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Ryan and Melissa Wedding Invitation
Production Method
Inkjet
Design
Melissa Wehrman
Printing
Melissa Wehrman
Knock knock, who’s there? A fanciful and fun invitation to a casual country wedding. Orange you glad I didn’t say banana?
Client
Self
Quantity Produced
250
Production Cost
Under $400
Production Time
–
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
–
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Strathmore Drawing paper
Vellum Bristol paper
Number of Colors
CMYK
Varnishes
–
Binding
Save the date: Hand-sewn
Typography
Archer
Gotham
hand-lettering
Project Description
With a huge family and growing guest-list, our wedding stationery became one of the main areas we scrimped and saved by making them ourselves on my horribly cheap inkjet printer. But by using fancy Bristol paper bought in bulk and hand-cut to feed through the printer, the colors remained brilliant and the pieces still looked professional.We really approached our entire wedding as a whimsical, fun, goofy, big party and that was really reflected in our stationery by the color, the hand-lettering and illustrations, and the quirky copy writing. In the end, I feel like the hand-made nature of the invitations and entire wedding package, really added to the country Ohio laid-back feel that I was going for.
Production Lesson(s)
Printing on Bristol board is obviously a risk since it could easily kill your printer... but being that mine was already 5+ years old, I kinda was hoping it would break! Instead, I learned that ordering smooth Bristol was asking for paper jams while the vellum actually fed quite easily.
Post Author
Kelly Cree
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
April 2, 2012
Filed Under
Inkjet
V1 to V2
Wedding materials
Tagged with
hand lettering
hand stitched
interactive
mad lib
orange
wedding
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