"Ellen Cecil and Alexander Lemkin"
Dublin Core
Subject
Description
This artifact is a wedding invitation to Ellen Cecil and Alexander Lemkin's wedding.
The submitter told the following story about the artifact's creation:
"I can definitely say that I spent WAY too much time thinking about and stressing about the wedding invitations. I spent hours going through various invitation and wedding websites looking for the perfect invitations, but I couldn’t find anything that I thought got at the heart of my vision. I finally reached out to one of my bridesmaids, Jessi Geshay, who has a lot of experience with graphic design (she was one semester away from completing her degree in graphic design before she switched to engineering). She volunteered to design the paper products for the wedding.
It was a very collaborative composing process. I showed Jessi several different examples of invitations that I liked and explained the various aspects of why I liked them. I also sent her the exact wording for the invitations. I had spent a lot of time looking through various invitations so I had a good idea of what I wanted it to say. I selected wording that I thought would convey the fun and happy mood of our wedding day.
The first thing that she created was the EA logo that was used on the back of our invitation and on the other invitation products (RSVP and Save the Date). Alex and I loved it.
She then got to work using the information I gave her to create a few mock up invitations (she created three versions for each draft processes). For various reasons, Alex and I weren’t crazy about the first designs. There was too much color, the fonts seemed static, and there was too much white space. It felt much too busy for what I wanted to convey. I sent her back Alex and my feedback and sent her fonts that I really liked. She went ahead and downloaded a bunch of new, fun fonts and had Alex and I select the ones we were most interested in. We also narrowed down the colors to what you see on the invitations.
The next round of invitations we got were much more what I wanted them to be. The design was very similar to what you see here. The major changes that we made from that draft to the final draft was the color arrangement and a few last touches on the font selection.
Overall, Alex and I were thrilled with the final product. I couldn’t have done it without Jessi’s help."
The submitter told the following story about the artifact's creation:
"I can definitely say that I spent WAY too much time thinking about and stressing about the wedding invitations. I spent hours going through various invitation and wedding websites looking for the perfect invitations, but I couldn’t find anything that I thought got at the heart of my vision. I finally reached out to one of my bridesmaids, Jessi Geshay, who has a lot of experience with graphic design (she was one semester away from completing her degree in graphic design before she switched to engineering). She volunteered to design the paper products for the wedding.
It was a very collaborative composing process. I showed Jessi several different examples of invitations that I liked and explained the various aspects of why I liked them. I also sent her the exact wording for the invitations. I had spent a lot of time looking through various invitations so I had a good idea of what I wanted it to say. I selected wording that I thought would convey the fun and happy mood of our wedding day.
The first thing that she created was the EA logo that was used on the back of our invitation and on the other invitation products (RSVP and Save the Date). Alex and I loved it.
She then got to work using the information I gave her to create a few mock up invitations (she created three versions for each draft processes). For various reasons, Alex and I weren’t crazy about the first designs. There was too much color, the fonts seemed static, and there was too much white space. It felt much too busy for what I wanted to convey. I sent her back Alex and my feedback and sent her fonts that I really liked. She went ahead and downloaded a bunch of new, fun fonts and had Alex and I select the ones we were most interested in. We also narrowed down the colors to what you see on the invitations.
The next round of invitations we got were much more what I wanted them to be. The design was very similar to what you see here. The major changes that we made from that draft to the final draft was the color arrangement and a few last touches on the font selection.
Overall, Alex and I were thrilled with the final product. I couldn’t have done it without Jessi’s help."
Creator
Ellen Cecil
Source
Ellen Cecil
Publisher
Unpublished
Date
Rights
Ellen Cecil
Language
English
Identifier
Coverage
2000-2024
Letter, Message, and Announcement Item Type Metadata
Genre
invitation
Material
cardstock
Circulation
Person to Person (Analogue)
Linguistic Text
Ellen Cecil and Alexander Lemkin are getting married!
We invite you to join us in
celebrating their love
Where & When
Highland Manor
583 East 6th Street
Apopka, FL 32703
Sunday, January 3rd, 2016
at 10:30 in the morning
Brunch, dancing, and merriment to follow
visit us at tiny.cc/eawed password: EAwed2016
We invite you to join us in
celebrating their love
Where & When
Highland Manor
583 East 6th Street
Apopka, FL 32703
Sunday, January 3rd, 2016
at 10:30 in the morning
Brunch, dancing, and merriment to follow
visit us at tiny.cc/eawed password: EAwed2016
Visual Text
Invitation has a white background with red, yellow, and blue font.
Citation
Ellen Cecil, “"Ellen Cecil and Alexander Lemkin",” Museum of Everyday Writing, accessed March 29, 2024, https://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/items/show/40.