wedding invites.

my friends myles and brooke got married in blue hill in late august and asked me to make wedding invitations for them. this was something i had never done before (people are always asking me if i've ever done wedding invitations and i always just say no) and had never bothered to really try to get into but i figured i'd rather have them get me do it than some random person who didn't know them.

they wanted invites that would fold open from the middle. we came up with a kind of forest theme on the outside & then a meadow kind of setting on the inside. i thought 'no problem!' uh...

anyway, to be perfectly honest the whole time i was drawing this it didn't look good enough to me. i think part of the reason is that i was doing this job for my good friends & i really didn't want to think of the wedding as the wedding i made those weird looking invites. i ended up walking around the woods a bit & practicing drawing trees & ferns better. but i knew i was doing my best & that i should trust my gut & that it would all make sense when it was done. when i printed out the first prototype, i was very pleasantly surprised... i am always a happy camper when i am unsure of something for a bit & just trust my gut & believe that it'll look ok in the end.


here's how the invitation looked when you took it out of the envelope (sorry about my finger):


here's the outside all folded out:




then when you open it up it looks like this:



these invitations were printed on old green speckletone french paper cardstock & had matching old green speckletone envelopes.
this was the last job printed on my EPSON CX3810 which has faithfully served me for 5 years. if you have any kind of card from me from the past few years up until this fall that isn't screenprinted it was printed by the 3810 and handcut by myself. i guess 5 years is a lot to ask from a printer you put to the limit almost everyday! i literally drove this thing to the ground.

i disassembled the CX3810 to see if it was worth saving (it was not) & i salvaged some interesting parts. the motherboard is hanging on the wall in my studio. now i have a WORKFORCE 600 which is a lot more serious than the 3810. it doesn't laugh at my jokes.

anyway, i now am ready & willing to do wedding invitations. just get in touch.

ALSO: i am also going to start painting walls with latex housepaint & acrylics. let me know if this interests you.