A thousand years of brush painting, distilled onto a 5×7 card — and made simple enough that you'll have yours printed before the kettle boils.
Most wedding invitations shout. Ink wash whispers — and somehow the whisper is what guests remember. The tradition began with Tang dynasty painters who discovered that diluted ink, loaded onto a soft brush, could hold entire weather systems: mist that swallows mountains, a branch that carries a whole spring. That restraint is exactly what makes it work on stationery. The page breathes. Your words carry.
Our Ink & Bloom Wedding Invitation Suite is four cards in the ink-wash tradition, plus everything you need to print them:
Ink wash invitations tend to find their people in three situations:
Two honest paths. At home, the artworks are supplied at roughly 200 DPI at full card size — crisp on any decent inkjet, especially on textured or cotton paper, where the ink-wash motifs look almost pressed into the fiber. At a print shop, export each card as PDF (the guide shows the exact settings) and hand it over; the files are built to standard US sizes, so no one will ask you awkward questions about bleed. Most couples spend about fifteen minutes editing and one evening printing.
We build these artworks with modern tools — code and image generation — and finish them by hand in the old sense: line weight, spacing, tone, until the page breathes. We tell you plainly because the tradition matters more to us than the mystique. The result is what counts: a plum branch your guests will study while the ceremony starts late.
An invitation using East Asian brush-painting techniques — diluted ink for mist, dry brush for blossom branches — to create calm, atmospheric artwork. Our suite uses plum blossom, misty mountains, two birds, and a crane on warm rice-paper tones.
Yes. The artwork is East Asian in spirit, but the cards follow standard Western formats — 5×7 and 4.25×5.5 inches — with English typography and standard sections. It reads as elegant and cross-cultural, never as costume.
Yes — that's the point. The printing guide covers paper and settings, and the artworks are supplied at approximately 200 DPI. Print shops work too; the guide includes instructions for that path.
$19 as a one-time purchase for the full suite — four cards, four PNG artworks, and the guide. No subscription, no per-guest fee. Print as many copies as your list needs.
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