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| Modern version of an illuminated manuscript. Photo Credit: The UK Wedding Calligraphers |
It wasn’t until the 1600’s, after the appearance of the printing press and engraving, that printed wedding invitations were more readily available to the middle class.
In the middle ages, in England, only nobility could read wedding invitations, which they had hand-crafted by monks, skilled in the art of Calligraphy. Weddings of commoners were announced by a Town Crier, a man who would walk through the streets announcing the new of the day. Anyone who heard the wedding announcement was welcomed to the celebration.
The industrial revolution and the invention of lithography paved the way for wedding invitations to be mass-marketed. But they weren’t commercially printed until the period right after WWII and the arrival of thermography.
Do you have questions about the different types of printing mentioned in this post? Stay tuned, each month I will be featuring a different type of printing.
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