DMdesign do not design wedding invitations….but when you are a graphic designer and your sister is the bride-to-be (and owner of DMpr, our sister company!!), and you’re asked to design an unusual wedding invitation it’s a different story. In fact it was an honour to do it. Christine and her smashing husband to be, Kenny, will marry 2 weeks from today. The easiest clients in the world gave me a blank canvas to design their wedding invitations. It was a dream to work with photographs taken by Keith and Evelyn Woodard from Killarney with concept and direction of shoot by the bride-to-be. It’s amazing what can be done with a €30 wedding dress from a vintage store, a net curtain for a veil, a pair of wellingtons, a rowing boat and a handsome couple. And the setting….the lakes of Killarney on a sunny day (a rare sight you might say). Tourists gathered around during the shoot and congratulated Christine and Kenny on their wedding day!! “Oh, you guys look so cute” (spoken in your best American accent). I’m sure they went home to tell their friends about the Irish bride in wellingtons at the lakes of Killarney.
It was an engagement shoot with a difference. Kenny is a rower and the concept was to have Christine pulling him ashore in time for the wedding – after years of coming up with creative concepts for her clients, it was easy for Christine to pull one together for herself. So with these amazing results to work with, the first thing I did was change the colour pictures to sepia to give a classic old world style. Colours and type were chosen carefully. The suite included a wedding invitation, DL size with a folding flap in the front to hold the RSVP and a card with directions and accomodation details and a DL evening invitation similar to the wedding invitation. Over many years of trial and error I have managed to create a CMYK gold, this avoids printing a spot gold (printing spot gold increases the print costs). The printing was beautifully finished by Allied Print on Challenger offset and sealed in a gorgeous conqueror envelope….divine.
Christine and Kenny told me they were inundated with compliments on the wedding stationery….some commented they ‘were out of this world’, and unlike anything else they had ever seen. As I am a perfectionist it’s rare to complete a design that I am 100% happy with but I loved this project and it proves when a designer is left to do what they do best, the results are always better.
A successful wedding project and not a bridezilla in sight!
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