The Invites Are Out!

If you are reading this site, then the above should look familiar to you, as by now, you will have already got one of these in the mail.

The invitations were a tag team effort: Stephanie with the wording, hand addressing (my penmanship is not that neat! ;-) and design tweaking; and myself with the graphic design, layout and printing (oh the printing!). We both picked out the colours for the papery.

Initially we tossed around a few ideas for the wedding, but as we have a relatively short engagement, our options were limited. Eventually a theme just kinda organically developed as we began to make some choices in venue, etc. In the end we went with a retro, "elegant simplicity" theme for the invitations. The fonts used are vintage 1920's and 1930's fonts, and the graphic was of a 1920's bride. The colours: the tan parchment, black text and the most commented thing, the black envelope, are very monochrome, elegant and evocative of a simpler time.

In a way it is fitting, as Stephanie and my first date was dinner and the watching of the 1950 black and white movie, Harvey. Yes we are both old movie buffs and yes there is a blasphemous colour version of Harvey, though Steph rightly held out to rent the superior black and white version! It's little things like that that helped me decide to marry her! ;-)

--The Groom