photos — Christina Harrison
Venue — Shedd Aquarium
Chicago, Illinois

The save the date’s shiny gold foil on blue-green handmade paper evokes buried treasure, and the soft, tone-on-tone letterpress invitation reminds us of sandy ocean floors. Featuring a vintage octopus illustration (we like to think she’d be just as at-home at the Shedd Aquarium as she would depicted in the seas of a pirate map), this suite is elevated yet whimsical — an imagined piece of maritime paper history.

Tasked with creating a one-of-a-kind suite celebrating all things oceanic, we wanted to stray from the stereotypical — less Nantucket coastal, more Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus.