In the beginning, it was just a cake.
As most brides do, Bre started her wedding planning online. She found an image of a cake that she fell in love with. That cake design became the inspiration for her whole wedding, both is color and style. She shared this image with me so I could see her vision. I love wedding cake and I love when someone can take an idea and see how that would work for the bigger picture. Bre did a beautiful job with that.
For Bre and Steve’s wedding, I was able to create their entire wedding stationery suite, from their save-the-dates to their thank-you cards. I enjoy working on designs for clients and Bre loved sharing the process with me. It was fun to have Bre’s image of the cake and to know her ideas. This gave me a great starting point when working on designs.
Typically, I mock up several custom designs for a project. With Bre’s save-the-dates, we decided on using both a magnet and a flat card that would be inserted into an envelope. We went this route to have both a magnet people could hang on their refrigerator as well as a card that would provide more information about hotel reservations for out-of-town guests.
Bre and I worked through a couple rounds of options to create the two pieces so they would fit together in style. One of Bre’s favorite details was the pearl paper stock that I used for the flat card. The pearl sheen matched the pearl of her wedding palette and helped solidify her theme. This is a feature I continued through her suite.
With the save-the-dates created, I was able to carry the design elements forward to Bre’s other stationery pieces. The formal wedding invitations and response cards used coordinating colors, fonts and designs.
After the wedding, we decided to do the thank-you cards as a postcard. While keeping some of the same design elements for consistency, I also made sure to change some to work with the image and to keep the design fresh.
Having a coordinated wedding stationery suite elevates each of the individual pieces. When guests see the custom details, they know care and thought went into planning the whole event. And Bre certainly planned an incredible event!
