Shannon + Aaron:Art Nouveau Inspired

Shannon’s boxed invitation design all started with her dress. The gorgeous embroidered design in a beautiful color scheme is the inspiration for her entire wedding. When we started the designs, I did some rose graphics, but they just weren’t “it”. Then Shannon and Aaron mentioned that they liked Art Deco – which was also apparent from the fonts they had chosen. I decided to send something more Art Nouveau to go along with Shannon’s dress – we had a winner.



I used a different graphic on each of Shannon’s pieces. These invitations became the most labor intensive invitations to date. Each of her four pieces is layered with black behind the pearl cardstock. So each insert is two layers of 110# cardstock and uber thick. Then every piece has rounded corners.

A long piece of thick satin ribbon is wrapped around the invitation and twisted around on the front. It creates a sash on the back to hold the inserts in place.

Then each package is placed inside my new box mailers. I designed another graphic for the address wraps and I designed two coordinating custom stamps for the invitation box.

When Shannon picked these up on Friday, she commented how much work went into these. We started with something so different than the final result and took many turns over the months. Shannon and Aaron were so wonderful considering they never saw the boxes or color first hand.