With this ticket I thee wed…

I have wanted to post this 2006 wedding invitation piece for some time. Please check back on this post, since I will be updating its description in the next passing weeks. I consider this piece one of my best works. To give you some history on it, this invite was for a couple to whom I am related to the bride. The groom owns his own movie production company and we have become very good friends as well as business associates. The couple chose to get married in a great old movie theater. Perfect setting, perfect concept to jump off from…

the cover

This is an actual shot of the happy couple staring at lights outside my house. I cut and layered them into a photo of an old theater. I redrew the text and movie sign itself carefully in Adobe Illustrator and brought it together in Photoshop with some other modifications.

main interior page

The piece opens upwards revealing the main interior page. This page's image was achieved by photographing the couple sitting on my couch and bringing in theater chairs from stock. I added a screen texture for the background and used a light drop-shadow to blur the text a bit to create a look of old movie credits.

map insert

I originally wanted this to be in an unachieved third fold—unfortunatley this was restricted by the printer. The map carries through the look of an early movie theater.

the RSVP

Arguably the part that turned out best. This RSVP ticket was a tear-off mailable piece. Already stamped on the reverse side, this ticket postcard achieved a +90% attending rate.


Fonts used in this piece:

Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk BE
Rosewood
Snell Roundhand (modified)