You are invited

Since the soon-to-be-bride has kept this antsy soon-to-be-groom from making anymore pre-wedding updates, I'll just try to provide some insight on the wedding preparations from here on out and just publish it all after the ceremonies.

There are a lot of things that I want to share with whoever chances upon this blog in hopes of helping you out with your wedding preparations-- or at the very least, to offer some humor on an otherwise extremely stressful (think dandruff and dermatitis attacks) phase in my/ our life/lives. Let's start with the invitations, and how we've come up with our own original look for our wedding.

Going with our chosen theme which is "kiddie/toy land" and being given free hand to conceptualize and pretty much do everything in regards to our wedding invites, I went with something simple yet original: a three-panel Hallmark card type that's easy to understand and comprehend. Don't you just hate wedding invites that have multiple, unattached pages? I know I do, I happened to lose a few pages on a recent invite and ended up being late, not knowing there was a bridal registry and so on.

Fortunately, I'm a bit of a cartoonist so I was able to make a few drawings here and there. The copy part was also made by yours truly but to be quite honest, I'm not THAT convinced that Bridesmaids and Groomsmen should be one-worded, uhm, words.

Hindi ba Bride's Maids? Groom's Men?

I went with a clean look, cover page is the main illustration, back page is a smaller illustration with our initials "A&W" and the wedding date "12.01.12" to make it look classy. Then there's the inside flap with the ATTIRE, RSVP and Location Map of our venue (taken from the Internet):

The inside panels contains the main invite copy, followed by the PRINCIPAL and SECONDARY SPONSORS. We chose to not crowd our wedding with random friends playing several roles. Really, who needs 10 groomsmen or 20 bridesmaids? Hindi naman ako tatakbong konsehal e. Lalo na si Mrs V :)

Of course, this only works if you have a background in advertising and have a working idea of what you want in a wedding invite. If you don't want to spend countless hours conceptualizing, stressing and working on it-- would still suggest to go with the invite printers out there-- there's a lot you can find at wedding fairs that sell at Php 40 an invite (heavily templated of course). Always go for the matte finish because it makes your invite look classier. Glossy ones seem a bit too poster/ magazine-ish (unless you prefer it to be that way).

Credits:

Copy: A. Velasco

Artwork: A. Velasco (basic sketch), Josephine Bunyi (illustration and watercolor)

Layout: Jose Loreto Timog

Printing: Tomas Carunungan of Nitto Printing