THE EDITOR

noun, a person who checks and corrects texts before they are published,
or a person who collects pieces of writing by different authors and prepares them for publication.
from the Latin verb edere, meaning to produce or put out.

Inspired by editorial design and pull-out quotes, The Editor pulls out all the beautiful and salient details to highlight in large tightly-packed blocks, and then repeats the finer print in the margins or as mini footnotes that also serve to anchor and frame the design. More than any of our other collections, The Editor truly knows that less is more, that everyone understands “4PM", and those willing to read fine print, or those beholden to tradition, can still find “four o’clock in the afternoon,” spelled out, just smaller, and later. She is playful and clever, knows how to grab attention, and how to sustain it.

Combining a tall slim uppercase serif with a short lowercase sans, this collection intertwines old and new, masculine and feminine, boldness and subtlety, to create a look that is quite literally timeless. Like all great editors, it brings together ideas from multiple sources and eras, tying them all up to offer a refreshing new take on the well-known and well-covered subject of wedding stationery.

The Editor was designed in the early months of the pandemic in 2020, when there was little more than the sound of birds chirping in the countryside - an idyllic and utopian serenity in which great writers and editors are romantically imagined, or fortunate enough, to work. Hopefully, the deliberation afforded by all that silence and space is manifest.

An angled view of an elegant envelope and a wedding invitation. The invitation features uppercase letterpress text and intricate gold details.

Collection aesthetic | Sophisticated and timeless
Defining design elements | Square invitation, striking blocks of uppercase text, typographic contrast, tiny details and notes in the margins.

Quick Links:

Invitation Suites
Save the Dates
Day of Stationery
Wedding Website
Our Style Notes
Moodboard
More Inspiration

INVITATIONS

Format | Ceremony Invitation 175x175mm (approx. 7x7in), various formats for additional inserts
Paper | Ivory, Cool Grey, or Black 710gsm (other colors available but may require a longer lead time).
Print | Letterpress and blind debossing, with optional foil-stamped accents
Envelope | Luxurious heavyweight envelopes with twill (ribbed) texture, available in five colors - ivory, nude, light grey, charcoal grey, and black
Design & Print Customization | Option to change paper and ink colors, add vellum overlays with quotes, lyrics, illustrations, or patterns.
Inserts available | Rehearsal Dinner and Brunch invitations, RSVP cards and envelopes, Weekend Details, Itineraries, Website URL inserts for online RSVPs.

An angled view of a square ceremony invitation with blind debossing and letterpress in a unique flowing layout in the center.

A bird's eye view of a letterpress wedding invitation, an envelope with intricate golden details and sheet of vellum paper with timeless serif typography.

An bird's eye view of an RSVP card with a blind debossed Italian heading, gold letterpress text and clean lines. The card is on top of an envelope.

An angled close-up of two letterpress invitation inserts printed on black paper with blind debossing and matte silver foil.

An angled view of a square wedding invitation with blind debossing and letterpress, an RSVP card in cool blue, a beige RSVP envelope, and a light grey outer envelope.

A close up view of a timeless wedding invitation with large uppercase black letterpress text, and intricate gold details along the sides.

An angled view of a modern RSVP card showcasing clean lines, minimalist design and subtle accents.

Contemporary bilingual wedding invite with clean lines and classic appeal, captured at an angled view.

Sleek weekend itinerary highlighting sophisticated design elements, clean lines and blind embossing.

Bird's eye view of a square wedding invitation with blind debossed uppercase text, and smaller details letterpress printed in crimson red ink.

The reverse side of an RSVP card requesting guest's to mention a favorite song that might get them on the dance floor.

Bird's eye view of a monochrome wedding invitation suite with soft neutral paper tones, blind debossing, gold foil stamping, and vellum.

A close-up shot of a modern RSVP card with timeless charm, intricate design details and gold letterpress text.

A bird's eye view of an RSVP card for a destination wedding with a tiny gold palm tree printed on the envelope flap between the couple's initials.

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The past is always tense.

