"Together with their Families"
Dublin Core
Subject
Description
This artifact is a wedding invitation to Erin Brock and Erik Carlson's wedding.
The submitter told the following story about the artifact's creation: "My husband and I met in the newspaper industry and are both design/font snobs, so picking out invitations on Vistaprint (because that was our cost-effective option) was a little bit of a trial. We used a template, for ease and to save time, though that didn’t give us exactly what we had imagined, and then customized some of the spacing, the words, and the colors. Now that I look at it again, I hate the sans-serif font I picked…Our Save the Dates were very visual and colored, so we wanted the invitation to be more traditional. Our colors were mint and gold/silver, so I wanted certain elements to pop out in an accent of mint—which is why our names and the date are in mint. In regards to wording, “Together with their families” was one of the biggest changes or deviations, in my opinion. I didn’t want to have any text there at all, since my parents are divorced and we paid for most of the wedding ourselves, so it didn’t seem quite right to do the whole “Mr. and Mrs. David and Gail Brock” thing, but my husband is very close to his family and he wanted that to have a space in the invitation. The back of our invitation was my favorite part (and I think his, too). We liked the clean, modern design of the “e + e” logo and we had that on basically everything—save the dates, the programs, etc. My now sister-in-law even had champagne glasses etched with the logo, so it seems the guests picked up on it, too."
The submitter told the following story about the artifact's creation: "My husband and I met in the newspaper industry and are both design/font snobs, so picking out invitations on Vistaprint (because that was our cost-effective option) was a little bit of a trial. We used a template, for ease and to save time, though that didn’t give us exactly what we had imagined, and then customized some of the spacing, the words, and the colors. Now that I look at it again, I hate the sans-serif font I picked…Our Save the Dates were very visual and colored, so we wanted the invitation to be more traditional. Our colors were mint and gold/silver, so I wanted certain elements to pop out in an accent of mint—which is why our names and the date are in mint. In regards to wording, “Together with their families” was one of the biggest changes or deviations, in my opinion. I didn’t want to have any text there at all, since my parents are divorced and we paid for most of the wedding ourselves, so it didn’t seem quite right to do the whole “Mr. and Mrs. David and Gail Brock” thing, but my husband is very close to his family and he wanted that to have a space in the invitation. The back of our invitation was my favorite part (and I think his, too). We liked the clean, modern design of the “e + e” logo and we had that on basically everything—save the dates, the programs, etc. My now sister-in-law even had champagne glasses etched with the logo, so it seems the guests picked up on it, too."
Creator
Erin Brock Carlson
Source
Ellen Cecil
Publisher
Unpublished
Date
Rights
Erin Brock Carlson
Language
English
Identifier
Coverage
2000-2024
Letter, Message, and Announcement Item Type Metadata
Genre
invitation
Material
cardstock
Circulation
Person to Person (Analogue)
Linguistic Text
Together with their families
Erin Lynn Brock
&
Erik Andrew Carlson
request your presence as they exchange their vows
Saturday, 25 July 2015 7 p.m.
Buffalo Trace Distillery
113 Great Buffalo Trace Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Reception to follow
Erin Lynn Brock
&
Erik Andrew Carlson
request your presence as they exchange their vows
Saturday, 25 July 2015 7 p.m.
Buffalo Trace Distillery
113 Great Buffalo Trace Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Reception to follow
Visual Text
The invitation's background is white with a grey border and blue highlights of text throughout.
Files
Citation
Erin Brock Carlson, “"Together with their Families",” Museum of Everyday Writing, accessed May 3, 2024, https://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/items/show/36.