Font Friday: Our Wedding Invitations
I have an extra awesome font friday for you today! I was inspired by Steph’s post last week about the fonts she has used in her wedding invitations so I thought I would share with you our own invitations! I’m a big typography fan so I wanted our invitation to be more like a typographic print than an invitation. I was inspired by vintage posters and letterpress so I brought in a slightly modern twist on that concept. I used stripes in a lot of other collateral on the day so I was keen to bring it into the design of the invites too. If you head on over to Magnolia Rouge the lovely Kate has featured a few shots from our big day so you can see the whole shebang. Thanks Kate!
In the visuals below I’ve used 5 different fonts. They are Blair ITC, Didot, Creampuff, Bebas and Parfait Script. I love the combo of serif, sans serif and script fonts so it was without question that I would use a number of fonts for the invitation design!
Here are a few snaps that I took while putting everything together…
The picture of us on the RSVP was taken by the talented team at icandy who did our engagement shoot which you can see here.
The assembly process!
Ready to go…
Once I had designed the invites I wanted to create a small thank you card that guests could take home with them that followed the same look and feel as the invites. I decided to incorporate the thank you card into the table name cards. (I’ve seen lots of different variations of the copy that I used for the thank you note so if anyone has an original source please let me know!)
The 2 images below were taken by the talented team at Alpine Images.
I hope you enjoyed this week’s font friday (I think that might be the longest post I’ve ever done?!) You can see more great font friday picks on these wonderful blogs Lauren Elise Crafted, The Aerialist Press, Blush Printables, Brancoprata, Bubblerock, Fourth & Folded, Hank + Hunt, The Knotty Bride, Litte Bit Heart, Palm Papers and Super Swoon!
All designs and images are copyright of designer Alison Owen
Beautiful invitations! Love the colours, fonts and the words. Beautiful!
Gorgeous!! And I love that you used 5 different fonts… the perfect mix!
Oh how I love the idea of place cards coupled with thank you note. This is just so sweet… I loved the work you did on your wedding invitations and stationery… It’s really cool… But really never was expecting less from you 🙂 xo
This looks amazing! Really great job.
OH MY! Great front choice and beautiful invites!!
This is just too gorgeous. I LOVE everything about this.
In love- these are awesome Alison! What a great idea Steph had… so fun to see what my #fontfriday girls did with their wedding invitations 🙂
Thanks ladies! :))
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