It’s not often I get to collaborate with my son on a design job, but Aaron and I put our heads together a few months ago to create the wedding invitations for my other son, Simon!
He and Jane will marry in Lucca, Italy later this year, so ‘an Italian theme with a link to music, theatre, movies’ was the brief. The red and green colour combo seemed obligatory from the start. It is fair to say our client turned down a good number of concepts before going for this final design by Aaron.
His dad wasn’t totally useless in this production, however, having been responsible for the selection of paper stock, envelopes and a suitable letterpress printer for the job – 300gsm Conqueror Oyster, Conqueror Contour Oyster, and Windill Printers, Aberdeen respectively – resulting in the invitations having a wonderfully tactile feel. The labels for the envelopes had to be printed cream to match, and these were all handlettered (then stamped and posted) by yours truly. All in all, a good team effort.
Anyone out there looking for wedding invitations? If so, I’ll give you Aaron’s address!