Wedding Invitation for me & some Lady…

So a couple weeks ago I done gone git’ married to my amazing girlfriend of 6 years, Kristin Dorage down in her hometown of Atlanta, GA.  It was a blast and a large relief once it was over.  A culmination of a years worth of stress and planning.  Being an illustrator/designer it was only natural that I design my own wedding invitation.  I had done wedding invitations before as well as a couple wedding “concert posters” and kind of had an idea of what I wanted to do for ours.  Our wedding would be pretty low-key, outdoors and the reception would take place at this sweet French-burlesque type club called Paris on Ponce.  I got a great old timey, rag-time style band, Blair Crimmins & the Hookers, and that esthetic seemed to bleed into everything we did.

After looking at a ton of invitations online I decided to do a tri-fold with the center being the main image and the text on either side and was influenced by the layout of an invitation designer Elizabeth Baddeley had made for her own wedding.  I soon found out that designing stuff for your own wedding is about 10x harder than for someone else.  One becomes too much of a perfectionist.  I must have gone through 15+ concepts but finally landed on the “musical field mice”.

I wanted the invitation to be colorful, fun, boisterous and express the vibe and imagery that we wanted people to think of… sunny green grass, broken banjo strings, shoeless dancing, bourbon-spiked sweet tea, loud brass, late night boas, etc…

Along with the invitation I made a slew of knick-knacks like pins that people couple snag and wear.  2 of the pins were field mice from the invite and the other 2 were our faces taken from our “Save the Date” card which I had made at Purebuttons.