The invitations are ready to go!

My mother, Acia, should be a professional invitation designer. If that even is the correct terminology for that sort of profession. She is so talented that she handmade and designed our wedding invitation with a 2000 version of Microsoft Publisher. She is truly the bomb.com. Designing our wedding invitations starts out with a journey to Hollo’s PaperCraft. I found out about Hollo’s through my cousin Sarah’s wedding. She had bought all our her paper there for her programs and menus there. So when I knew that my mom was going to make our invitations I knew that Hollo’s was the place to go. Phil and I first checked out Hollo’s by ourselves and it was scary. Hollo’s has a lot of paper in the store. It is literally like a warehouse of paper, envelopes, and odds and ends of art supplies. Phil and I tackled the challenge of Hollo’s with our color swatches in our hands and a mission to find the perfect match. We failed miserably at this mission. Not one piece of hundreds of shades of paper matched our “sea foam green” color. Well I just lied, we found a 5 cent business size envelope that was a perfect match…but this envelope was completely useless.

So we had to go to plan B, choose a gold invitation and bring in the “seafoam” color in with an art deco pattern. Phil and I then I picked out a pocket invitation we liked. On Etsy you can buy digital paper packs. A digital paper pack is when graphic designers make cool patterns in different colors and sell them on Etsy. You can use them for anything from scrapbooks to of course you guessed it, invitations. Luckily I found a few art deco packs in my wedding colors. Based on what pattern looked the best printed out we chose the design that you saw on the invitation. Then it was the journey of choosing the font. I am a trademark attorney so I look at a bunch of different kinds of fonts weekly. So I knew from the beginning that this journey of finding the correct font could be a long one. But luckily due to my mother’s talents in Google searching and following instructions on how to use free fonts, she found a variety of fonts to choose from. Then it was easy to pick my favorite two that looked the best together. I explained to her on how I wanted the invitation to be designed and she executed my vision with perfection. I truly love our invitations so much I probably will frame them. If you are thinking if you want to hire Acia to design your invitations for your next special event you are going to have to ask her yourself.