Wedding Card Printing in Cuttack

The Middle Ages and before[edit]

Wedding Card Printing in Cuttack. Prior to the invention of the moveable-type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1447. Weddings in England were typically announced by means of a Town crier: a man who would walk through the. Traditionally, anyone within earshot became part of the celebration.

In the Middle Ages, illiteracy was widespread among common people, so the practice of sending written wedding . Families of means would commission monks, skilled in the art of calligraphy, to hand-craft their notices.

Such documents often carried the coat of arms, or personal crest, of the individual and were sealed with wax.

From 1600 onward[edit]

Despite the emergence of the printing press, the ordinary printing techniques of the time. In which ink was simply stamped onto the paper using lead type, produced too poor a result for stylish invitations. However, the tradition of announcing weddings in the newspaper did become established at this time.

In 1642, the invention of metal-plate engraving wedding invitations within the reach of the emerging middle class. requires an artisan to “hand write” the text in reverse onto a metal plate using a carving tool. The resulting engraved invitations were protected from smudging by a sheet of tissue paper placed on top. Which is a tradition that remains to this day.

At the time, the wording of wedding invitations was more elaborate than today. Typically, the name of each guest was individually printed on the invitation.

The Industrial Revolution[edit]

Following the invention of Lithography by Alois Senefelder in 1798, it became possible to produce very sharp and distinctive inking without the need for engraving.^[2] This paved the way for the emergence of a genuine mass-market in wedding invitations.

Wedding invitations were still delivered by hand and on horseback, however, due to the unreliability of the nascent postal system. A ‘double envelope’ was used to protect the invitation from damage en route to its recipient. This tradition remains today, despite advances in postal reliability.

Modern times[edit]

The origins of commercially printed ‘fine wedding stationery’ can be traced to the

where a combination of democracy and rapid industrial growth gave the common man the ability to mimic the lifestyles.

About this time, prominent society figures, such as Amy Vanderbilt and Emily Post, emerged to advise the ordinary man

Growth in the use of wedding stationery was also underpinned by the development of thermography. Although it lacks the fineness and distinctiveness of engraving, thermography is a less expensive method of achieving raised type.

This technique often called poor man’s engrav As such, wedding invitations – either printed or engraved – finally became affordable for all.