The humble wedding invitation has come a long way over the centuries...
The original Town Criers would sing out details of forthcoming marriages as part of their daily news, inviting everybody within earshot to the celebrations – could you imaging doing that in this day and age? Later families of wealth or high standing would commission monks to hand write invitations using their wonderfully detailed calligraphy script, each of which would be sealed with wax bearing the family seal or crest, a practice still continued today by some. Such a detailed , high cost process made the sending of invitations out of the reach of the majority of people, this is until the 1940's.
After WW2 the use of printed invitations became regarded as 'proper or polite etiquette', and to hold a ceremony without first issuing the appropriate stationary was unthinkable.
To recapture some of this traditional formality and original style we have a range of traditional invitations to suit all budgets, for example the traditional 'Special Scroll' invitation for the romance conscious or the 'To Have & To Hold' invitation reflecting classic style.
However you choose to announce your big day, we guarantee we have the stationary you need to say it with style.
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