Ever since I was in school, I always loved making invitations for events. My friends would always say that when they get married they want me to make the invitations for them. True enough I made their wedding invitations. I found some pictures in my multiply album but the picture resolution is low. Some I’ve reprinted and took pictures using my old SE w800i but the lighting here is quite low so the pics are just decent.
Vince and Mimie's Wedding Invitation
Vince and Mimie
This is Sir Vince and Mimie’s wedding invitation. I was just told they want pastel colors with flowers. They didn’t have a specific design in mind. Not even the type of flower. So I just took a picture of a flower and colorized it 4x. Here’s the result. When you open the front flap you’ll see the main invitation, the bridal entourage and their dedications in the four sheets inside and each sheet vary in length to see the colored edges.
The invitation picture was actually taken by me when I reprinted it here because that’s how I originally designed it. Not sure if they have te font I used when they printed these because the invitation I received used a different font. It’s still nice but I like this font better. =) Also, they used a lavender ribbon and since I don’t have one here at home I just used a pink one. A light yellow or light green ribbon will also look good, I think…
Jonahlayne and Bryan's Wedding Invitation
Jonahlayne and Bryan
The first in our group to get married. One of my closest friend absolutely loves the color GREEN (and this is one of my least fave). She told me she wanted something unique — one she hasn’t seen in invitations she received yet. Not the “typical” invitations you place in an envelope. That’s what she said. And she wants her invitation to have 7 sheets with 7 shades of green. That’s aside from the main invitation… I was shocked. She followed that up with saying she has 17 ninongs and ninangs and 17 groomsmen and bridesmaids. 17 is an important number for them and they’re getting married on a 17 (Nov. 17). I was thinking, was there ever a marriage ceremony with this number of people involved? She then topped it off with the number of invitations she wants me to make: 200!
My friends and I shared payment for the materials, as well as, the shipping of invitations. But since we’re working in different cities, I only had help from our other friend, Leah, who works with me that time. My officemate, Mama Sarah, lent us the printer to use. We just bought new ink for the printer.
Looking for the board/papers to use was so troublesome. It would’ve been ok if we’re only going to make a few. But now, that’s 200 invitations for us with probably 8 sheets each. Bookstores in CDO don’t carry that much stock (rather, the number of we need). We found some but they only have less than 10 packs left. We needed more than that. I actually wished I can go to Manila to look for stuff, but we were running out of time. I tried calling paper suppliers and they did confirm that they don’t carry much stock on a particular paper type. If I want to order, I’ll have to do much waiting and time isn’t on our side. Until I found new stocks in an old mall’s school supplies section. I purchased all the packs of green and white specialty papers they had immediately.
The box-type invitation is in green (dark green bottom, light green top). Looking for the papers to use was difficult and it’s even more difficult to look for seven shades of green. What I did was to print the main invitation in green and the bridal entourage and other stuff in white (with a different shade of green for the corners).
The picture of the invitation above was taken from my old phone before the invitations were shipped to Davao. The other pictures were from Jonah and Bryan’s wedding album.
I don’t want to make another one like this (well, not in the range of 200 pieces). This was so tiring because Leah has trouble working with straight edges I had to do all the cutting. =(
Dioven and Lorelie's Wedding Invitation
Dioven and Lorelie
This wasn’t so difficult to make. I only have to make 75 pieces. Of course, Lorelie said she wanted something different from Jonah’s box-type invitation. But just like VMG and Jonah, I have to think of what kind of invittion to make. Just like Vince and Mimie’s invitation, she wants flowers and color should be in “sunset gold” which had me exclaim “huh?!”
What shade of yellow does “sunset gold” use? I had trouble searching for that color shade in the internet. Until after further emails she sent me a picture with a color and it turned out to be just — yellow. c”,) She wanted their picture included and that it has got to have flowers. Her choice was quite difficult to research and I ended up using a white rose for the main invitation. The invitation is in a booklet style in light yellow colors with the main invitation (white) inserted in the booklet. We (Leah and me again with the help of our housemates and an officemate, Kit) also made pochette envelopes in parchment paper for the invitations and tied with a yellow ribbon.
Kim and Glenn's Wedding Invitation
Kim and Glenn
Gracie’s sister, Glenn, got married last year. Gracie was in-charge of the invitation so she asked for my help. Since I was already back home in Davao that time, she just asked me for a layout and they’ll do the printing themselves with a note that I just put detailed instructions on what to do. ^_^
Here’s what I had in mind (I just printed this here). Invitation, entourage and rsvp cards are inserted in a folder. She said color motif is purple. Since I don’t have an idea what kind of paper they’ll be able to buy, I just made the invitation in white except the main invitation where I placed a purple gradient as the background. Layout for the entourage is the same as the main invitation without the purple gradient. I’m not sure about the board they used for the folder but the one I used here is Irish Purple (which we have at home). I wanted to use a darker shade but I don’t think I have that kind of board here. Maybe next time I’ll reprint another one. =)
Leah and Armand's Wedding Invitation
Leah and Armand
This wedding keeps on getting delayed but it finallycame. At first Leah said they don’t have an invitation as the wedding (or solemnization as she said it’s called in SG) will only take a few minutes and they’ll only have a few witnesses. I insisted she has to have one. She helped in making all those invitations before and she gotta have one herself even if it’s just very simple. She can have another not so simple invitation when they get married in Church. And so a week before the wedding she gave me a simple text (just details of where the solemnization will take place and reception). I made several simple layouts and she picked the last one I made. They’re going to print it themselves so I just gave instructions on what paper to use, etc…
I printed my own copy here in photo paper with glitters. I made the envelope also from a light pink specialty paper.
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All in all, I’m glad they all liked the invitations… makes all the hard work and sleepless nights worth it.
There are still other wedding invitations I made but sadly I don’t have the layout files anymore. I don’t even have pictures of them. Oh well, I’ll just try to make other layouts later and post immediately. Which reminds me… I have to make some for my sister (which I’m not fond of making at the moment). She has an invitation design in mind already but I’m quite sure she’ll change it later if she sees another one that captures her fancy. :p
