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About

Gus & Ruby Letterpress is an invitation boutique and custom design studio in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine and serving clients worldwide. They believe that every part of wedding planning is a joyous experience, infusing their personality and care into all of their custom pieces. They get their inspiration from almost anything, being sure that your designs reflect your unique styles and visions for your wedding. And don’t worry if you’re outside New Hampshire — Gus & Ruby Letterpress services weddings and couples from Maine to Vermont to New York and beyond!

Services Offered
Gus & Ruby Letterpress offer assembly, consultations, design, printing, and shipping for all their eco-friendly products, as well as additional services like calligraphy, embossed, foil-stamped, laser cut, letterpress, and thermography. And they can do more than just custom invitations! Gus & Ruby are able to provide couples with a small selection of products, including catalog invitations, imprinted napkins, menus, place cards, programs, RSVP cards, save the dates, and thank you cards.

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Frequently asked questions

What invitation and card products do you offer?

Catalog Invitations
Custom Invitations
Imprinted Napkins
Menus
Place Cards
Programs
RSVP Cards
Save the Dates
Thank Yous

What services do you provide?

Assembly
Calligraphy
Design
Embossed
Letterpress
Printing

Reviews of Gus & Ruby Letterpress

Karly
Karly Sent on 08/18/2024
5 out of 5 rating

The Best Stationery In the Industry!

Run, don't walk to Gus & Ruby! If you're getting married anywhere, use Gus & Ruby to make the most beautiful stationery for your wedding! I found Gus & Ruby because I just moved to Boston and was looking for a new stationery company after the first one used for my save-the-dates was not a great experience. From the moment of reaching out to Samantha to meeting in-person to many emails back-and-forth to bring our vision to life, Gus & Ruby exuded professionalism, kindness, and creativity. Additionally, I'm so happy they expertly worked in my mom's artwork into the wedding suite from the map, crest, and other artwork features. Lastly, it was so much fun ordering day-of stationery items with them like stickers, cocktail bar signs, food signs, and more! All in all, I can't recommend Gus & Ruby enough. They provide the highest quality invitations, day-of items, and service to make you feel at-ease and also realistically within a budget too! The amount of compliments we got on our invitations speaks volume for their work! Thank you, Gus & Ruby for making memorable time pieces that I'll cherish forever. I'm going to miss working with Samantha!
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Laura Sent on 07/10/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Beautiful Invitation suite

Loved working with Gus & Ruby for our save the dates and invitations. I wanted to use a typeface that was on my grandparents invitation from the 20’s and they helped me replicate the typeface and overall look. Very high quality product and very easy to work with! Thank you!!
Madeleine
Madeleine Sent on 10/17/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Gus & Ruby Wedding Invitations

We had a truly fabulous experience with the custom invitation team at Gus and Ruby. Laura was very attentive throughout the whole process and is generally a joy to work with. She struck the perfect balance of offering professional expertise and getting us what we wanted. While it is a pricier venture than minted, Zola or the like, it is totally personalized and the quality difference shows both during the design process and in the final product. In fact, several of our guests framed their wedding invitations!!

Would HIGHLY recommend going this route and supporting a small business if you can swing it.
Emily
Emily Sent on 07/01/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Simply the best.

The paper products were one of the aspects of wedding planning I was most looking forward to working on - and whether or not you feel that way, I promise you that Gus & Ruby will blow you away with their friendliness, professionalism, level of service, and quality of their work. I seriously cannot say enough good things about them, and will always cherish their beautiful work as mementos of our wedding. I had several ideas about what I wanted for our save the dates, invitations, and other paper goods, and they went above and beyond bringing my ideas to life. For the pieces that I wasn’t so sure about, they were creative and thoughtful in creating pieces that would complement and enhance our day. The Gus and Ruby team are detail-oriented, fun to work with, and create gorgeous work. They are responsive to ideas and questions, are great at coming up with alternatives if something doesn’t work, and will work with you until everything is just as you want it to be. They want everything to be perfect for you...They even hand delivered our table numbers to my parents’ house the day before our wedding because the color wasn’t just right. Sam, Laura, and everyone on your team, thank you so much for all your hard work - Everything you created was truly a highlight of our engagement and wedding.
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Ali Sent on 02/12/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Fantastic design & service!

