Invitations
I don’t get to do these often, but they are some of my favorite things to create.
For our invitation, I decided to create the watercolor from scratch and scanned it in to create the background asset and handlettered all the information on the front. Our videographers, Handum Films, incorporated it into our same-day edit video from our wedding. I was pleased with how this invitation came out and it is thankfully one of my favorites.
For Karolin and Byron’s destination wedding invite, I produced everything myself. The prints were on metallic cardstock and from concept to delivery, my hands touched every portion of this design. I was so glad to help them with their bridesmaids and groomsmen ask boxes, all reception signs, thank you cards, and menus.
These invites are probably some of the most epic ones yet. Mia had a great idea for their destination wedding invitations and I took it a whole step further! We decided on creating invitations that mimicked a passport with all the needed information inside the booklet, and the boarding pass serving as an RSVP postcard that mails back, and the perforated ticket stub that stays behind with the invited guest as a Save The Date. I had a custom rubber stamp created with their name and return address for the back of the envelopes and I also had the honor to address all their intended guests’ names and addresses in calligraphy.
This was a fun collaboration with my best friend, Myka. As the Maid of Honor, she decided to gift her friends Clay and Andie with some amazing and beautiful invitations. The gate fold is completely custom made. From an image of the gate at Club 33 at Disneyland (which is where Clay proposed to Andie), I created the vector and after much trial and error, Myka was able to get these cut with her Cricut. I designed and printed (on 100lb linen) and advised Myka to use gold photo corners so the intended guests are still able to use the gatefold, perhaps for their own photos as a photo holder. I also recommended a gold vellum sheet to go in between the printed invite to give the gate a bit of a stained glass look. For the gate opening, she decided on the vellum sheet with a wax seal to create an enclosure to keep the gate fold closed. As soon as we have some beautiful shots of the invitation, I’ll update them here!