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Printed wedding invitation suites from Bliss & Bone are custom-printed sets of invitations, reply cards, inserts, and envelopes designed together in one collection. Choose letterpress, metallic foil, or flat printing for each piece and see real-time pricing in the builder; a dedicated designer finalizes every detail before anything goes to press.
A wedding invitation suite starts with the invitation card and adds only the pieces your guests need to send a reply and arrive at the right place.
In the Bliss & Bone builder, you choose the design first and add matching inserts after. A designer then personalizes the wording on every card to fit your wedding.
The working core of a printed suite is four pieces. The invitation names the hosts, the couple, the date, and the place. A reply card travels with its own pre-addressed return envelope. A details insert carries reception and hotel information that would crowd the invitation. The outer envelope can carry printed return and guest addresses, which saves an evening of hand-addressing.
Anything past those four is optional. A suite for a courthouse ceremony and dinner can be a single card, while a destination weekend can justify an itinerary insert. For a card-by-card guide to wording and the order each piece stacks in the envelope, read what's included in a wedding invitation suite.
Flat printing is the least expensive way to print a suite and the only method that prints many colors at once. Letterpress and metallic foil press into the paper and need a plate or die for each color, which is why they start higher.
For 25 A7 (5 x 7) 1-ply invitations, the Bliss & Bone builder starts flat print at $257.50 with unlimited colors, letterpress at $527.50 for one color, and metallic foil at $655.00 for one color. The total updates as you add pieces and upgrade paper.
Flat print. More than 90 ink colors, printed in a single pass with a matte, flat finish and no impression. It is the natural choice for reply cards and inserts.
Letterpress. 96 ink colors, with one plate for each color, pressed into the paper on the main invitation card. Letterpress inks are slightly translucent, so choose an ink darker than the paper.
Metallic foil. 12 foil colors, heat-stamped and pressed into the paper. Foil is highly reflective and its legibility shifts as the card tilts in the hand, which is why it works best on names and monograms rather than full blocks of text.
Letterpress runs on antique presses, so small variations between cards in a letterpress wedding invitation suite are part of the finish rather than a defect. Blind deboss uses no ink at all and relies on the shadow of the impression for legibility, while clear varnish adds only a slight matte tint. Blind embossing works the other way: it raises the paper toward the reader and reads best on light stock. On flat print, a knockout setting leaves the paper showing through for white type on dark or full-coverage designs. Designs built around the press impression live in letterpress wedding invitations.
All three techniques handle QR codes, which surprises couples who assume a debossed or metallic code won't scan. Our production house will letterpress or foil stamp one down to five-eighths of an inch. The guide to QR codes on wedding invitations covers sizing, placement, and what to link it to.
Spend on the main invitation and save on everything tucked behind it.
Guests handle the invitation first and keep it longest, while the inserts behind it get read once and set aside. Pairing a letterpress or foil invitation with flat-printed reply cards and inserts is standard practice at Bliss & Bone, and so is printing the main card on 2-ply paper while the inserts stay on 1-ply.
On letterpress or foil, hold to one process and one ink color, since every added color means another plate and another press pass. Envelopes have their own rules. Flat print the return address on the outer and reply envelopes, and choose a lighter envelope color, because flat print cannot go onto dark stock such as black or navy. Envelope liners are the easiest piece to cut, and if you keep them, a square-flap envelope takes less liner than a euro flap. The wedding invitation envelopes guide covers flap styles and liners in more depth.
The biggest single cut is the reply card. Replace the reply card and its envelope with a line pointing guests to your wedding website, and RSVPs arrive in an online tracker instead of the mailbox, with no return postage to buy. Sending online save the dates frees up more of the budget for paper. For per-card pricing on every print method, from flat print to engraving, see the wedding invitation cost guide.
Every Bliss & Bone suite starts semi-custom and can go fully custom. The builder handles design and print choices with live pricing, and after purchase a dedicated designer takes over.
Each order includes two rounds of design proofs, delivered as digital PDFs that show every piece in the suite. Bliss & Bone does not send physical printed proofs; the paper sample pack is the way to judge paper and print in hand.
Small changes go in the Notes to Designer field at checkout. Pairing two fonts that aren't matched in the builder costs nothing, and many prints can take a color change or slight modification at no charge, while highly detailed prints may need more time and a quote. Pieces outside the standard builder, including tags, booklets, folded cards, grommets, ribbon or leather lacing, vellum, and gilded edges, go through Design Your Own Plus, billed at $200 an hour for design with production quoted separately. Schedule a design consult at any point if you would rather talk through the suite before building it.
