Another wedding present dodge for a work friend!

 

When I asked the bride what she wanted for her invites, she said she didn't care as long as her and her fiance's parents' wedding photos featured somewhere on the invitation.  She didn't mind about the size or anything and pretty much gave me free reign on the invitation. 

 

I am frivolous in so many ways; clothes, shoes, hats, household... but I cannot agree with couples spending extortionate amounts on wedding invites.  Apart from her and his mother, granny, possibly family members and guests that may be getting married in the near future, nobody really keeps invitations.  You may as well take cold, hard cash and chuck it in the bin.  I remember being in a paper shop with a bride-friend about 7 years ago having a stand-up row over envelopes.  She wanted off white, perlised envelopes at €1.20 per envelope. I wanted cheap, white, standard envelopes. She refused to budge until I pointed out that she was sending out 160+ invitations.  Money in the bin.  These invitations are sized up to fit into a DL sized envelope, cheap as chips in your local stationery shop [or nicked from office supplies, ahem...]

 

I wanted to learn how to quill, but was putting it off.  I figured that this was as good a time as any to learn!  Many evenings over Christmas were spent beside the fire with strips of paper and glue, building paper walls and filling gaps with rolled up pieces of paper.  The image below is the piece in its entirety, photographed out in the back garden on a very frosty morning.  The blue tone worked nicely with the colour of the bridesmaids dresses, luckily enough.

 

On closer inspection, I felt that the groom's name was getting lost in the decorative ampersand.  I clone stamped the names of the bride and groom out and replaced them with text in Illustrator.  I had hoped not to do it, but it was the right call to make.

 

The image on the rear is a ghosted version of the main image.

 

With the wedding being on a Sunday and a Bank Holiday Weekend, the bride included names and numbers for hair and beauty to go with the directions to the church and the wedding reception.

 

 

The bride and groom are both teachers and wanted an evening invitation for staff of their respective schools.  In my school, invitations go up on the general white board, so I thought an A4 poster with the same look as the invitations would work well.