Project: When your last names are featured together in Harry Potter (#HouseOfGaunt) like... you have to take full advantage of that when you get married. I could speak way too long about these, so let me cut to the chase with a few facts about them:
• For our Save the Date, I digitally mocked up all elements — created my own version of the House of Gaunt from Harry Potter, and then drew out some type that looked like it had been letterpressed (since Michael & I’s first date included him helping me print my final project for 5 hours in the letterpress lab at FSU, ha!) At the bottom, I drew our 5 icons that represented us that included HP imagery.
• We also want it to look like a page that would have been torn out from an actual HP book, hence the chapter header with an opening paragraph, so yes: I did use a deckled edge ruler to transform each print and then burn them over a candle to give a more aged appearance. (This was, of course, after I screen-printed both layers in our steamy & dreamy garage print lab)
• I couldn’t just handle doing a 1-sided invitation. I knew that with our subtle Harry Potter theme, we just had to turn these invites into something… more. I had sketched out a few different ideas, but landed on this one: a double fold with the outside resembling the Marauders Map.
• I carved the House of Gaunt icon into a rubber block, inked it with golden, and hand-stamped each of our Forest Green envelopes.
• I illustrated the exact spot on Wilson Creek in Brown Mountain Beach Resort where we were having our ceremony, complete with the changing Autumn leaves, and used that for the invite.
• The first fold of the invite is a map of the area of North Carolina where we got married, and how to get there depending on where you came from. I wanted to create it in similarity to the Marauder’s Map, while also including important monuments to the area.
• I also illustrated the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Details card, and the RSVP card is a Hogwarts Express ticket.
• And yes, the wax stamp was my own version (once again) of the House of Gaunt door from HP that I got made into a stamp. We used the stamp for both the Save the Dates and Invitations.
Deep dive into our Save the Dates, click here.
Deep dive into our Invitations, click here.
Mischief Managed... am I right?
AMAZING PHOTOS BY THE FANTASTIC BRENDAN JOEL PHOTOGRAPHY.
Tools: Procreate, Adobe Illustrator, Printmaking.