The future, perfect.

Zadie Smith

SAVE THE DATES

Format | 130x180mm (approx. 5x7in)
Paper | Ivory, Cool Grey, or Black 710gsm
Print | Letterpress
Envelope | Luxurious heavyweight envelopes with twill (ribbed) texture, available in five colors - ivory, nude, light grey, charcoal grey, and black
Design & Print Customization | Option to change paper and ink colors, add vellum overlays with quotes, lyrics, illustrations, or patterns.

Angled shot of a grey Save the Date, ivory envelope, and small dried flowers. The Save the Date is printed in classic black letterpress ink and there is a lot of white space.

A close-up of a stack of modern save the date cards showing the words "Save the Date" repeated in small sans-serif type in the top margin of each card.

A close-up angled shot of roughly stacked Save the Dates revealing the wedding location SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS repeated in the side margins on each card.

Angled view of a timeless Save the Date letterpress printed in black ink on a cool grey lightly textured paper. The main text is set in large serif type, with some details expanded or repeated in the margins as small accents or footnotes.

She feels in italics,

and thinks in capitals.

Henry James

DAY OF STATIONERY

Elements | Reception and rehearsal dinner menus, bar and cocktail menus, ceremony programs or weekend itineraries, seating charts and way-finding signage, welcome letters, thank you cards.
Format | Wide variety of formats, papers, and print techniques available.

Rough stack of stylish wedding stationery including reception menus on vellum, rehearsal dinner menus with vertical headings, and folded weekend itineraries.

Bird's eye view of a stack of letterpress wedding menus. The courses are laid out in four columns across the bottom of each menu.

Angled bird's eye view of a large wedding weekend itinerary that folds into four to fit neatly in a suit pocket or clutch. Elegant typography and a lot of white space.

Angled view of three wedding reception menus printed on transparent vellum in black ink. The top of each menu has the guest name, in lieu of separate place cards to show guests their seat.

Elegant brown menu with text printed in lowercase on the right hand side.. A shadow is cast upon part of the menu.

Angled view of a stack of wedding reception menus printed on transparent vellum paper. The menu text shows three options for the main course including a fish, meat, and vegetarian option.

A thank you card with the couple's initials blind debossed in a stack on the left, and their names in gold in between. The card is on an envelope and a fine ribbon appears in the corner.

Angled view of a long ivory wedding menu with the courses laid out in four small columns close to the bottom of the page. The text is all in lowercase.

An elegant ceremony program booklet seen from above. SARAH&JOSHUA is blind debossed in the middle of the textured white cover.

Close-up shot of a chic rehearsal dinner menu with vertical headings along the left side. Partially overlaid with vellum and photographed from an artistic perspective.

Angled close-up view of a hand flicking through a wedding ceremony booklet. The names of the wedding party are printed on vellum paper forming the etheral final page of the booklet.

Angled bird's eye view of an elegant folded menu with a grey cover and inner page held together by a slim black elastic. The menu items are typeset in elegant typography on the right hand side.

Close-up of the back cover of a letterpress ceremony program booklet with a quote in uppercase that reads NOTHING THAT WE DO THAT IS WORTHWHILE IS DONE ALONE.

Bird's eye view of a hand holding a transparent vellum wedding menu with the guest name at the top of the page. A black surface and white book can be seen hazily through the vellum.

A transparent vellum overlay for a reception menu with a custom designed monogram of two Ms and the guest name printed below - as an alternative to a separate smaller place card.

Angled view of a folded menu with a cover and inner page held together by a black elastic. Lyrics from a song selected by the couple are printed on the inside left-hand corner.

Our day of stationery pieces tend to be a little more customized as we work closely with you and your planners, designers and stylists to tailor layouts and formats to your event concept and venue styling. Ceremony programs can range from a short sweet post-card to a hand-stitched booklet, welcome letters can sometimes be handwritten, and seating charts can be acrylic decals applied to a large vintage mirror, printed on billowy linen fabric, applied to a rack of wine bottles or whatever else you have in mind. We usually provide rough estimates for these elements and then talk through your ideas in more detail closer to the wedding date. We have to add that you don’t necessarily have to stick to the same collection all the way through to your wedding day…so feel free to explore our other collections and bring some new tricks to the party.

