1. SET THE TONE WITH GRAPHICS
a. Express the tone of the wedding in the Save the Date: From the get-go, we knew we wanted our event to be kinda hippie have a sense of humor to it–so we made the Save-the-dates with shotguns that have flowers protuding from the barrels to hint at our ‘Shotgun’ Wedding, and hints of ‘make love not war’.
b. Pick a Primary and secondary font that will adorn all of your graphics. I used HLMT rounded (available for free download) as our primary font, and Futura as our secondary font. These fonts were used throughout the event, from the invites to the thank-you cards.
c. Convey details of the wedding in the invites: Once we got around to designing the invites, we also knew that we wanted our wedding to be fun, relaxed, romantic, personal and outdoors, so we made sure those things came across in our invites. The back of the invites were designed to look like it was actually ‘from the back,’ our kitty made an appearance on all graphic elements and we hid storks carrying babies on the invites too. Very few people had to ask us ‘what to wear’ to the wedding etc. because they could ‘get it’ just from the style of the invitations.
d. Use the same graphics for your wedding website or blog.
e. Create a graphic representation of the bride and groom–do this by using specific fonts to write out names, create a monogram with initials, or illustrate the bride and groom like I did–we used paper to collage ours. Simple.
f. Repeat key graphic elements on all of your materials. For us, collaged figurines and a collage of our cat, Luda, adorned all of our printed materials.
a. Our cake designer made our collaged figures out of candy to adorn the cake.
3. CHOOSE COLORS AND THEN HAVE FUN WITH THEM
Photo by Zachary Rosencrantz
a. Pick a color scheme, but don’t be rigid. For flowers, bridal party outfits and other details, we went with our color scheme of marigold and grey. But by not being too rigid about the color scheme (we asked our party to wear what ever they wanted in grey and yellow)–we got all shades (and pops of blues and reds) that gave out wedding texture and personality.
That’s all for now–more on the wedding soon!
xx-J
Love, love, love it! Love all the elements you incorporated into your invitations – so cool!
Your wedding looks insanely awesome – I love the design themes incorporated throughout
Can’t wait to see more!!!!
Thank you! It was so much fun–excited to see the pics when they get back from photographer’s! Can’t wait to share!
love love love!
awesome, the last photo! i love the color scheme on weddings and from what i see, the girls have added a scent of 80 in it, too. very pretty!
Yes! Totally! And those were on the groom’s side (my how husband’s ‘breast men’
just wait till you see the bridesmaids!
Um Justina, your wedding graphics and everything look so fab. I’m assuming you did the little illustrations / paper cutouts yourself? if not, who did ‘em? Would love to find out. I think I need to hire you to do something for me. I’ll just make up a project because those graphics are so ridiculously fun/cute.
Awww so sweet! I did do them myself–paper cutouts and then scanned and worked in photoshop to add lettering etc. So glad you like!!