Albertine Press

Albertine Press is a Cambridge stationery studio and retail shop offering custom letterpress wedding stationery alongside curated cards, gifts, and paper goods. The studio is known for custom letterpress wedding suites, including save the dates, formal invitations, day-of paper goods, personalized thank-you stationery, and hand-lettered calligraphy for invitations and place cards, printed on vintage equipment using centuries-old techniques. Albertine Press was founded in 2005 by Shelley Barandes, a designer with a background in architecture whose family connections to printing span multiple generations. Located at 1309 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Couples describe smooth communication with Shelley and Jen at every stage, note that Shelley sketches ideas by hand during in-person consultations, and highlight Jen's calligraphy and production coordination as standouts; finished products are consistently described as arriving on time and exceeding expectations.