The Collection Guide
The Luxury Foundation
We believe your wedding milestones deserve a prestigious canvas. Our studio prints exclusively on 100% pure cotton paper stocks across every single tier. From our flat-printed designs to our deep letterpress selections all our suites are printed on fluffy 118 lb Reich Savoy cotton. You will never receive standard cardstock from our studio.
The Lime & Lily White Glove Standard
- Digital Guest Addressing | Included
- Guest addressing that beautifully complements your design is included in every order at no extra cost.
- Meticulous Studio Assembly | Included
- To ensure your investment arrives to your guests looking fabulous, full studio hand-assembly is wrapped into every single order. Our team meticulously sets your liners, sequences your insert cards in flawless etiquette order, and neatly seals your outer envelopes before securely packing them for shipping to you or your planner.
- Bespoke Design Oversight | Included
- A dedicated professional designer runs point on bringing your selections to life. From order inception to final proofing, you collaborate directly with an artisan who honors the importance of your wedding day.
Printing Methods
Digital
Clean, crisp, flat printing executed on 118lb Reich Savoy 100% Cotton Paper. Digital prints artwork smoothly on the paper, with no raised or indented impression. If you run your fingers over it, you’ll only feel the texture of the paper itself. Digital printing is good for multi-color artwork such as watercolors.
Letterpress
Traditional hand-cranked letterpress executed via our local independent pressman. Your design is crafted onto a letterpress plate which is then pressed directly into each piece of paper by hand. Letterpress features gorgeous dimensional indentations pressed directly into the paper.
Paper Choices
Brilliant White
A clean, cool and crisp bright white shade perfect for clean, modern designs.
Paper Thickness
Single-ply paper is a thinner, more economical option, while double-ply is thicker with a more luxurious feel. Double-ply is often preferred for formal, elegant weddings, adding a sense of weight and quality to the invitation. Single-ply, on the other hand, is suitable for more casual styles and can be more budget-friendly.
Pearl White
A soft, warm, elegant off-white shade that sits gracefully between bright white and traditional ivory.
Upgrade the invitation card to double ply for a luxurious experience for your showstopper piece and keep the rest of your cards single-ply.
Embellishments
To offer total styling flexibility and investment control, all our embellishments are curated entirely à la carte. wedding day blueprint. If you are ready to begin visualizing your suite’s final layers, we invite you to explore our Embellishments Page for curated styling inspiration. If you have an original concept or a unique idea in mind that is not featured on our storefront, please never hesitate to ask. Our custom studio is fully equipped to bring complex designs to life, allowing us to seamlessly translate almost any custom idea into a beautiful reality.
COMPARISON
Custom vs. Semi-Custom Invitations
Custom Invitations
- Designed from scratch, ensuring a one-of-a-kind look that reflects the couple's vision
- Unlimited customization from the overall concept to the smallest details
- Provide an elevated experience with invitations that create a sense of luxury and exclusivity, making guests feel special
Semi-Custom Invitations
- The design process is streamlined, leading to quicker production and delivery times.
- Pre-curated designs simplifying the selection and customization process
- Invitations that appear custom without the custom budget or timeline
How it works
Our Process
Browse our semi-custom portfolio, choose your favorite design, make your print, paper, & color selections and input your quantity. Our real-time on-screen calculator handles the math, allowing you to complete your secure payment 100% upfront.
The second your purchase is complete, our system will automatically guide your browser straight into your private Lime & Lily Client Portal. There, you can access your interactive Onboarding Design Questionnaire to safely type out your wording details and upload your guest list spreadsheet at your own pace.
Your designer will manually review your design brief and deliver your initial digital layout proofs within 5 to 7 business days. We will adjust and refine your typography alignments until they are absolutely perfect before sending your order to print.
Once printing and meticulous studio hand-assembly are complete, your entire order is safely packed and shipped directly to you or your wedding planner. Because we do not physically mail individual envelopes to your guest list, this gives you and your planner absolute timeline control to take your invitation suites to your preferred local branch, secure your chosen stamps, and safely mail your invitations to your guests.
Faqs
Frequently Asked Questions
Most answers to your questions about the semi-custom collection can be found here, in the Collection Guide, or on the product listing itself. However, if you have further questions please email me at angie@limeandlilydesign.com
To ensure a completely relaxed and flawless production timeline, we recommend securing your calendar slot as early as possible. Our design queue operates on a limited-commission basis each month to protect our white-glove quality standards.
Save the Dates: We recommend placing your order 6 to 9 months before your wedding date. This allows ample time for digital typesetting, physical press manufacturing, and assembly before mailing them out roughly 6 months ahead of your celebration.
Invitation Suites: We recommend purchasing your collection 4 to 6 months before your wedding date. Your formal invitations should be mailed to guests 8 to 10 weeks prior to your wedding day (or 12 weeks for a destination wedding). Your production timeline depends on your print method, with digital taking 2-3 weeks and letterpress taking 4-5 weeks on average.
Sometimes. You may request that your order be rushed. Please email me at angie@limeandlilydesign as soon as possible with your desired completion date. If your requested date is possible, an additional fee will be added to your order to accommodate the rush order.
Always calculate households and not individuals. We highly recommend ordering 10% to 15% extra to account for late guest additions and keepsake sets. Please note that because our print setups rely on fixed plates and press calibrations, re-ordering small batches after production has begun incurs additional printing and material costs. Once your order is placed, we cannot reduce the quantity.
Yes! Full white-glove studio hand-assembly is included with every single order. We completely assemble your suites and ship them directly to you or your planner. Please note that we do not physically mail individual envelopes to your guest list, allowing you and your planner to select your stamps and safely mail your invitations at your local branch on your own timeline.
Please email right away and let us know. If your invitations have already been sent to press, a change order fee, the cost of the extra invitations, and extra lead time will be added to your order.
The minimum amount is 50 and the maxiumum amount you can order online is 500. We can accommodate larger orders. Please contact us for a quote.
Our all-inclusive semi-custom Save the Dates begin at $600 and our Invitation Collections begin at $1,500 for a baseline run of 100 sets. You may adust the number up or down from 100 and our built in calculator automatically scales the pricing for you.
There are two built-in revisions to revise text, color palette, and add-ons.