so im getting married....
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- jimzyk
but i have been pressurised by my wife to be to do our wedding invitations.. has anyone else suffered these same pressures without a written brief or any real budget ?
''make it good'' she said....
and i said ''yeah..''any ideas from you guys ?
- Melanie0
wow. your wife is very open minded to let you get married again.
- harlequino0
Demand a concise creative brief, timline of deliverables, a bullet list of benchmarks and expectations, and get at least 40% up front.
- Llyod0
I'm not the one to listen to but I have this advice...
Don't do it. It turns into a nightmare. Especially once you have kids. They're like the superglue of pain.
- MrOneHundred0
Get someone else to do it. That is all.
- i would like to echo that in an echoic fashion fashion fashion_salisae_
- haha. you sound tipsy.MrOneHundred
- Melanie0
Keep it simple. Don't photocopy it.
- SLAZ0
i just got on the same ship... designing my own invitations... "make it pretty, I need a theme to work with".
i got a couple of books and hit up my printer connections for ideas and the best materials for me to get better deals on for printing.
this is a good site too: http://www.twopaperdolls.com/por…
nice invitation designs
- BannedKappa0
http://images.google.com/images?…
Ask her to pick something she likes and be done with the ambiguity...
- boobs0
Make it more feminine and ghey than you can possibly imagine, and you'll be Mr. Golden. Use really swoopy scripts, and lots of glassine inserts, and silver inks, with subtle pink drop-shadows. You'll never have to look at it again, and your wife and all her girlfriends (the real audience for weddings, except for the booze) will love you and praise your sensitivity!
- Jnr_Madison0
Make sure to post here once done, Taylor B got a very good constructive crit here a short time ago.
- hahahahahahMrOneHundred
- that makes some sense... but not enough
jimzyk - http://www.qbn.com/t…Jnr_Madison
- hehehe .... thanks .... but im a little scared now...jimzyk
- a lot to be learned from that thread_salisae_
- http://www.qbn.com/t…Jnr_Madison
- lolJaline
- Glitterati_Duane0
Don't do them. I did my wedding invitations and I wouldn't recommend it. We got in so many fights over them it became ridiculous. She wanted what she wanted and I didn't wanna design something corney. (At the time I actually designed wedding invitations for a living). In the end we both made compromises and we were both happy with them but it's not a road I wanna ever go down again and wouldn't recommend it.
- The_CCG0
i hired a former instructor to do it letterpress. You then become their critique.... best of both worlds.
- OSFA0
CONTRACT!!
- jimzyk0
i think ill have to get some legal advice.
i just cant make this kind of a decision on my own.
font....
colour....
size....
- emukid0
taylorB can help.
- he took the images down!Jnr_Madison
- now that's just wrongemukid
- i found his inspiration. i'm not going to further the embarrassment by revealing it tho._salisae_
- now that's just wrongemukid
- please do... please.. i need that freaky ass inspirationjimzyk
- but i mustn't! there are internet gods that might find it tacky and reduce my bytes portion._salisae_
- okay it's a starbucks promo. he used the exact folds, sizes and tone. it is a nice piece._salisae_
- NOPE: here is my inspiration... http://www.non-forma…
TaylorB
- gramme0
Are the in-laws very involved in this process? If not, and your fiancee respects you as a designer, it should be cake. Who's paying for these things to be printed? If the in-laws are cool with you paying for at least part of the printing, that's half the battle (one that I personally never won...) Just be mindful of her sensibilities as well as your own – pretend you're designing a invite for a design firm that you are launching with an associate, and you have to take both of your senses of style into consideration. Make sense?
If the whole design process turns into a freakin nightmare, don't fret. You'll have plenty of real problems to worry about sooner or later.
Congrats, and good Providence.
- jimzyk0
Thankyou gramme. Thats the best piece of advice i've heard all day... maybe all year. In-laws aren't really too involved which is great, im not sure if I could handle that. So i guess I've got freedom but maybe too much!?!
I think it will be 'cake',
I hope it will be 'cake',
I cant wait for 'cake',
Only time will tell...
- gramme0
Oh and run everything by her during the design process. Even if you have NO intention of taking her typographic advice, listen to her odd, possibly total cheeseball suggestions without outright dismissing them. She'll remember your attitude more than the outcome.
- Glitterati_Duane0
Gramme. You make it sound easy. He'll see soon enough just how un-easy it will become. When desiging wedding invites you have to remember that most brides are emotionally invested in them. It's not just another client who you can ignore and show a "better" way of doing something. Sometimes they just have a vision and they want you to follow it period no questions asked. I found that my bride clients trusted me as an "expert" and I could usually convince them not to go with certain suggestions. When it's your wife to be it's a whole other ball game. Those design debates can turn into full blown arguments if your not careful. Tread lightly dude trust me.
