RETROPRESS - MAKING YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION COUNT!

When you decide you're getting married one of the first things you think about is letting people know, and sending out your Save the Date cards can sometimes be the first time you share the great news with your friends and family.  That's when you realise you need Retropress!

Retropress is the baby of Kate Clift, self-confessed stationery obsessive, with a passion for design and a conviction that your stationery says as much about you as your dress, flowers and venue.

We totally agree and you'll love the excitement of choosing something personal to you to spread the great news!

With a choice of their off the peg boutique collection or customer bespoke designs you can select the perfect style to suit you and your big day. 

Kate and her team cover every aspect of your stationery needs but we particularly love her coasters - the perfect keepsake for all guests and great fun!

Come and meet Kate to talk about all your stationery needs and we promise you, you'll be hooked!

Email: kate@retropress.org

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RETRO DOES WEDDINGS! BESPOKE STATIONERY FOR A GREAT FIRST IMPRESSION

Established in 2012 by Kate Clift, Retro Press are letterpress wedding specialists who provide a totally bespoke and personalised service to create a design totally unique to you.

Kate believes your wedding stationery is so important because it's the first impression people will have of your day.  When it comes to design, Retro Press can create modern, traditional or vintage styles and Kate maintains anything is possible!  They can provide everything from Save the Dates to Thank You cards and everything in between

With a degree in graphic design and a passion for her work, Kate and her company pride themselves on giving 110% to their customers and they'll work with you to ensure that your stationery is a reflection of your perfect day!

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Email:kate@retropress.co.uk 

Tel:  07884 214187

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YOUR UNIQUE SCRAPBOOK - UNIQUELY PERSONALISED VINTAGE WEDDING GUESTBOOKS

We're so thrilled to have Your Unique Scrapbook join us again at the fair.  Their stand is always full of beautiful, covetable pieces and you'll find their wonderful guestbooks and accessories very hard to resist!

Each guestbook is unique to you and personalised with your names and wedding date.  Sharon Barbour, the incredibly creative lady who makes these charming pieces, can work with your colour ways and any specifications to produce a perfect piece for you.   

But they don't stop there!  They can produce personalised stationery, pens, photo albums, even stunning keepsake suitcases - everything to make your wedding complete in the same vintage style.  And a wedding album makes a fabulous gift for the bride and groom to look at and remember their wedding day.

Looking for a Bridesmaid's gift?  What about their fabulous Paris vintage tea diary, launched last year?  And their natural flower petals confetti, in pretty envelopes is proving really popular with guests and venues alike!

We're really excited that Sharon is introducing this new book to her collection.  Over to her to tell you all about it.  "We love this handmade Forever Memory Wedding Guest Book - shabby chic theme.  The pages reflect hints of the rustic life, love and promises to be kept.   This is a book to treasure. 

This book will give you the memories of your wedding day and beyond. Guests are asked 'Where did you meets us?, How did you meet each other? and "Where will we be in 20 years?", you can add your own too and change these.

HOW did your story begin?  There is a special page for this for your guests to be reminded of your love journey. Lots of pockets, cards with cute angels and fairies, embellishments, ribbon and lace.  The book is aged to look very old, but precious.

Come and meet Sharon and see her beautiful products at the fair - I promise you'll be tempted!

LILY & LOUIE - UNIQUE VINTAGE STYLE

We're so glad to be welcoming back the wonderfully talented Lily & Louie to this year's fair.  We loved their beautiful dresses and accessories last year and this year they'll be bringing even more with them from their studio in Exeter.

A real bride wearing the 'Lily' dress  with a tulle overlay
and a bespoke veil to match her dress (similar to far away thought veil) 

Jayne Miller, the creative talent behind Lily and Louie, designs and creates individual dresses and accessories inspired by a past age of elegance.  Inspired by the style and fun of the 1950's, their current collection includes full, tea-length dresses in silk, satin taffeta and tulle.  

They can also make bespoke dresses individually designed for you where Jayne will chat to you about design ideas and produce drawings to bring your vision to life. She will then produce a bespoke pattern and the dress will be made and fitted to perfection.

Real bride wearing  a bespoke dress with an ivory and gold lace overlay on  the bodice & long flowing skirt.
The bridesmaids are all in made-to-measure blush silk dresses.

As Jayne says " There are many choices of fabric colours and lace styles to choose from to create your own one-off creation".

A selection of different styles, colours and fabrics for your perfect dress.

But her talents don't end there, as Jayne also designs and makes beautiful birdcage veils, Tiaras and headbands. Their beautiful accessories include capes, boleros and wraps as well as elegant necklaces and pretty garters and all are made from quality lace and silks, freshwater pearls, Russian veiling and Swarovski crystals.  They can even provide personalised wedding cufflinks!

Oh - and if that isn't enough, they can supply personalised wedding stationery!

Featured on Love my Dress and many other wedding sites, we're very proud to have this sought after supplier exhibiting at our fair.

RETROPRESS - VINTAGE DESIGN IS THE WORD!

There's something so exciting about receiving news of a wedding in the post, and the style and look of the invitation are the first moment your guests will see what kind of day it's going to be, so it's important to make a great impression.  Retro Press can guarantee you'll do just that!

A creative letterpress studio who mainly design and print bespoke wedding stationery with a refreshing, quirky, vintage style that's just a bit different from the norm, Retro Press like to keep it fun, fresh and funky and whatever you choose will be unique to you.

Kate Clift, the owner of Retro Press is passionate about her work and says " We do everything here at Retro Press, from the Save the Dates and invitations to bunting and posters ... and everything in between."

