The Warjris
When Freda approached me sometime middle of last year to design her wedding invitation cards, I was ecstatic! Not only I get to design my first wedding invitation appointment, but I also get to design it for my good friend! How cool is that :)
On the design, Freda already knew what she wanted: ’simple’ and ‘elegant’. She was still deciding between blue and/or green for the card then, so I saved lots of pictures that had awesome blue and green shades to ‘pick’ colors later.
The green & blue shade that I used for Freda’s cards
Since she didn’t have any preference on the size of the card, I suggested an A5 size (half of an A4 paper), where we can open vertically (top-bottom). No doubt it would have been awesome to have a custom size, but nonetheless the main reason behind the A5 size is convenience.
Since she planned on printing her own cards, Freda can print two wedding cards (back-to-back) on 1 A4 paper, simply by changing the feature in the printing options ‘2 pages per sheet’.With a paper cutter, she can conveniently slide the paper right to the middle, slice it and on to the next one (though in reality, she cut her cards using a pen knife! Whaaaaaaaaatt).
(side track: if you send a design to an established printing press, you are charged more for having a custom-sized paper. But not if you’re using standard size, like A4, A5, A3, etc.)
The wedding invitation card
When Freda mentioned elegance, I knew that the font will play a huge role in exuding this element. When both of the couple’s names were capitalized, by using the right font (in this case, GeoSansLight), the lean-ness of the letters were fully taken advantaged (in a positive way) to the max!
She also mentioned on having ‘freda heart vaughn’ at the front cover. So instead of having GeoSansLight (I did try…but it looks weird with the love-shape, tsk), I used the beloved Century Gothic to emphasize the circular perimeter of the letters. It worked well and it totally matched with the love-shape, smacked right in the middle! Gives a little ‘awwww’ feeling, don’t you think?
The type of paper is the shiny-kind, so that made the card looked even more elegant. Oh hey, Freda designed her own RSVP cards, how cool is that! :)
When it came to the wedding program, Freda had something in mind which involved 3 layers of papers (one on top of the other); cover, wedding program and thanks.
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and it became like this…
Taken by Nathan Loo Photography
I also had an opportunity to make the couple’s video, shown during the Reception. It was my first time doing a video for a wedding reception (and probably my last, hahahaha…I’m not cut out for videos!).
I’m glad that I was able to help in the graphic design area for Freda and Vaughn’s wedding. The fact that I get to do something that I love for people that I adore is just pure blessing! :)
Hope this will not be my last wedding design :)