WedWed - Wedding Wednesday {23}
Aug 10, 2011 
The invitations went out last Friday! I still have a few remaining, but the vast majority are out there in the world. Hooray!
When I began my initial invitation sketches, Chris expressed to me that all he really, really wanted was a conifer tree on our invites. I set out to make that happen. Using my WedWed invitation inspiration post, I created a conifer tree in Adobe Illustrator that I then repeated, scaled and flipped in order to create variation in the forest. From there, I turned to my wedding palette for color choice and to my new favorite font Strange Love for the typography. My goal was to have our invitations feel handmade, light-hearted, and welcoming. We chose to keep the invitation suite simple: the invite itself, an RSVP postcard, and a business card with the wedding website URL for more details.
Here's a close-up of the invitation itself:
Before the invitations went out, we had to create the website. Every couple has things they like to do together; some couples read books, ride bikes, and travel. In addition to traveling and cooking with one another, Chris and I enjoy designing together. Things like websites are perfect for us to work on as a team. I generate the wireframes, meaning that I set up what I think is a good layout for the website based on what the two of us discuss. Then, once we've agreed on the wireframes, I create the graphics such as the headers, images, and illustrations. From there Chris does the hard stuff - he actually builds it and makes it function properly. He worked extremely hard on this website - even writing all the content while I was at my fabulous bachelorette party - and I am very thankful.
Here are some screen shots of the site:
Good work Chris!!
In the end I would say that, while at times stressful, creating our own invites was certainly the way to go and it's my hope that they were well received.
Reader Comments (2)
Wedding on Wednesday? Wow! Wed...Wed...Wed. I love the tagline. I saw a lovely couple here.
A very formal invitation cards. I want an invitation that is formal and neat too.