As a self-professed paper geek (bride), it was important that we work with a great stationer for our wedding invitation. And, we couldn't have been happier with the beautiful wedding suite that Samantha at Gus & Ruby helped us design! Samantha was very patient with all of our questions, changes and, at times, in-decision about what we wanted the invitations to look like.

We landed on a classic invitation and Samantha helped us personalize it with a custom envelope liner, and formatting the text with italics, capitalization, and more. We would have loved to do more custom work with G&R (budget restraints kept us from doing so), but Samantha made our suite feel custom just through the great advice and customer service she provided.

We can't wait to work with G&R again. Thank you Samantha & team!
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Barrie Sent on 01/28/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Loved gus & ruby

We had an incredible experience with Gus & Ruby Letterpress. Working with Samantha, who designed our save the date, invitation, and day-of materials for our wedding was an absolute pleasure. Samantha was responsive, upheld our outlined timeline, and provided us with creative ideas that stayed true to our vision and budget. Not to mention, we live in Philadelphia and were getting married on Martha's Vineyard - and the team worked with us remotely to accomplish everything! We received so many compliments on how beautiful and unique our save-the-dates, invitations, welcome letters, and programs were. I have told all my engaged friends to use Gus & Ruby Letterpress.
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Lauren Sent on 10/20/2018
5 out of 5 rating

They are fantastic

Sam was amazing and absolutely great to work with. It was wonderful being able to customize our invitations. She was able to turn an idea into reality and help guide and tweak our vision into the perfect invite!
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Jenna Sent on 06/06/2018
5 out of 5 rating
I would recommend Gus & Ruby Letterpress to anyone! We ordered save the dates, invitations and RSVP cards and they all came out beautifully. We worked with Laura; she was an absolute pleasure! She made sure the wedding stationery came out exactly as we had envisioned. The experience is worth every penny. The services and products they offer are personalized and a little more special than some of the online companies. If you want something truly unique spend the little extra and visit Gus & Ruby Letterpress. If I ever have a big event again I will be sure to order from them again.
-Jenna :)
Mandy M.
Amanda Sent on 04/03/2018
5 out of 5 rating
We were really pleased with our experience at a Gus and Ruby! It was fun to visit their Portsmouth store with my mom for a consultation — the champagne was a nice touch and certainly made it feel special! Sam was so helpful, providing loads of tips and recommendations on how to approach our wedding invites. Communication was consistent and smooth throughout the process and I never doubted for a moment that we were in excellent hands! We’re so happy with the end result. The invitations are making their way out to guests now and we’re already getting loads of compliments. Love supporting a creative local business like this. If you’re looking for someone to partner with to create something beautiful and unique, look no further!
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Danielle Sent on 02/20/2018
5 out of 5 rating
Loved working with Gus & Ruby for our wedding invitations! I wanted a semi custom design, I used ideas from two of their templates and was able to add my own touches. They coached me through the design process-- I loved how everything turned out !
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Awards

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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2020 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2019 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2018 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2017 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2016 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2015 Winner

Professional Network & Endorsements

3 Endorsements
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Beautiful products and helpful staff!!

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Of your looking for gorgeous invitations and wedding stationary, look no further! Not only do they have the best selection, they also make the experience of choosing your invitations a fun process! Oh and they have the cutest shop ever!!!!

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Invitations are your guests' first impression of your wedding and the wonderful ladies at Gus and Ruby Letterpress are amazing at taking your wedding vision and creating a wedding invitation suite that reflects you and your fiance's personal style. Gus and Ruby's letterpress stationery is simply classic, timeless and beautiful. Not to mention Samantha (both of them!), Liz, Whitney & Laura are such a pleasure to work with. And Gus and Ruby - the two pups behind the name - help calm those wedding nerves with a friendly lick and endless love :) What's better than beautiful invitations, impeccable customer service and furry mascots?

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