See more Day of Stationery here >

THE EDITOR WEBSITE

In the year of our tenth anniversary, we are proud to finally introduce custom wedding websites and bring Love on Paper to internet land. Available in the style of each of our stationery collections, our websites feature sophisticated typographic layouts in our signature styles to match your save the dates, invitation suites and day-of paper goods. Our comprehensive, sophisticated and personalized design service aims to keep things as easy and breezy as possible for you, whilst ensuring that your correspondence with your guests is aesthetically consistent and highly intentional throughout your planning process.

Ideally, you’ll have had or arranged for a professional engagement shoot to provide us with high resolution image content to use on the site, but if you don’t have any or prefer not to use photographs, we have developed beautiful typographic layouts where the letterforms and colors can do the talking. We also have a library of beautiful stock imagery and AI-created artwork, including photographs, graphics, and patterns we can creatively use as design elements in lieu of more traditional smiley, hand-holding portraits. As with our printed stationery design process, our service includes guidance on wording and creative writing to ensure your written content is clear and concise, visually striking, and sets the right tone for your celebration, whether you’re keeping things light and modern, or more reserved and traditional.

An open Macbook laptop showing the home page of a wedding website. The home page is filled with a dramatic photograph of the couple in white suits embracing in a field of yellow wildflowers with the mountains behind them in the distance. — *Photograph on website by Flora Gibson.*

The service & design fee includes:
Domain registration & hosting (one year) | Template & color palette customization | Guidance on wording & creative writing | Content updates leading up to the celebration | RSVP Responses in a Google Spreadsheet

When enquiring, please provide as much detail as possible on the content sections and functionality you’ll need, as well as what you have in terms of image content (photographs of you and/or the venue) that you’d like to use.

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Our Style Notes

The venue A minimal Italian palazzo | The season Spring and summer | The palette Monochromatic with subtly romantic hues
Designers Gabriela Hearst, Tom Ford | Looks Elegant, tailored silhouettes with striking details
Must-have accessory The Lilith Evening Bag in White, from Khaite.
Cute ceremony idea A large order of service printed on linen instead of individual programs for each guest.
The honeymoon Stockholm or Copenhagen.

The quote:
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence.

— Adrienne Rich

The love letter:

Morgan [E. M. Forster] says he’s worked it out and one spends 3 hours on food, 6 on sleep, 4 on work, 2 on love.
Lytton [Strachey] says 10 on love. I say the whole day on love.

— Virginia Woolf, to Vita Sackville-West

A moodboard of 9 photographs showing stationery, fashion, interior, and table styling inspiration for a stylish, timeless wedding, in soft neutral tones. — Image Credits: Moby Dick cover from Pinterest, unknown | Katharine Hepburn by Alfred Eisenstaedt | Table styling by The Romance Crew, photography by Megan Kelly | Dress and men’s style from Pinterest, unknown | Interior scene - design Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen, styling by Charlotte Skytte Daugbjerg, photography by Sofie Staunsager | All stationery by The Letterist

ADDITIONAL LINKS & inspiration

On The Journal

See a French-Chateau-inspired wedding in Australia that landed in VOGUE.

For more about the pros and cons of square wedding invitations, such as those in The Editor, read our square wedding invitations blog.

In the Press
See an autumnal upstate New York wedding featured in BRIDES, with the coolest custom seating chart ever.

On Pinterest

See our pins for The Editor collection including fashion, florals, desserts, and more.

On Instagram

Watch a reel of booklet ceremony programs we created for S&J to guide guests through their traditional Jewish wedding ceremony.

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Please note that some of these images are digital renders and some are photographs of print samples - they do not always reflect the full range of paper textures, colors and print techniques available. We will share more options with you during the customization process and can mail you selected print samples upon request.