About two months ago, I got married to my long-time boyfriend, Nick Hermes. We’d been dating for five years when we got hitched and had been friends for ten years before that. When it came to designing our wedding invitations, I had A LOT of history to draw from. I hemmed and hawed until one day Nick said, what about a crossword? Challenge accepted! The crossword theme really fit for us, because one of the things that we started doing together when we became a couple, was that we would often do the Saturday crossword puzzle together in our pjs on Nick’s old couch in a house he shared with five other guys. (So romantic …) It seemed to be one of those things that marked that we’d transitioned from being “just friends” to being “more than friends.” The concept for our invitations was born.
We picked some very simple questions for our crossword and used a crossword generator to make the actual crossword. Then I mocked the whole thing up using one of my current fave fonts: Bombshell Pro and the classic Century Gothic. We ended up doing a combination of print and einvites. I also mocked up an eggplant coloured envelope that could be emailed, and when it was clicked it would take the recipient to our wedding website. Even though, as most designers will tell you, designing for oneself is a big challenge, I was pretty happy with how these turned out.
And for good measure … a photo of our wedding. (Photo by Jenna Richard.)
Kate Moore Hermes 