Guest Blogger, Christina Carnevale, Paper Rock Scissors
Christina Carnevale is a professional designer and owner of Paper Rock Scissors, a design firm located in Conshohocken, PA dedicated to creating original invitations and announcements for weddings, mitzvahs, corporate parties, and all other special events.
As Winter is
blasting us with its bitterness, Spring and Summer weddings are sitting on the
horizon, just waiting to be announced. Invitations have become the method
by which couples introduce their guests to the overall theme, design, or colors
of the wedding, often incorporating elements that will be used at the wedding
ceremony and/or reception. We’re seeing less and less of the “ivory card
with black writing” invitation and watching our clients move into a fully
designed invitation suite that truly reflects the theme of the event, and
often, the personal style of the couple.
Since we begin
booking clients for 2012 weddings in mid-2011, we start to see invitation
trends earlier than many companies. As a result, we’re seeing the
following trends forming for 2012, and we’re happy to share them with you.
A Continuation of
Jewel Tones
After the Royal
Wedding, we began to see an infusion of jewel tones into many weddings.
Unlike the Royal Wedding invitations, which were a traditional ivory with a
gold gilt edge, we’re seeing brides who are incorporating the jewel tones
into their actual invitations, choosing papers and ribbons that are deeply
saturated with color. Whether or not you choose to combine two jewel
tones together, or simply ground your color with the jewel tone and add a
brighter “pop,” you can’t go wrong with the luxe look of Jewel Tones.
Cobalt and Coral
Cobalt provides a
backdrop to this invitation, while the coral ribbon and patterned paper gives
it that pop of color.
Ruby and Gold
Ruby and Gold is
always a beautiful mix of colors.
Whether the wedding be in December or July, using red and gold is a
sure-fire way to add a bit of luxury to your wedding.
Blue Topaz and
Gold
Blue Topaz
(tiffany blue) paired with a gold grounds the color and focuses the eye on the
important details that are accented and backed in the blue.
Sapphire and Hot
Pink
Sapphire and Hot
Pink is a popular combination for both ballroom weddings as well as beach
weddings. Depending on the colors that
are used in the ink and in the pocket, an invitation can range from formal to
fun. The hot pink adds just the right
amount pizzazz.
Handwritten
Calligraphy
I’ve said it
before in blog posts, and I’ll say it again. There is nothing more formal
that receiving an invitation with a handwritten guest name and address on
it. We’re seeing more and more brides return to the basic of handwritten
envelopes, and we are excited about it. When a piece of mail comes in
that has been handwritten, it’s a show stopper…particularly, beautiful
calligraphy on a lovely envelope.
Though we do
quite a lot of work with traditional calligraphy styles, we’re also seeing more
free-flowing calligraphy styles used on envelopes. Brides are looking for
something original and not so cookie-cutter, so a more unstructured script is
appealing. We are also seeing the use of white, silver, and gold inks on
darker envelopes (again, going back to jewel tones) which gives the invitation
a different look immediately upon receipt by your guest.
Whether you love
the ideas of the trends we’re seeing, or if you are looking for something
completely different, think about how you can make your invitation part of your
overall design aesthetic for the event. The possibilities only end where
your ideas do! We here at Paper Rock Scissors are happy to help should
you require professional assistance in designing your very own ensemble.
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