"Together with their Parents"
Dublin Core
Subject
Description
This artifact is a wedding invitation to Alyse Eversole and Daniel Capaccio's wedding.
The submitter told the following story about the artifact's creation:
Invitation choice:
Danny and I decided to design our own invitation. We wanted our wedding to reflect our personalities and be uniquely ‘us’. We both enjoy art and design, so the invitation seemed like a perfect opportunity to do something unlike anything we’d seen before.
Wording:
I’m not much of a writer, I’m better at communicating through images. The wording we used for the invitation is very minimal–just a list of the necessary information.
Paper:
We printed our invitations at the Miami print center because it was the cheapest printer available who could print a large, double-sided invitation. My roommates and I cut them ourselves to save money and to make sure they were cut perfectly (or as close as possible). We ordered a nice coated paper to print the invitations on, but it turned out that the paper was unusable in laser printers, so we chose the nicest available paper at the print center (a silk text-weight paper). It feels nice and smooth, but was a little thinner than we were hoping for.
Fonts:
We decided on a combination of a serif and sans-serif font–a pretty standard starting point in graphic design. The sans-serif font is Trade Gothic. It was my favorite font that year. It looks modern and clean, and the font family includes a lot of variations–condensed, extended, light, and 11 other styles. I technically didn’t have a license for the font, I acquired it from a friend in college for a project. I don’t remember what the serif font was, but we chose it because it went well with Trade Gothic.
Color:
We used eggplant purple and lime green for our wedding invitations and wedding colors because they are our favorite colors, and conveniently they looked good together. The eggplant is pretty traditional as a wedding color, and we were a bit hesitant to use a purple because it’s a common wedding color. But we liked purple, so we used it anyway! When combined with the lime green, the color scheme felt unique, vibrant, and a bit quirky.
Art/Layout:
We split the information into 4 panels: Who/What, When, Where, and Registry. We wanted the invitation to look ‘artsy’, so we painted canvases for each of the panels: I painted the Who/What and Where canvases, and Danny painted the When and Registry panels. Painting was a way we could both creatively contribute to the invitation at a similar skill level (neither of us are amazing, at painting, but we’re not awful tongue emoticon ). We then photographed the canvases for use in the invitation. The back of the invitation is a photo of purple brushstrokes. There is also a QR code on the back of the invitation that linked to our wedding website. We assumed QR codes would be outdated soon, and liked the idea of using this technology to kind of ‘date’ the invitation. Including a QR code was also significant because Danny used a series of QR codes to propose.
We used a purple CD sleeve as the envelope since we are both musicians (especially Danny).
The submitter told the following story about the artifact's creation:
Invitation choice:
Danny and I decided to design our own invitation. We wanted our wedding to reflect our personalities and be uniquely ‘us’. We both enjoy art and design, so the invitation seemed like a perfect opportunity to do something unlike anything we’d seen before.
Wording:
I’m not much of a writer, I’m better at communicating through images. The wording we used for the invitation is very minimal–just a list of the necessary information.
Paper:
We printed our invitations at the Miami print center because it was the cheapest printer available who could print a large, double-sided invitation. My roommates and I cut them ourselves to save money and to make sure they were cut perfectly (or as close as possible). We ordered a nice coated paper to print the invitations on, but it turned out that the paper was unusable in laser printers, so we chose the nicest available paper at the print center (a silk text-weight paper). It feels nice and smooth, but was a little thinner than we were hoping for.
Fonts:
We decided on a combination of a serif and sans-serif font–a pretty standard starting point in graphic design. The sans-serif font is Trade Gothic. It was my favorite font that year. It looks modern and clean, and the font family includes a lot of variations–condensed, extended, light, and 11 other styles. I technically didn’t have a license for the font, I acquired it from a friend in college for a project. I don’t remember what the serif font was, but we chose it because it went well with Trade Gothic.
Color:
We used eggplant purple and lime green for our wedding invitations and wedding colors because they are our favorite colors, and conveniently they looked good together. The eggplant is pretty traditional as a wedding color, and we were a bit hesitant to use a purple because it’s a common wedding color. But we liked purple, so we used it anyway! When combined with the lime green, the color scheme felt unique, vibrant, and a bit quirky.
Art/Layout:
We split the information into 4 panels: Who/What, When, Where, and Registry. We wanted the invitation to look ‘artsy’, so we painted canvases for each of the panels: I painted the Who/What and Where canvases, and Danny painted the When and Registry panels. Painting was a way we could both creatively contribute to the invitation at a similar skill level (neither of us are amazing, at painting, but we’re not awful tongue emoticon ). We then photographed the canvases for use in the invitation. The back of the invitation is a photo of purple brushstrokes. There is also a QR code on the back of the invitation that linked to our wedding website. We assumed QR codes would be outdated soon, and liked the idea of using this technology to kind of ‘date’ the invitation. Including a QR code was also significant because Danny used a series of QR codes to propose.
We used a purple CD sleeve as the envelope since we are both musicians (especially Danny).
Creator
Alyse Capaccio
Source
Ellen Cecil
Publisher
Unpublished
Date
Rights
Alyse Capaccio
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 parents
Alyse Janette Eversole
&
Daniel Patrick Capaccio
request the honor of your presence
as they join their lives in marriage
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Ceremony begins at 4pm
Nazareth Hall
21211 West River Road
Grand Rapids, OH 43522
Reception immediately following
Registered at
Amazon, Bed Bath & Beyond, Macy's, and Kohl's
Alyse Janette Eversole
&
Daniel Patrick Capaccio
request the honor of your presence
as they join their lives in marriage
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Ceremony begins at 4pm
Nazareth Hall
21211 West River Road
Grand Rapids, OH 43522
Reception immediately following
Registered at
Amazon, Bed Bath & Beyond, Macy's, and Kohl's
Visual Text
The invitation is broken up into four different sections, with four distinct images. The colors are primarily green and plum. The first image is an outline of the hair of the couple. The second image is of a house. The third image is a flower. The forth image is a present.
Files
Citation
Alyse Capaccio, “"Together with their Parents",” Museum of Everyday Writing, accessed April 29, 2024, https://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/items/show/37.