Wedding Invitations

Today we hop! Click on the blue Designer Connection logo and take a trip around the webring to see what our talented group has come up with today. The theme is wedding projects. And how convenient for me- we have a wedding coming up within the month :-) Here's a peek at the invitations I designed for my daughter's wedding.

She really liked how they came out. I love the colors she picked (although I was pushing for aqua...) and her theme is hearts. So I created some heart flowers in Illustrator and laid everything out.

Normally I would have printed them myself but because these were a very important job, I sent them to a Signature Printing to be printed on nice heavy cardstock. When I got them back, they looked pretty plain. Jess happened to be home that weekend so we went to town with some adhesive backed half pearls which we added to some of the flower centers for a 3D effect. We also decided to use a bellyband to hold the packet together. Their wedding logo was printed and punched from a scalloped circle.

If you look closely at the logo, you will see that the cakestand base is two J's back to back (one is reversed). I used the Mandolyn font from Duetica. This is my fave font! So elegant and flowing but still readable. This font system is amazing because you can select from 10-20 options of each letter in a font family so that no two are alike- so many options to customize your layout and make it just the way you want it.

When I think about it, the stand is a cool metaphor for marriage. Two individuals working to support what they will build together- their life, family and dreams. sniff sniff. Hard to believe I will have a married daughter in less than a month! Will be posting more as the day draws closer...