LONGHAND , wedding stationery website concept study
01 · The brief
The problem to solve
Stationers show catalogs. Longhand tells one love story.
Wedding stationery sites are template catalogs: fifty suites, filter by color, add to cart. Longhand works the opposite way: one couple at a time, everything drawn and lettered for them alone. A catalog format would have flattened the studio's entire value into a product grid. We set ourselves one brief: a site with the patience of the craft itself.
02 · The idea
One suite, envelope to ceremony
The site follows a single couple's suite from envelope to ceremony. Save-the-date, invitation, vow books, day-of pieces. Each appears in sequence as the page scrolls, the way the stationery itself arrives across an engagement. The signature moment is a name drawn in a continuous ink line, threading through the page like a ribbon through the suite.
The "Berry & Sage" palette and letterpress-inspired typography keep the screen faithful to the paper: soft, tactile, unhurried. Photography is shot close and warm: wax seals, deckled edges, ink still catching the light. Texture is the product.
The narrative format is also the positioning: a couple who wants a template won't make it past the first scroll, and the couple who wants Longhand will know within three.
03 · The study
Scope & record
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04 · Contact
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Longhand is a concept study; the narrative format is the kind of point of view a template can never give a real business. Twenty minutes, no pitch deck: tell us where the business is going, and we'll tell you if we can get you there.
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