Striped blush paper, a fine oval frame and copperplate script — traditional, but not stiff.
Blush Oval takes the vocabulary of formal engraved stationery — a ruled frame, a copperplate script, a centred block of text — and softens all of it. The paper carries fine vertical stripes rather than sitting flat, the frame is a thin oval instead of a rectangle, and the ink is blush rather than black. It looks like something from a good stationer without looking like it came from a hundred years ago.
The frame adapts to each piece rather than being squeezed to fit: an oval on the invitation and details card, an arch on the tall menu, a rounded rectangle on the landscape place card. An ellipse forced onto a narrow strip looks squashed, and forced onto a wide card it eats the corners, so each shape gets the version that suits it.
It is the most romantic of the five and the most flattering in print, because the pale ink and the stripes give a letterpress-like softness even from a digital press. Ask your print shop for uncoated stock. It suits garden parties, orangeries, country houses and long dinners.
The oval frame changes shape per card instead of being stretched.