"Lovely Day"
Dublin Core
Title
Subject
Description
This artifact is a wedding invitation to Leigh Gruwell and Veikko Koski's wedding.
The submitter told the following story about the artifact's creation:
"These are not the invitations we originally planned. We started by designing our own invitations (I knew how to use InDesign and liked playing with it) but eventually time began to run out and I realized it’d be cheaper—and easier— to make use of one of the many website devoted to wedding stationery. We chose this design because it was in line with the overall “look” of the wedding, and also because of its informality. The language reflected the fact that my family was not “hosting” (paying for) the wedding, and signaled that our wedding was neither religious nor overly traditional. In the end, we loved how they turned out—we chose to frame one and display it in our living room—and, judging by the number that still hang on our guests’ fridges more than a year later, our loved ones value it just as much as we do."
The submitter told the following story about the artifact's creation:
"These are not the invitations we originally planned. We started by designing our own invitations (I knew how to use InDesign and liked playing with it) but eventually time began to run out and I realized it’d be cheaper—and easier— to make use of one of the many website devoted to wedding stationery. We chose this design because it was in line with the overall “look” of the wedding, and also because of its informality. The language reflected the fact that my family was not “hosting” (paying for) the wedding, and signaled that our wedding was neither religious nor overly traditional. In the end, we loved how they turned out—we chose to frame one and display it in our living room—and, judging by the number that still hang on our guests’ fridges more than a year later, our loved ones value it just as much as we do."
Creator
Leigh Gruwell
Source
Ellen Cecil
Publisher
Unpublished
Date
Rights
Leigh Gruwell
Language
English
Identifier
Coverage
2000-2024
Letter, Message, and Announcement Item Type Metadata
Genre
invitation
Material
cardstock
Circulation
Person to Person (Analogue)
Linguistic Text
Lovely Day
Together with their families
Leigh Gruwell + Veikko Koski
request the pleasure of your company
at the celebration of their union
Saturday, August 30, 2014
at 4:30 in the afternoon
Kayla's Corner at Lake Lyndsay
4845 Augspurger Road
Hamilton, Ohio
Merriment to follow
Together with their families
Leigh Gruwell + Veikko Koski
request the pleasure of your company
at the celebration of their union
Saturday, August 30, 2014
at 4:30 in the afternoon
Kayla's Corner at Lake Lyndsay
4845 Augspurger Road
Hamilton, Ohio
Merriment to follow
Visual Text
The background of the invitation is white and is decorated with gold polkadots.
Files
Citation
Leigh Gruwell, “"Lovely Day",” Museum of Everyday Writing, accessed April 28, 2024, https://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/items/show/39.