Send us the file you already have
Your designer's PDF, the Canva file your sister built, a photograph of someone else's suite you'd like in your own names and colours — all of it is welcome here, because a custom invitation printer quotes against the artwork you bring rather than a list you choose from. Files often arrive needing a little care before they're ready for the press: the fonts a size too small, the sizing wrong for the sheet, the resolution set for a screen. One of our designers tidies that, and the corrected version comes back to you to approve before anything runs. Your lettering, your florals and your spacing reach the press, only now sized for the card.
Local print shops for wedding invitations tend to charge for that pre-press. Here it is complimentary, in whatever language the wording arrives, and it covers every other piece of wedding stationery you order. Some files come headed marriage invitation rather than wedding, others are set in Arabic or run in two languages at once, and in every case you supply the wording and we set it — anything in a second script is proofed twice; your family reads exactly what you sent.
Why a screen can't show you paper
Real foil is metal, heat-pressed into the paper; an embossed monogram is the sheet itself, raised from the reverse. Even the best online preview is light where the card is metal, and a simulated shimmer sent to a digital run lands as flat ink. The other half is the paper: the print shop wedding invitations end up at is, as often as not, a commercial printer, and its stock is coated for brochures, and the card returns semi-gloss, a little lifeless in the hand, however beautiful the file.
Pick up the sample when it arrives and the weight is what you notice first. The surface is smooth but drags a little under your thumb, and when you tilt a foiled card toward the kitchen light the metal brightens and dims with your wrist. Run a finger along a letterpressed line and the lettering sits below the surface, where you can feel it. That shelf is, above all, what separates invitation printers from a commercial press. Australia's fine-art range is small. Ours is held here in Brunswick — 300 gsm Italian ivory, uncoated and raw, with sixty-plus colours and materials beside it — and what you're holding is what your guests will open.
How you judge your foil before its plate exists
Foil, letterpress and embossing are the three effects a wedding invitations printer can't sample in your artwork, because a plate has to be made for your names before the first sheet is pressed. So the pack holds two answers side by side: your own layout with the effect drawn in shadow, so you can see where the foil will sit on your paper, and real foiled, embossed and letterpressed cards from other weddings, enough to feel what that shading stands for. A three-dimensional render of your wording is there too, if you'd like it.
Lay the letterpress beside the foil and the conversation with your fiancé is about two cards passed back and forth, and no one hurrying you. Wedding invitation card printing done in this order means the proof is a printed piece in your hand, and what follows comes off the same presses.
The wedding stationery printers other Melbourne studios send their work to
For thirteen years we have been the local wedding invitation printers at 476 Sydney Road, Brunswick, with the studio, the designers and the presses under one roof. Around Melbourne a studio that draws a suite will usually send the pressing out, and local designers and agencies bring theirs to us, to sell under their own name. Coming straight to the printer for wedding invitations that other studios rely on means the person who sets your foil is who picks up when you call. Couples from across the city come to the showroom.
Every finish runs here — foil, embossing, debossing, letterpress, digital colour and precision laser cutting, twenty-plus techniques on our own Heidelberg presses and the equipment beside them, where most local printers for invitations offer one or two. A foiled name with an embossed floral beneath it is two passes on the same floor and one date for you to plan around. A ready-made or flat printed suite is five business days of press work; letterpress, embossing and foil take ten to twelve, and because every hand your invitation passes through works at this address, the date you're given is one we keep ourselves.
Your quote, itemised, and what's already included
A custom quote is drawn against your artwork, itemised first, every card priced on its own line, and then as two or three packages built from that list. One package discount covers the RSVP and details inserts, the save the dates and the day-of pieces: place cards, menus, table numbers. That makes the printers for wedding stationery on the day the same studio that holds the plate with your names on it, so the lettering on your invitation reappears, identical, on your menu. And we'll beat any competitor's quote.
Flat invitation printing from $2 each, foil from $2, embossing from $2.80 and letterpress from $2.95, every figure per card. The love them or leave them guarantee covers each of them, and if the finished suite falls short of the sample you held, our craftsmen rework it until it's right.
The pack is free, postage included, and the paper reaches you before anything else does. You decide at your own table, holding it. Brides and grooms have left 300+ five-star reviews for the suites that followed.
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