Shower Invites

My sister-in-law Ali is getting married in September, and she has been subjected to my absolute obsession with weddings. Even though I am somewhat retired from the paper business, I was of course going to do all of the paper for Ali. I thought I'd share the shower invite with you. I hired an amazing artist named Kelli Murray to do the illustration for me, and I just love the way it came out. I sent her pics and info about Ali and Stephen, and she came up with a sketch a few days later. I then built the rest of the invitation around it. The inside utilizes three fonts, and some characters I had to create myself to have a similar feel to the hand-written Ali + Stephen on the front. The funny thing about these fonts is that when I had the invitation printed, the printer didn't get the fonts embedded in the PDF I sent, so they printed them with the wrong font. When I got them, I freaked since it looked nothing like what I prepared. In a frenzy they re-printed them in the later afternoon, and left them bundled in bubble wrap on the sidewalk outside of their shop in Columbia. Luckily, my friend Missy picked them up for me, or someone else would have been enjoying them. Look forward to our Christmas cards being from one of her illustrations.