#20 Invitation Suite for Himber Wedding

Wedding Invitation

I know it has been a while since I posted something. Sorry for the length but the Himber Wedding Invitation Suite has a lot of elements.

Invitation

RSVP Postcard

Direction Card

Accommodation Card

The bride and groom were very easy to work with. Like I have said in a previous post, the bride was a college roommate of mine. When she messaged me on Facebook about designing the paper goods for her wedding, I was both thrilled and excited.

Designing wedding invitations is sort of both scary and exciting at the same time. A Save the Date is the first thing an invited guest sees about the wedding; it sort of sets the tone on what that guest thinks the wedding is about. So when the invitations go out, it sort of adds to what the guest is thinking.

Close-Up Detail

I like to work closely with the couple since it is their day not mine. The bride told me that the wedding was definitely a southern wedding with flares of Louisiana and Texas.

At first, I didn't know how I was going to accomplish that task. The bride was inspired by my cousin's wedding. She was having similar colors, so I went from the there. 

I am a designer who loves typography, so messing around with fonts is right up my ally. I think we went through four or five different invitations before settling on the one we ended up with. After the basic invite was decided on, we still did a little bit of tweaking. When all was said and done, both the couple and I were excited about what came out.

Detail of the Invite: The Image

RSVP Postcard
I wanted to say that the RSVP postcard was my favorite element of the invitation suite. We came up with something I think is beautifully done.

Front

The image is of the wedding venue. Thanks to Adobe Photoshop I was able to make the image look more vintage and romantic. The bride and groom decided not to put any words on the front not to take away from the image.

Back

The back of the postcard had to be beautiful yet functional. It had to incorporate all of the information need for the guests to RSVP to the wedding. Again, we went with a vintage feel to go with the front of the card. 

Detail

Accommodation Card

Direction Card

All in all, I think everything turned out great.

#19 First Shipment

On March 14, 2012, Mayet Graphics made their first shipment out on an invitation suite for the Himber/Mustian wedding. First and foremost, I have had a pleasure of working closely with the bride and groom. I love it when a groom is just as much a part of the process of planning for a wedding. Because when you think about it, it is his day too.

I really enjoy working with brides and their grooms in creating all of their paper goods for the wedding. I really enjoying taking the inspiration and colors from the happy couple and making something unique and special for them.

After everything has been designed and printed, it is time to send them out. The picture below is what the table looked like when before the packed everything.

Packing the Box

What everything looks like when it is packaged inside the box. 

When packaging everything, I want it to look uniform. So I wrap everything
 I tissue paper, one that matches the colors of Mayet Graphics, and put a label on it. 

"What's in The Box," aka The Packing Slip

When all is done, the box is taped up nice and snug with bubble wrap. A mailing label is put on the box and finally shipped off. 

I couldn't be more than thrilled to have shipped out my first invitation suite. Photos of the Invitation Suite will be posted later on.

#18 Save the Dates

I know it has been a few weeks since I posted something here, but my little fingers have designing a lot lately. I also have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off going back and forth to my printer.

Save the Dates for the Himber/Musitan Wedding.

A few weeks back the Save the Dates for the Himber/Mustian wedding went out. (It took me a while to post this, because I waited till they went out to her guests.) 


Courtney, the bride, was inspired by my the paper goods I did for my cousins wedding. 


Her colors were a deep purple and green. It is kind of hard for me to describe the green color. I want to say lime green, but it is not a lime green. It has a little more green the the tone and less yellow. Anyway, green and purple work really well together. 


We we were emailing back and forth, she told me her theme was a Southern Wedding. Being a southern girl myself, I absolutely loved it. "Southern Weddings" are always romantic and beautiful with a hint of sophistication. Also, she told me it sort of a Texas meets Louisiana wedding since the bride was from Texas and her groom, Mike, was from Louisiana. 


I have had a blast working with Courtney and Mike. Photos of her invitation suite will come later. 

#17 Clone Tool in Photoshop

I know I probably should have posted about this sooner. My grandmother asked me if I could take some people out of a photo. She wanted the couple in the front to be by themselves. I was extremely happy and excited to do this for her.

He made me practice my photoshop skills. I love to be able to help out anyone in my family with the skills that I have. My grandmother was gracious enough to allow me to do this for her. I know she could have go somewhere else.

For this particular project, the clone tool was used for the most part of the project. A lot of hours, on my part, was spent looking very closely at my computer screen. Mind you, this was before I received my 15 inch MacBookPro computer. I did this project on my 12 inch Powerbook G4.

I constantly had to zoom in and out of the image to make sure I wasn't changing anything that needed to be changed. This project made me become very familiar with the tool. I had to play close attention to what was at task.
The photo above and to the left is what I started out with.

The photo to the above is what the finished product looked like. I think it came out pretty good after the many hours spent in front of the computer. My grandmother was really happy with how it turned out.

#16 New Client

I was recently contacted by a roommate from my Disney College Program days. Her name is Donielle Fisher better known to me as Doni. While at Disney we became close. Now she is getting married. I will be doing her invitations and RSVP cards.

How we met..

4 years ago I worked at a very elite hotel spa resort, in which focused on healthy living. So to promote this aspect even more they brought in interns from India and Peru. Giancarlo was one of these interns who got placed as a cook in the kitchen. I worked at the front desk and guest services, in which we provided snacks for our guests. This required me to go into our kitchen to grab fruits and crackers and hummus for our healthy guests. This is where we first saw each other; of course nothing was said as we were both doing our jobs. I sat in our employee cafeteria for lunch one day a few weeks later and he walked over to my table and began to talk to me. His English wasn’t perfect, but he was understandable. After that day, we hung out numerous times, from playing mini golf, to him cooking me dinner, to a road trip to Tombstone, Arizona. Then he traveled back to Peru once his internship was over, and I thought so was our friendship, but I was wrong. 3 years later, after many emails, he came back to Tucson to see me again. And this time we knew we didn’t want to wait another 3 years to see each other again.

