My friend Lisa got married this past weekend on a sunny beach in Mexico. Sadly, I was not able to be there in person, though I did have the delight of making her wedding invitations.
Lisa wanted to continue on with the travel theme that had permeated her save the dates and shower invitations and mused with me over the idea of them resembling passport or boarding passes. I decided to give the boarding passes a go. A web search informed me that not only had they been done before, boarding pass invitations were a well established thing for destination weddings. I was sort of bummed about that. It’s always nice to feel that your approach is innovative, you know? But I soothed myself with the knowledge that boarding pass invitations had never been done by me and this was a nice opportunity to take a popular idea and make it fresh, unique and related to my friend’s established wedding theme. I like the opportunity to rise to a challenge.
The sunset-beach-with-palm-trees design made its way into all of Lisa’s invitations in one form or another. We kept the same color scheme and fonts throughout each piece. In the end, each part was unique unto itself, but fit nicely into a collection.
I might not have been at the wedding in the flesh, but a whole lot of me was fused into these invitations. Somehow that eases the sting of the December wind on my face while my childhood friend celebrates a new beginning within the rich, warm air of Mexico.
deep blue sea 