DIY-ish invites part deux... press check

Things are all coming together, people! I can assure those who are still far enough away from their wedding that they aren't in unquestionable panic mode at all times that when you're in the thick of it, just keep plugging away and things actually do get checked off your list.

Like my highly anticipated press check at letterpressers extraordinaire, Aardvark! I of course chose the hottest day of the summer to drive downtown, to an unairconditioned 1920's building, in my unairconditioned black-leather-interiored car, to sweat out each test print of our invites alongside the our printers. It was so worth it! Though by the time I got back to my office in beautifully breezy Santa Monica, my clothes were so sweaty I had to change into my running gear for the rest of the day. Which, truth be told, I sometimes wear to work anyway.


Our plates lined up and a test print sitting on the Heidelberg.



Blind emboss for the background of our main invite and pretty cans of ink.



First print of the finished invite.


We are frickin' exhausted. But our invites are packaged, the envelopes are stuffed, and now we just need to finish arranging and licking our lovely vintage stamps.

Part 3: the final product coming tomorrow. And I must remember to do another post on Aardvark... their space is so neat and they did a most excellent job.