Wedding Stationery with a difference
If you want something different for your big day, Alice Palace offers an original range of illustrations which can be personalised to create exclusive wedding invites. The available design concepts are fresh and interesting.
Alice Palace designs are inspired by thoughts and feelings, people and everyday life. They combine drawings, and words with collages, using materials to create texture and visual interest. The Alice Palace personalised wedding stationery designs are second to none. You can either incorporate your ideas into an existing design, or invites can be totally unique and personal to create the perfect stationery to reflect your special day.
The existing designs measure 178mm x 114mm and come with a 100% recycled white envelope – but design sizes and envelope colours can be altered to suit your requirements. All Alice Palace artwork can be designed to include co-ordinating save the date cards, invitations, rsvp’s, acceptance cards, thank you notes and place settings.
Below are examples of wedding stationery projects (to give you ideas), including some feedback from the happy couples!
Katie and Matt were the first couple to use the Smiling widely design and it worked really well.
This is the inside of their invite:
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For Victoria & Andy I did a day invite - with an insert, an evening invite postcard, an order of service, place names and a table plan.
‘ I am getting married on 9th of August next year. I’ve been looking at Wedding stationery for ages and can’t find anything I like at all. That is until yesterday… I was in a shop and spotted some of your greetings cards. They really appeal to me as they’re both funky and original.Anything I’ve seen up until now has been very traditional and bland. I would love if I could get my wedding stationery through you but I was wondering do you do the printing inside and can you offer orders of service that match in some way? ‘ Victoria, 12/10/2007
This is the front of the day invite (it’s a folded card):
This is the inside:
And this is the back:
This is the double sided insert:
‘ The insert looks great! Design is perfect! ‘ Victoria, 15/11/2007
This is their evening invite postcard - front and back:
‘ I just wanted to let you know that my invites went out on Saturday and I’ve been so overwhelmed by compliments about them!! Everyone absolutely loved them and thought they were really unusual! They couldn’t believe we’d sorted it all over email!! Thank you so much I’m so so delighted with how they turned out! ‘ Victoria, 12/06/2008
And this is the front cover of their 8 page Order of Service.
And this is an example of a page inside:
This is their placecard front:
Inside:
And back (like a miniture card):
And their table plan. This was A1 size (594 x 841mm) and had 18 cut outs for them to add in print outs of the finalised guests names for each table:
‘ It looks absolutely brilliant! My Bridesmaids and I have just finished putting the names in and it works really well!! Thank you so much!
Thanks again for everything, your work has been just brilliant! ‘ Victoria, 06/08/2008
They also had thank you postcards:
‘ The cards look totally fab! Mum and Andy both love them! Another brilliant job from Alice Palace!! ‘ Victoria, 26/09/2008
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I did the invites for mine and Mark’s wedding - this is the inside:
And the back of the RSVP postcard....
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For Cameron & Leticia I did 2 versions of their invite: one in English and one in Portugese.
‘ My fiancee and I have seen your lovely cards online and would like to enquire as to whether we are able to personalise (to a certain degree) the design for a wedding invitation. We love the two birds facing eachother and the waves you have in your beach life section but may want to include other elements to reflect the location of our wedding etc. Please can you let us know if this is possible. ‘ Cameron and Leticia, 29/07/2008
This is the English outside and inside - -
‘ Cant believe we finished! I am very content with the invitations. My Mum just looked at them too and also liked very much - Pefect! Well done! ‘ Leticia 02/10/2008
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Sian & Iestyn went for the Smiling widely design as well - although they had English and Welsh translations on both their day invite and their evening invite postcard.
‘The smiling widely card is ace!’ Sian, 11/07/2008
‘ Hi Alice the invites are great. We are very happy with them.’ Sian, 04/09/2008
I also did menus, Orders of service and thank yous for them.
‘Our vicar saw the proof to check the order of service for us and he loved the graphics!’ Sian, 30/10/2008
‘We’ve got the OOS thank yous and menus. They are all so great! We thought the invites were fantastic and so different to everything else that we’d seen.Thank you so much for being so easy to talk to and so quick to reply / sort things. Its been great working with you! We will defo be in touch if we have a christening or party for the wedding next year for sure!! Kindest regards! Sian’ 05/11/2008
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This is Anna & Sam’s wedding invitation - -
‘Hi Alice, Love it!!!!! Many thanks Alice once again!!’ Anna, 07/11/2008
I also did their RSVPs and seperate evening invitations as well. ‘They look amazing – you really are a design star!!’ Anna, Tue 11/11/2008
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‘I was wondering whether you would be available to work with us on some invites to our very un-traditional and low key civil marriage ceremony and party which we’re holding next May 2009? Our venue for this is an art gallery/restaurant in south east London near the river - no tradition involved at any stage other than an old converted warehouse where we’ve having our celebration with approx 70 friends and family. I really like your website and the testamonials are impressive.’ Deborah, Mon 27/10/2008
For Deborah & Jonathan, I produced a completely new designs based on their brief.