"Everything we do is personalised, so even the 'templates' you will find on our website can be changed to suit a particular couple with regards to wording and colours."

"The 'travel tag' style is definitely our most popular invitation but we can do anything - any shape, size, colour, traditional or more contemporary - but also vintage.  Always retro!  The Save the Date coasters are also highly desired as these are unique and such a great way of having something memorable for the guests to keep."



Kate has impressive credentials - with a degree in Graphic Design, she undertook a 3-month internship at the famous Hatch Show Print in Nashville where she fell in love with the letterpress process and brought this passion home.

Invented back in the 15th Century, letterpress is a handmade process, giving each piece a rich, unique quality with no two prints being identical.  

As Kate says "... here at Retro, we love, live, eat, breathe every single little thing letterpress so we can't see how you won't be captured by it's charm too!"

I must admit I'm hooked and you will be too once you've had a chat with Kate at the fair.

BRISTOL VINTAGE WEDDING FAIR 2015 - A DATE FOR YOUR DIARIES!

I'm really proud to announce this year's Bristol Vintage Wedding Fair exhibitors!   It's finally come around and we've got two floors of really gorgeous exhibitors from vintage and vintage inspired dresses & accessories, clever wedding styling, glamorous jewellery & lingerie, luscious cakes, fantastic photographers, elegant stationery and so much more!  All ready to meet you at the beautiful Clifton Pavilion, Bristol Zoo Gardens!

The fair is on Sunday, 8th March and we're planning on sunshine!  We LOVE this year's artwork from the incredibly talented Moomie Swan so look out for our promotional postcards and our banners gracing Bristol's walls!

Doors open at 10.30 and entry is free so we hope to see you then!

Meticulous Ink

We’re delighted to welcome back Meticulous Ink for our next Bristol Vintage Wedding Fair.  Owned by Athena Cauley-Yu, stationery designer & typesetter, and Charlie Cumming, illustrator & printer, Meticulous Ink is a traditional printer and fine stationer based in the heart of artisan Bath.

With backgrounds in typography, illustration and design, both Athena and Charlie are passionate about stationery. They offer a completely bespoke stationery service, ensuring each invitation they design fits your wedding perfectly. You’d prefer a hand-drawn invitation?  They do that too.

  

Your wedding invitation is the first introduction to your guests and Meticulous Ink can help set the tone, letting friends and family know whether it’s a traditional, relaxed or more outrageous event. Taking their inspiration from vintage posters and books to modern designers across the globe, your wedding stationery will be as unique as you wish it to be or as classic as you prefer.  From the choice of letterpressed, engraved or embossed paper to the style of print, each item will be a completely individual, unique design.  From Save the Date cards to the Order of Service, they can customize and print every element of your wedding stationery in whatever format and colour, however elaborate you want.

Everything they produce and sell under Meticulous Ink is designed, printed and finished entirely in Bath on their beautiful vintage presses that date from 1870 to 1960, which help them achieve that authentic vintage style.

At our Fair in March you’ll have a chance to meet Athena and take a look at the meticulously designed wedding stationery samples. She’ll also be bringing along their latest range of hand-printed greetings cards, which you’ll be able to buy on the day.

Oh and did we mention Athena designed and printed this years Bristol Vintage Wedding Fair poster?  We love it and we know you’ll love Meticulous Ink.

Inspiring Us - Something Kinda Cute

If you’re a quirky couple who love all things vintage, then Something Kinda Cute has the wedding stationery for you. Their handmade collections are created with love in mind and inspired by your hopes, dreams and desires.  

Founder and owner Shell Lewis is a graphic designer and all round creative who started the business after creating stationery for her own wedding.  She loved the process so much and had so many more ideas, she wanted to share them, and so Shell and her husband Craig began Something Kinda Cute.  Shell specialises in a quirky vintage-inspired line of wedding stationery and offers a personal bespoke service with a professional finish.  Her team will work closely with you to help create a design that really says something about you as a couple and still suits the type of wedding you’re planning. Of course, if time is of the essence, they have lots of lovely pre-designed collections available.  Take a look at the gallery and be spoilt for choice.  Each design can be customised with your choice of text and colours, from the beautiful 'Vintage Garden' range to the super fun 'Rockin' 50's Diner'.   

      

When she’s not designing, Shell and her hubby also run a really successful vintage wedding fair in Wales, the Something Kinda Vintage Wedding Fair. In Swansea's beautiful and historic Brangwyn Hall, with over 45 amazing vintage and vintage-inspired exhibitors (including a few from Bristol!), there's Iive music, a vintage tea parlour, burlesque performances, workshops and a fashion show. Shell and Craig will also be setting up shop soon in a new vintage and local design boutique in central Cardiff.  An art, design and vintage 'hub', Hubbard's Cupboard will support local talent by forming a big collective community.  Shell and Craig are already planning 'DIY Bride' workshops where you can learn how to create cost-effective styling solutions for your wedding, in a fun and sociable environment. They're not resting there... They've teamed up with the owners of Hubbard's Cupboard to create a vintage wedding market in the heart of Cardiff!  

You can contact Shell via email at shell@somethingkindacute.com or find Something Kinda Cute on Facebook and Twitter.  Don’t forget to check out their gloriously vintage website and get lost in their gallery of stationery.  For lovers of beautiful, bespoke and quirky stationery, look no further!

Thank you to... 

www.nataliejweddings.com 
www.weheartpictures.com
www.ojphotos.com

... for the photographs.