When you mail your wedding invitations using vintage postage stamps, you'll create a special "wow" moment for the guests receiving your invitations. Your wedding is arguably the most special day of your life until now, and you've obsessed about every detail... Choosing vintage postage to mail your invitations is one of those special out-of-the-ordinary details that is sure to bring smiles to the faces of your wedding guests.

In a world of electronic overload, receiving a mailed invitation says "this is something really special, and you are special to me." Applying a generic USPS-printed postage label to your envelope can serve to dull the feeling conveyed by your invitation, making it seem more ordinary. But when your guests see the thought and emotion conveyed by the specially-selected personalized vintage postage stamps applied to the outside of your invitations, they immediately appreciate the extraordinary significance of your special day.

Instead of being tossed in a drawer, wedding invitations mailed with vintage postage are often photographed and tagged on social media posts. Your guests will probably ask why certain stamps were chosen, a conversation ensues, and thus begins the affair... months before the actual event itself!

Many wedding invitations require extra postage as they don't meet USPS requirements for normal mailing. Extra postage may be required for "non machinable" envelopes that include a wax seal, ribbon, are thicker than 1/4-inch, don't bend, are square shaped, or are irregular in size. We recommend taking an example invitation (with all contents included and any special wax seals or ribbons attached) to your local post office. Any U.S. Post Office should be able to confirm the amount of postage required to mail your wedding invitations.

This is the fun part! After you have determined how much postage is required to mail your particular wedding invitations (see above), you will now need to curate a "collage" of vintage postage stamps that collectively add up to the amount of postage necessary to mail your invitations. When selecting your wedding invitation stamp set, factors for choosing vintage stamps may include the face value of the stamps, color, and stamp themes that hold special significance for you and your spouse and families.

If you have the time and enjoy creative "scavenger hunts," curating your own set of vintage unused postage to mail your wedding invitations can be great fun. If you are pressed for time (understandable considering all that goes into planning a wedding), you may find that one of our curated postage sets meets your requirements. Alternatively, we've helped hundreds of couples curate that perfect set of personalized postage for their invitations, so choosing our custom curation services may be a good choice for your too.

Yes! If you're working on a budget, combining vintage postage stamps with current postage stamps may be a good way to save some money while still sending your wedding invitations with vintage flair.

All mailings sent through the United States Postal Service (USPS) must have their postage "cancelled" by the service. Cancelling a stamp is the process of marking it as used, and ensures that the stamp can't be used again. For normal mail that conforms to their regular standards for size and weight, USPS employs automated sorting, routing, and cancelling machines (the majority of mail is sent via this automated system). When a letter does not conform to the USPS standard size and weight requirements (as is the case for most wedding invitations), the post office routes this "non machinable" mail through a special handling system, which costs more. Accordingly, all non machinable mail (including most wedding invitations) must be "hand cancelled" by your local post office so they can rout it through their special handling system for mailing and delivery.

Extra postage is required for "non machinable" envelopes that include a wax seal, ribbon, are thicker than 1/4-inch, don't bend, are square shaped, or are irregular in size.

Yes! We offer a custom curation service that draws on our encyclopedic knowledge of every postage stamp ever issued by the United States Postal Service to design a highly personalized set of postage for your wedding invitations.

Absolutely! We already work with countless stationers around the country, and we'd be happy to work with your's too. As we specialize solely in vintage postage, stationers love to work with us. In short, we aren't seen as potentially competitive (we are not stationers), so there is no conflict of interest, just blissful symbiosis. To get started, simply send us a message via our custom curation services page.

Yes! Heritage Post House works with stationers around the country and we'd be happy to refer one to you. If you aren't already working with a stationer, we'll be happy to refer you to one in our network; just use our contact form to send us a note asking for a referral.