‘We’re not looking for an invite that screams ‘wedding’ - it’s more of a relaxed, laid-back, urban party invite where there will be a wide range of people, from older and more conservative parents, to younger and funky friends and lots of younger kids. We live in an apartment in a converted jam factory, we’re planning to walk up the road together to the wedding and party, assuming my shoes are just about up to it, and we are long term Londoners. We’ll have a civil ceremony mid/late afternoon, then drinks, then food, then chillout time with music from i-pod - that sort of thing. We’d like to it be contemporary and warm whilst getting across the London feel which is very vibrant. Because we’re central Londoners through and through, one idea I had was about an illustration of the London skyline with outlines of the buildings that we know, like St Pauls, Houses of Parliament (where we’ve both worked in and around over the years), Tate Modern, Gerkin - that sort of thing. As well as our Jam Factory home!’ Deborah, 28/10/2008
‘Hi, thanks for this, amazed to see you’d worked so fast! We really like it, the perspective you’ve put on it is great.’ Deborah, 09/11/2008
‘Hi, we just got the invites, they look really fab, thanks so much. It all looks great and was really good working with you, with your combination of eye for detail and really good illustration, just what we wanted.’ Deborah, 25/11/2008
I also did an information insert and an A1 sized canvas for them as well.
‘We got the canvas and are very happy with it - it is now up on our wall and looks amazing in our lounge.My guess is we’ll be in touch again as it’s been great working with you, there will be more things we’ll need I am sure!’ Deborah, 05/01/2009
And then I did their seating plan and Order of ceremony.
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‘We just got married in October and I only learned about your stationery when I saw one of your thank you cards at a friend’s house. They’re cool! I really like the thank you card Andy & Victoria chose with their photo on the front.’ Janice, 01/12/2008
‘Alice, they are sooo cool!! Please send to print ASAP ;o)’ Janice, 10/12/2008
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Jenny and Tim will be the future Mr & Mrs Swann - -
‘ I recently ordered a few of your cards to get a feel for your work and absolutely love it! We are getting married next May, which seems a long way off at the moment. My fiancee’s surname is Swann and I wondered whether you would be able to incorporate two swans into one of your designs for an invitation.’ Jennie, 01/08/2008
This is their invite
‘ The ‘swann’ design is now perfect - thank you for that. We are both absolutely thrilled! ‘ Jennie, 25/09/2008
The back of their rsvp postcard -
And the front of their thank you postcard -
‘ We love them! ‘ Jennie & Tim 03/10/2008
‘Hi Alice, The parcel arrived yesterday and we are absolutely thrilled with your work! Thank you so much. I know that everyone is going to love them as much as we do. I can’t believe how lucky we were to find you! Thank you so much.’ Jen, 25/11/2008
They also ordered a canvas…
‘We put it on the wall last night. I am really, really pleased with it. Your excellent work has been worth every penny. Thank you so much!’ Jen, 07/01/2009
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‘We absolutely love your designs’ Kristin, 02/11/2008
I did a double sided save the date for Kristin & John, followed by their wedding invitation and RSVP cards in both German and English.
‘We recieved the cards on saturday.They are great! We’ve already sent them off to people.’ Kristin 24/11/2008
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For Matthew and Kristin (soon to be Mr & Mrs Peacock), I did wedding invites, an rsvp, an Order of service and a canvas.
‘Just received the invites and they look great. Thanks very much.’ Matthew, 10/12/2008
‘You recently designed our wedding invites, ‘the peacocks were always together’ - I am Ingrid, you dealt with my partner Matt Peacock. Wow, I have to tell you how much we love them. We have sent them out to our guests and the feedback we are getting is fabulous.’ Ingrid, 15/01/2009
‘The wedding went really well and all the Peacock stuff went down a treat.’ Matthew, 22/04/2009
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‘My fiancee and I were looking online for wedding stationery and came across your site. Your work caught our eye and made us smile.’ Wesley, 25/10/2008
This is the front of their invite…
‘Hi Alice! Thanks, so exciting! The invite looks amazing, thank you so much.’ Wesley, 09/11/2008
And this is the inside left page…
‘Just collected the parcel, they look great- hurrah!’ Stacey, 29/11/2008
I also did their guest names, placecards, thank yous and table names.
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And here’s a few of the more recent wedding stationery projects that I’ve been working on…
I will be adding more examples soon (just been so busy I’ve not had a chance!)
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You can look at the full range of designs available in the shop section. Designs which are particularly suitable are in the Wedding stationery link in the shop area: The Alice Palace shop’s wedding designs...
Some things to think about....
It is advisable to arrange wedding stationery 4 - 5 months before your wedding date - -
This could include:
Invitations - with wedding gift list details, maps to the wedding and reception venues, accomodation list details, dietary preference notes and menus (if necessary), and an RSVP card also enclosed.
Orders-of-service
Thankyou notes
Place-cards
Table numbers/names
Table names
Table plan
Guest book
Remember, wedding invites are normally sent out 3 months before the BIG day - but you can send out save-the-date cards whenever you like!
If you would like further information, or a chat about your wedding stationery, please contact Alice on 01386 424977.
All artwork is also available on canvas in memory of the day or for a special wedding present.
