsessed with the black on black print, and the skulls! I really love the unique fold of the invite and it serves a double purpose as the location map including points of interest.

Invitation was letterpressed by Everlovin’ Press .

It’s a wet and gloomy day in Edmonton so let’s brighten it up with a super fun chevron invitation by Janine Rae Design for her own wedding. I love the bold colour choices and the overall simplicity of the suite. She used a fabric pocket to hold all of the pieces together and incorporated an illustration of their dog to add that personal touch. Love!

Craig and I adopted our sweet dog, Abbey, while dating and she has certainly become an important part of our relationship. When thinking about the design for our wedding invitation I knew I wanted to have fun and also make the design deeply personal to us. The silhouette of Abbey with her collar flower pulled all of our paper goods together and represented our support of the local SPCA with a donation in lieu of favors at the wedding.

The wedding invitations were letterpressed, as well as the ampersand tags (which were later sewn to the fabric pockets) and the reply cards. Janine sewed each fabric pocket from the same fabric used as table runners at our reception and tucked all the enclosure cards inside for mailing. Yellow striped envelope liners matched the design printed on the back of the invitations and thank you notes.

Not into neutrals? Check out these awesome hot pink wedding invitations! Ashley (the bride) wanted her wedding invitations to reflect both her love of paper  and her modern, chic wedding style. What Ashley said:

I wanted our invitations to be really unique and really us. I love paper, typography, letterpress, and everything that goes along with it. I wanted to set a tone through the paper that we could carry throughout the rest of the wedding plans: sophisticated, chic, modern, and clean. Our wedding will take place in an art gallery in DC, and our tables will be Pantone colors instead of numbers – hence my interest in getting very specific ink colors.

The blind impression pattern is inspired by the embellishment on my wedding dress. I was using a font for the calligraphy at first, but then I took a calligraphy class from Michele Fritz of Meant to be Calligraphy here in DC, and she convinced me to replace that font with my own writing.

When it came time to print the invitation suite, the design was letterpressed on 236# Savoy Bright white paper with neon pink edge painting. The design features a blind impression pattern inspired by the texture on Ashley’s wedding dress and pops of neon pink.

Designed and calligraphy by the bride (Ashley) and printed by Darling Press .