Paper decides how a suite feels before anyone reads a word. Bliss & Bone prints on cotton paper and standard cardstock, in 1-ply or a heavier 2-ply duplex. Whites come in two shades, bright and pearl. Cotton has a soft, matte surface that takes letterpress and flat printing equally well and survives handling. Edge painting comes in any letterpress color and shows best on 2-ply, where the edge is thick enough to see.
Blind embossing adds a raised monogram or border with no ink, and envelope liners put color or pattern inside the flap.
Order a paper sample pack before committing. For $15 in the US ($40 internationally), the studio hand-picks 6 to 8 cards showing 1-ply against 2-ply and each print technique in person, packed and shipped on Fridays by priority mail. For more on weights and stocks, read choosing wedding invitation paper.
Every printed design belongs to a collection, so the style you choose carries through the whole suite.
Classic and simple. Clean typography and generous white space, with no ornament competing with the names. Browse classic wedding invitations and simple wedding invitations.
Minimalist and black-and-white. Pared-back layouts where the type does the work, often in a single ink. Black-and-white designs translate well to letterpress, where the impression supplies the texture that color otherwise would. See minimalist wedding invitations and black and white wedding invitations.
Formal and luxury. Serif typography on symmetrical layouts, finished in letterpress or foil on 2-ply cotton for a black-tie evening. Compare formal wedding invitations with luxury wedding invitations.
Floral and botanical. Illustrated foliage and hand-drawn motifs for garden ceremonies and outdoor receptions, where the invitation should feel like part of the setting. Browse floral wedding invitations and botanical wedding invitations.
Rustic and boho. Earthy palettes and relaxed layouts for barn and vineyard venues. See rustic wedding invitations and boho wedding invitations.
Destination and tropical. Illustrated scenery and warm tones that show guests the setting before they book a flight, paired with a travel-details insert. See destination wedding invitations and tropical wedding invitations.
The wedding invitation style library puts every style side by side.
Order a printed wedding invitation suite four to five months before the wedding. On standard service, the first PDF proof arrives within 3 business days, and production runs 10 to 12 business days after you approve the final proof, with each revision adding 1 business day. Invitations then mail 6 to 8 weeks before the wedding.
Two faster tiers are available at checkout. Rush cuts production to 8 to 10 business days for a 25% upcharge, and Lightning prints in 7 business days for a 50% upcharge. Domestic orders ship by FedEx. The full schedule lives in the printed invitations process guide.
Order 5 to 10 more invitations than the number of households on your list. The extras go to keepsakes and to the photographer's flat lay. Leftover envelopes beyond your address list are printed with the return address only. For wording conventions on the outer envelope, see addressing wedding invitation envelopes, and for send dates by wedding type, read when to send wedding invitations.
Each Bliss & Bone design is built as a collection, so the printed suite and the wedding website share one design down to the fonts and artwork. One collection extends the invitation into a full wedding stationery suite: printed save the dates, rehearsal dinner invitations, wedding menus, and the matching website.
Mixed guest lists are where this pays off. Send paper to the guests who will keep it and matching online wedding invitations to everyone else, and the suite still reads as one design across both formats. A QR code on the details card carries guests from the printed card straight to the website RSVP.
Flat-printed suites start lowest at Bliss & Bone: 25 A7 invitations begin at $257.50. Letterpress and metallic foil start at $527.50 and $655.00 respectively for 25 one-color cards. Reply cards, inserts, envelopes, liners, and finishes each add to that base, and the builder shows the running total as you add them.
A wedding invitation is the single main card announcing the ceremony. A wedding invitation suite is that card plus the coordinated pieces mailed with it, such as the reply card and details insert. At Bliss & Bone, every piece in a suite is printed from the same design so the set matches.
Bliss & Bone handles design and wedding invitation printing in one online order. You build the design in the browser and a dedicated designer finalizes it before the production house prints the suite and ships it by FedEx. A local print shop can also print invitations, but it expects a finished, print-ready file.
No. A line on the details card pointing guests to your wedding website RSVP replaces the reply card and its return envelope, and it removes return postage from the budget. Guest lists that include people who rarely go online may still warrant paper reply cards for those households.
Yes, as digital proofs. Every order includes two rounds of PDF proofs showing each piece in the suite, and nothing prints until you approve it. Bliss & Bone does not send physical proofs, so order the $15 paper sample pack to judge paper weight and print techniques in hand.
Order 5 to 10 more invitations than the number of households on your guest list. The extras cover keepsakes and the photographer's flat lay. Leftover envelopes are printed with the return address only.
Pick a design and add the pieces your guests need; a designer checks every card before anything prints. Browse wedding invitation suites by collection to see each design in print and on screen.