Wedding Roses Forever First Class Postage Stamps

Two white roses resting on a piece of wedding correspondence, with a white ribbon behind them. Renée Comet took the photograph and Ethel Kessler designed the stamp. It is almost aggressively restrained - white on white on cream, no color anywhere - and that is the reason it gets bought. A wedding invitation is usually already carrying a monogram, a typeface and a color scheme, and this stamp does not argue with any of them.

It is a one-ounce Forever stamp, worth 82¢ today and worth a one-ounce letter whenever you use it. That covers save-the-dates, reply envelopes, thank-you notes and single-card invitations. A full invitation suite - card, reply card, reply envelope, insert - normally crosses an ounce, so weigh one before buying for the outer envelopes; a two-ounce stamp costs $1.11 against $1.64 for two Forever stamps. Sheets of 20. Couples tend to buy several sheets at once, since the thank-you notes come months after the invitations.