The Proposal-

After another 7 months of being apart from each other, I came to Peru to be with him. On the 8th of November he wanted to take me out to dinner at the restaurant in the hotel he works for, called Mesa 18 in the Miraflores Park Hotel.  We arrive at a beautiful elegant restaurant and are walked to a pre-assigned table. Unlike all the other tables ours was decked out with a vase of my favorite flower, calla lilies, and had a heart made of rose pedals placed in the middle of the table.  We ordered a bottle of champagne and a couple main dishes. Along with our food came rolls of bread in the shape of hearts. After we finished our main dishes, we awaited dessert. All of a sudden our song, Ill be there, by Green Eyed Stare started paying throughout the restaurant and 3 waiters walked up to our table, one with our desserts, one with a tray of chocolate covered strawberries and another with a bouquet of roses. At this point, all of the kitchen staff was standing outside of the kitchen watching us break into our chocolate heart desserts. I cracked mine open to fine jelly candies with a string attached to a white gold sapphire ring. I pulled it out and Gian got up and came over to my side, and down on one leg. He grabbed my right hand and attempted to take off my ring. I found out later that it is the custom here to wear the ring on the right hand in Peru. I handed him my left hand and gave him a wink. He told me he loved me with all his heart and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me. And then asked if I would marry him. Of course I said yes! 

#15 Kimberly Detillier Wedding

Mayet Graphics has added another new client (yippi). Kim and I have sort of grown up together. I don't ever remember not knowing her. So to be able to take part in her special day is amazing to me. I will be designing her programs. I am so excited to be about to do this for her.

Below is a picture of her and her soon to be hubby along with their story; it is in Kim's words:

Jordan and I started dating on May 5, 2009. Most people figure we were out celebrating Cinco de Mayo when this occurred, but the truth is Jordan was working offshore and I was at home. Our first date was to Yogi Bear Campground with some friends of Jordan. When we had the time we’d always take mini weekend vacations together. Rewind to May 13, 2011, we were on a weekend trip to Gulfport and when we arrived at our hotel Jordan proposed. The most exciting thing was calling our parents to tell them the news. We’re getting married March 31, 2012 at the Courtyard Marriott in Houma (which is the same hotel Jordan proposed at, just different location).The day is quickly approaching and we couldn’t be happier!


I know the wedding will be beautiful.

# 14 Yvette

2012 so far has been an amazing year for Mayet Graphics and for me. I know I haven't posted and I am sorry for that. Things have been a little hectic, but enough about that. Mayet Graphics has acquired two new clients. I am so excited.

The first new client, my cousin Yvette Adams. She is from Arizona. Over the last few years, I feel we have grown a little closer; this has been made easier with Facebook. I got a call from her recently wanting me to design her demo cd cover. I couldn't be more excited about being a part of this. One reason is that I love that she is following her dreams no matter how big or small they are. So proud of her. Secondly, I love music and hope that one day I could be a part of that world from a behind the scenes stand point.

The photo to left is Yvette; I ask my clients to give me a story about themselves to feature them on this blog as well as on the Facebook page. She did something a little more creative. She wrote the story from a journalistic point of view. 

The moment Yvette Adams hits that first note, you know she was born to sing. Not only does her voice have a soulful quality that has often times been compared to Adele, but the passion she exudes for performing far exceeds her enchanting voice. 

Yvette was born and raised in Arizona. She got involved in acting and musical theater at a young age performing in many local musical theater productions. As she got older, she continued participating in theater. Her sultry voice and sex appeal on stage got her cast as Rizzo in her high school's production of "Grease" and as Kate in "The Wild Party" while attending the University of Arizona. 

Outside of the theater, Yvette discovered the indie music scene,

"I used to go to shows with my friends almost every weekend. There were all these unknown local bands that would play at tiny little venues and we were only 13 or 14 so we'd get our mom's to drive us. We thought we were so cool. At the time I didn't know it, but I think it was kind of my training ground. Watching all those bands perform, I learned what to do, what not to do, what sounded good and what made people walk out of a room."

Once in college Yvette explored other areas of interest, such as French, astronomy and creative writing.

"I was voted most likely to be on Broadway my senior year of high school. It was awesome to get noticed for my talent, but at the same time it didn't feel right. I felt burnt out so I tried, desperately, to find something else to do with my life."

She was unsuccessful. So in the spring of her freshman year of college she auditioned for the Musical Theater Program and made it. It was a very competitive program that required an audition at the end of each year to remain in the program. 

"I learned so much about acting, singing, my body, myself. However, the program was very intense, and the stress weighed on me. The program was structured in a way that it made me second guess everything I did. I over analyzed my acting, my singing, so much so that I started to believe I wasn't good enough."

Yvette was cut from the program after her first year.

"It was a blow. A big one. Somewhere deep down I knew I was talented, but being cut made me second guess my dreams. My worst fear came true, I wasn't good enough. That's when I started writing music. I was depressed, but I was also angry. How dare these people tell me I wasn't good enough? That I couldn't follow my dreams? I decided I would do it on my own terms, sing my own songs, use my own words. That's when music really came alive to me, when I stopped telling the world someone else's story and started sharing my own."

Ever since, Yvette has been writing and singing her own music. She completed her first music video in August 2011 for the song "Your Eyes" and is currently working on completing a demo album, which when finished, will be put on itunes as well as her website.

I couldn't be more happier and prouder of her. Good Luck Yvette!!!