Wedding Invitations
Wedding invitations are currently kicking my butt. We’ve gone through so many iterations of the design: damask, flower motif, outline, pen and ink, maps, initials, script, serif… and finally ended up with something not bad. Then there was printing… pantone colors, letterpress, offset, laser, inkjet. The options were too expensive, or wrong paper, or couldn’t go borderless.
We settled with a 1000dpi Photoshop file output via inkjet photo printer onto Crane 8.5x11" 100% cotton “Natural White” 300gsm cover stock. We’ll make two cuts of those sheets to generate the different cards.
Anyhow, we’re in the final printing stages now and the invitations aren’t half bad. Like Mykala said, “I just want a piece of paper that lets people know where we are getting married.” That, we have.
Comments
Nils
I like Mykala’s comment. When you break it down like that, all the meticulous planning and work that goes into the minutiae of wedding invitations, just one small piece of the wedding puzzle, seems a little ludicrous. I guess it has to be, though. It’s your WEDDING after all, right? One of the biggest moments of your entire life. What kind of emotionless robot would you guys be if you just hand wrote “Getting Married” followed by the essential when’s and where’s on a piece of notebook paper? I guess when you look at it THAT way, all the work seems totally worthwhile and well spent. The big day is coming fast, hope you guys are ironing out all the details without fretting too much!