Yet a couple may want to have their own idea and concept for designing the wedding invitation. A question follows this notion will be if there is any formula to generate these ideas. The answer is yes and no, because there is no such formula in the view of design. However, there are some methodologies that we can follow to make a beautiful and unique wedding invitation. These methodologies are namely to make it grand, use ready made concepts, and to the abstract.
Making it grand is the most common way to design a wedding invitation. Every detail has to be very nice looking, and it mainly connects with the elements and printing processes adopted in the wedding invitation card. Some common elements that will be used are vine patterns in Victorian style, Monograms, or even the word double happiness in the context of Chinese wedding invitation. These elements are used to create a sense of nobleness.
To facilitate this sense of nobleness process such as hot stamping, embossing, engraving, and die-cutting will be adopted. The material used will be paper with sparkling effect. The key of making this wedding invitation look nice will be the way of composing the patterns and the combination of different printing process described. Indeed, this kind of design is material and process oriented. One may even feel that the more processes and material is involved, then the better the design.
Of course, the cost of the card will be higher in this case. To make a wedding invitation, a couple has to research on different monograms and patterns to fit their needs. There are plenty of books about this patterns and one good thing is that most patterns in these books are royalty free. Couples can apply these patterns directly to their wedding invitation card design. If they have knowledge in image processing software, then they can even make the design themselves and have a print shop to print them out.
The notion of ready made concepts does not necessarily mean it is not unique. The true meaning here is picking some ideas and items we see everyday and transform them to wedding invitations. In Hong Kong, there has been wedding invitation design trying to imitate a passport. This is an interesting and creative concept indeed, because the couple can put their photos in this passport. They can even put their story, such as how they met, when they became boy and girl friends in this passport. The wedding invitation is not only an invitation, but also a story book which tells the story of the couple.
Another idea is an air ticket, an air ticket may not be as romantic as the passport since there may not be enough space for telling the stories. However, it is very interesting in sense that a guest gets a ticket, and with this ticket they can attend the wedding ceremony. At this point, it will not be surprising to think of a wedding invitation in the form of a sculpture, or to be more exact, a three dimensional piece of wedding invitation. Some wedding invitation providers provide glass bottles as wedding invitations. The only concern for this kind of wedding invitation may cost a couple a lot when they try to mail them out. Couples can just observe and make their own unique wedding invitation.
Doing the abstract is the most difficult concept for wedding invitation design. The concept of the wedding invitation is more abstract, but there will be much more meaning in this kind of wedding invitation. However, starting from the day of marriage, they become one unit and everything is united together as one.
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