At Royal Steamline, you’ll find original, customizable wedding invitations from a time that never was. Their designs are not for the traditional at heart, but are music to the ears of offbeat brides everywhere searching for alternative invites. Their designs blend a variety of influences that include dark, clockwork, and fin de siècle elements. They infuse a subtle (and sometimes anachronistic) combination of shadows, textures and vintage illustrations to convey a sense of eras strange and forgotten. Sea monsters mingle next to robotic ravens, and gentlemen scientists have tea with rockabilly rebels.
Aerin and Jeremy, a husband-and-wife design team in Portland, works with brides and grooms to create invitations from scratch, as well as offer a line of readymade, customizable invitations a range of themes including Steampunk, Victorian Gothic, and Retro. With package names such as EdisonGram, Two-Ring Circus, the Tappan Sea and Six-Toed Cat, the invitations are wonderfully far outside of the normal wedding invitation styles. Their templates are inspired by a wide variety of design details such as Duesenberg Model SJ, sideshow posters, an Ozark Hootenanny, Edwardian accents, Bauhaus-era fonts and Sailor Jerry tattoos.
I know firsthand how time-consuming it can be to create custom invitations with deckled edges and rounded corners. For instance, my husband and I had an ancient Celtic wedding, so I spent many hours illustrating and designing our wedding invitation to look like a frame from the illuminated manuscript of the Book of Kells. Getting the right printer, paper and print settings are paramount to creating the right look for a vintage, non-traditional wedding. After spending many weeks on my own, I find the pricing at Royal Steamline to be quite reasonable. In fact, I don’t understand how they can offer such prices for a creating what is essentially an original work of art!
If you’re looking to create your own unique wedding invitations, contact the Royal Steamline Captain first!
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