Collections on Paper Skeleton

Wilderness

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Wilderness is for the couples heading somewhere wide open — a glen, a hillside, a loch, a Highland estate where the view does most of the work. The design takes that landscape and strips it back to its simplest form: a horizon line, a ridge, a single mark of light.

It’s the most pared-back collection in the range, and deliberately so. When your venue is already doing something extraordinary, the stationery’s job is to set the tone and get out of the way.

Blossom

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Blossom is the softest design in the collection — petal forms drawn back to their simplest shapes and given plenty of room to breathe. It suits spring and early summer weddings, and couples who want something romantic without anything fussy.

The delicacy is the point. It’s the same instinct behind the Paper Skeleton name: take something to its foundation, and what’s left is finer than what you started with.

Blossom can be tailored to suit your style and colour palette — the petal work sits beautifully in a soft blush, but it’s just as striking in a deep tone on a pale stock. All of the details and finishing touches are optional and itemised, so you can build the set to suit your budget.

Haar

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If you’ve spent a summer on the north east coast you’ll know the haar — the sea fog that rolls in off the North Sea and quietly removes the horizon. It’s a very Aberdeen thing, and it makes for a very Aberdeen collection.

Haar is built from layered bands that sit and drift across the page, softening as they go. It’s the most atmospheric design in the range and works particularly well for coastal venues, winter weddings, and couples drawn to a muted palette rather than a bright one.

Flutter

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Flutter comes closest to the idea that started all of this. When I was working out the name, I looked at skeletons of all types — not just bones, but leaves, insects, webs. I loved how delicate they became.

Flutter takes that structure directly: wing forms, fine lines, the sense of something light enough to move. It’s a little off the wall, and it’s for couples who’ll appreciate that — people who are not looking for traditional.

Geo

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Geo is the most graphic design in the range: circles, diamonds and rules, arranged with a lot of white space and nothing spare. It’s the collection for modern venues, city weddings, warehouse spaces and couples who’d describe their taste as architectural rather than floral.

It’s also the design that most clearly shows how I work — break the brief down to its simplest form, then put it back together with design solutions. There’s nothing on a Geo invitation that isn’t doing a job.

Nordic

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Nordic borrows from Scandinavian folk pattern and takes out everything that isn’t essential — leaving clean repeating diamond forms that feel warm without being busy. It’s a natural fit for winter weddings, lodge and barn venues, and couples who like a bit of pattern but not a lot of it.

Nordic is also the design I most often use to explain how the collections work: if you’d like the design but don’t require the pocket or the tag, you can order just the main fold out invitation. Everything is itemised, so the set is yours to build.

Zine-Vite : One

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The one that started the range. Zine-Vite : One is the most straightforwardly editorial of the five — a strong cover, a clear grid inside, and plenty of room to actually talk to your guests about the day.

It’s the design I’d point you to first if you like the zine idea but want the layout to feel familiar: it reads like a good magazine, and it behaves like one on a coffee table.

Zine-Vite : Two

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Zine-Vite : Two is the image led design. It’s built around a photograph, so it’s the one to choose if you have a picture you love and want it doing real work rather than tucked into a corner.

Some couples take this as an opportunity to use an image from an engagement or pre-wedding shoot — but it really can be anything. The image is yours; the layout makes room for it.

Zine-Vite : Three

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Zine-Vite : Three is the typographic one. There’s no photograph and none is needed — the type, the palette and the paper do all of it.

It suits couples who’d rather not put a picture of themselves through the letterbox, and it’s a good choice if your wedding has a strong colour story you want to lead with. It’s also the design that changes most dramatically with a change of stock: the same layout on a deep colourplan reads completely differently to the same layout on something pale.

Zine-Vite : Four

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Zine-Vite : Four is the loudest of the five. Big type, high contrast, a cover that commits — it’s for couples whose day is anything but understated, and who want the invitation to say so before it’s even opened.

It’s a little off the wall, and that’s rather the point. Paper Skeleton has never been for people looking for traditional.

Underneath the boldness it’s still a zine: multi-page, well structured, and generous with the information your guests actually need. Styled to suit you through paper type, colour and optional design elements. More about Zine-Vites .

Zine-Vite : Five

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Zine-Vite : Five is the quiet one. Generous margins, fine type, and a slower pace through the pages — it’s designed to be read rather than scanned.

It’s the design for couples who want their guests to sit with it: the story of how you got here, the shape of the day, the people involved, the things that matter. All the detail, none of the noise.

As with every Zine-Vite, this can be styled to suit you and your wedding — changing paper types and colour, along with adding any design elements such as venue drawings or map drawings, makes each one completely different from the last. More about Zine-Vites .