I recently designed and hand printed some wedding invites inspired by the original Nintendo prompted by the grooms kinship to Megaman. Hillary and Morgan were looking for unique stationary that reflected their sense of humour and had a casual elegant feel like their planned garden party wedding. The invites have a fold that tears off into an RSVP card.
Finished up screen printing the wedding welcome tote bags for my guests from “away” (if you are not from Nova Scotia than you are from “away”.) My mother did a fantastic job fabricating them, so many thanks to The MOM. Now I just need to find some Atlantic goodies to fill them with, any suggestions?
Looks like all he printing for my (not so royal) wedding is wrapping up. Spent most of the morning cutting up sheets of paper in order to obtain one hundred plus A2 sized cards. The illustration ties back in with the place cards and wedding invitation - fisherman and his mermaid bride after then marriage is what I like to think. Now that Canada Post is back up and running I can start writing up and sending out these thank you notes, so I leave you to it and am off to buy more calligraphy ink!
I’ve never been a fan of wedding videos, but maybe I should start paying attention to them because this one by Shark Pig is THE BEST. It has a beautiful style that lends to some seriously dreamy nostalgia, reminds me a lot of the opening for the wonder years but romantic. I’m going to need one of these done up for my wedding. *super sigh.
After a month filled with social events, I was finally able to get back into the swing of screen printing and banged out 50 sheets of place seating cards plus tags for the Stephanie + Matthew wedding favors. Favors will be confectioneries from Robertson’s Candy, a family run candy shop in Truro - Nova Scotia (home of the groom). Robertson’s is well known for their barley candy (only sold during the Christmas season) and chicken bones (a cylindrical pink hard candy with a chocolate filling looking much like a bone). Originally the vendor was going to provide packaging for the wedding treats but in the end felt I could design a more event appropriate label myself. The tags will look real nice tied up with navy and white bakers twine around the favor boxes.
Here are the complete Stephanie + Mathew wedding invitations and accompanying map with directions. More pics after the jump!
I spent the most part of last week cooped up screen printing my wedding invitations. It was my first time printing outside of a proper studio and I have to say I am pretty pleased with the final results. I set up a small printing station in my office, turned the bathroom into a dark room for an hour and made the shoe shelves into a make shift drying rack. If this could be my full time gig I would be living the life.
Photos of the final full assemblage tomorrow!
Stephanie Cheng is a lover and maker of visual things. She used to be a teenager but these days she isn't. This is her blog of how she went from there to here.
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