My colleague and friend Maria is a designer. She has her regular day job, and then on the side she has a business designing fun, creative things like wedding invitations.
She made the cutest Save the Date (or STD, which quite amuses me) cards for Jenny, who got engaged just before Christmas. I might ask her if I can post hers, actually, because they are so cool.
Anyway, when I got engaged, Maria asked if I'd like her to design my invitations. I had considered doing them myself, to save money. But she has great design sense, and I think it's important to support designers, I really do. So I told her that as long as she is fair - to herself, not just to me - I would be happy to hire her to design them.
She asked what my colors were, which made me realize I'm the least bride-y bride around. Colors?
The only ones that came to mind were "blush and bashful" - but does anyone actually picture me in a big ole' Southern frou-frou wedding? Not so much.
So I said "Um. I like orange. And fuchsia."
Because I do.
So she offered to do the layout for the magnets, using the same colors and font that she'll use for the invites.
She gave me these to review.
What do you think?
Monday, March 17, 2008
Save the date!
We are choosing among the following three designs for our magnets.
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Love them!
ReplyDeleteWhere did you find the photo booth?
My vote goes for the one in the middle.
ReplyDeleteAll 3 are way too cute though!!!
LOVE the idea!
Kerrie - we wound up cheating. The magnet site Maria forwarded me said not to use photos from a photo booth because of quality. And Maria said there would be a HUGE qualitative difference, whereas she could Photoshop them (or whatever she used) to look like a film strip. I was pretty firm on doing it authentically, but it got to be such a hassle, and I love how they look.
ReplyDeleteBeach Bum - Thanks for your input! I'm so pleased with them! :)
Awesome! So cute. :-)
ReplyDeleteI like the middle one the best. It has a carefree-ness / playful-ness to it that I really like.
I'm so happy for you.
-vvk
All are beautiful, but my vote goes for the middle one as well!
ReplyDeleteYou're ADORABLE. These are so fun and lighthearted. I'd pick the middle one.
ReplyDeleteYay wedding!
LOVE it! What a great idea. I vote for number three. I think it looks so polished and cute!
ReplyDeleteI liked 3 best as well. Fun, yet balanced. All of them are cute though; you really can't go wrong!
ReplyDeletei like them all! i think i prefer 2, then 3, the the 1st one. love the pics on an angle!
ReplyDeleteI prefer the first one! all adorable
ReplyDeleteI like the middle one too. and fuschia and orange for an almost fall wedding??
ReplyDeleteSo pretty. yummy. fun. light. springy (as in bouncy) and lisa-ey.
me likey.
I'm gonna go against the curve here and say that I like the first one.
ReplyDeleteI'm all orderly like that.
I'm with Matt -- I like the first one. But they're all really cute.
ReplyDeleteOh, and as for the colors, I say go for it. One of my best friends used green and orange for her wedding. And not soft sage-y green or peach-y orange -- kelly green and bright orange-y orange. And it was absolutely gorgeous and original.
ReplyDeletePut me down for the middle one too.
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ReplyDeleteAdorable! Yall are a really sweet couple. Your colors are great - very lively.
ReplyDeleteHave fun with the design process!
I like the middle one, too. It fits you two the best, I think. It's that offness that is both of you, and also is adorable, fun and silly. I love the idea.
ReplyDeleteMy vote is for #3. The slant makes it look fun, but it's not overlapping with the wording either.
ReplyDeleteVVK - Thank you, my friend! I like that you see it as carefree and playful!
ReplyDeleteAlexandra - Excellent - thanks!
Nicole - Awww, thank you! Yay, wedding!
The Ex - Thanks - wow, first for #3!
Susan - Thanks! I'm going to pass all these comments on to Maria - so nice!
MrsMac - I got to love the angle pics too!
Brett - Thank you!
Slightly Disorganized - Thank you, my sweet! And I'm trying to ignore the fact that it's an almost fall wedding. Nick didn't want to be hot- otherwise I'd have done it in the dead of summer. And I didn't want to be cold. But I love happy colors!
Matt - That was originally my fave, and the second was Nick's.
Wendy - Thank you! Those are probably my two favorite colors, and I'm really happy to be using them!
Steve - Will do! Middle one is winning by far!
HKW - Oh, thank you! So nice!
Janie - Ahh, thank you! That's such a nice way to put it!
Amisare - Thanks for your input!
"Your colors are pink and pink." Yay for a Steel Magnolias reference! I love this idea. :-)
ReplyDeleteThose are so adorable! The colors are so lively and fun and show you're having fun with the process - i.e. no bridzilla!
ReplyDeleteI like the first one.
haha you're even more awesome for the "blush and bashful" reference. whenever i hear about someone's "wedding colors" that line pops into my head.
ReplyDeletei like the stds ("std" heeheeheehe) a lot. very cute!
maria is very talented. those passport stds were awesome.
haha you're even more awesome for the "blush and bashful" reference. whenever i hear about someone's "wedding colors" that line pops into my head.
ReplyDeletei like the stds ("std" heeheeheehe) a lot. very cute!
maria is very talented. those passport stds were awesome.
sorry for the double post =/
ReplyDeleteJust another thought- why not do all 3 and send them out at random? Then they could become like trading cards. "Which one did you get? But I wanted that one! Trade ya?"
ReplyDeleteI like #2 best.
ReplyDeleteI wish people would ask me to design their STDs for them!!
Um, I vote for the middle one as well
ReplyDeleteBut I would also like to point out that the ampersand looks like an Onion to me. That might not be a bad thing