Sky blue and sand — the lightest of the four, and the only one whose second colour is a pale paper.
Swallows is drawn rather than assembled. A pair of birds carrying an olive branch heads the invitation, the welcome sign and the seating chart; a scalloped double frame holds the pieces that are objects rather than reading matter — the reply card, the place card, the number on the table. The script is copperplate, the labels are wide-set caps, and nothing else is asked to do any work.
Colour is fixed per piece instead of chosen once for the whole suite, and this palette turns the alternation the other way up. White cards with blue ink for what a guest reads closely, sky blue for what they hold, and a sand-beige stock for the two pieces that are a list — printed in the same blue rather than in white, because a pale card wants a dark hand on it.
It goes well past the invitation and the reply card. A save the date months ahead, a belly band to wrap the envelope, a favour tag, table numbers, an 18×24 seating chart and a thank-you card for afterwards — the pieces a wedding actually needs, in the same hand, so nothing on the day looks borrowed from somewhere else.
The light one: blue ink throughout, with beige rather than a second dark colour.