In May, Jessica & Steven were married on the Shelby Street Bridge & I’m so excited to share their invitations– they are so cool. I love it when a bride & groom wants to explore some options with their design and reflect their own unique personalities in their paper products. We started work on the invites in the fall, the bride really wanted to incorporate the Nashville skyline, her signature colors (green, green, and more green– with a bit of black) and reflect an elegant affair without being too formal.
Let’s start with the cover: the invite folded to a 5 X5 square with a black paper bellyband, and then closed with a monogram square stamp with their first name initials and the date:
The front cover was accented with a monogram square
The invite itself then folded out (blurring to protect the names of the couple & any pertinent personal information 
The invite folded to three distinct panels
The first panel was the actual event invitation with the Nashville Skyline as the central image: the bride and groom wanted to imbue the image of the skyline to embrace their unique wedding location:
First panel in apple green with the skyline stamp of Nashville
Typography Details: main text is in crisp Garamond Small Caps. The bride wanted something less fussy for the script font, so we went with Palace Script. The skyline is an actual photograph of downtown Nashville that I manipulated in Photoshop to create a stamp that looked as though it had been printed with wood blocking.
The RSVP card utlized the same color scheme and design
The middle panel consisted of directions to the wedding location, directing guests from different areas of town. I ghosted the image of the skyline in the background so that the text could be easily read, and used a dark green font in conjunction with black to work with the color scheme.
The RSVP was a postcard that is perforated from the invite– a fact I love and that made sending in the RSVP so easy. The frontside featured the skyline in the same green as the rest of the invite, and we used a circular “accept/deny” checkbox– a cute little detail.
The perforate and send RSVP card
I used a lighter grayish green for the back of the RSVP card, stamped it with a postcard stamp– much more cost effective than sending regular mail in an envelope, but you need to be sure you meet USPS standard postcard sizes. The same ghost image of Nashville is here, too, so it’s a consistent design element thoroughout the piece, but I used some different shading here- shades of gray (to tie in to the gray-green of the reverse side of the postcard) and white to make the image more crisp. All of the backside text was in the Palace Script.
All in all, these invites were a blast to make. They did come in a bit more expensive to mail because they were a perfect square (which the post office charges more for– grr!) but i think they more than make up for it in their cool composition.
Nice! Though I was seriously confused at first, “since when did Steve and I want a Nashville theme….oh.”