I was so honored to design these red & blue wedding invitations & programs for my dearest high school friend's wedding. It was a laborious but beautiful process, and as of April 11, 2014 our first wedding project has finally come and gone.
The bride and groom were open to any ideas and styles I could dream up -- with the color scheme for the wedding (purple, red & blue) being my only restrictions. I soon found out that freedom of design can be a challenging process, but after a few drafts (and bouncing ideas off my
creative director husband) came up with a solid set of elements to further develop. It was so much fun to play with the red & blue theme and to decide where to add pops of color, and where to leave text black.
Warning: There is a story behind this wedding (aka "The Fairy Godmother Project"). This post may get lengthy. But really, it's mostly pictures. You have been warned. ;)
The wedding was unlike any I've been to. My friend Paige and her fiance Cody (an Army Sergeant) were going to have a minimalist wedding, as that is all they could afford, but then something amazing happened: two women decided they would be Paige's "Fairy Godmothers" and throw her a dream wedding.
Here are some of the amazing shots from the day. All photo credit given to
Coppersmith Photography with a special
thanks for letting me use them in my blog post. They did such a wonderful job & made sure everyone was having fun!
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| I love this shot of all the dresses! Yes, we all wore cowboy boots. |
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| Close-up of the boots. |
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| Bride with her Bridesmaids :) |
The bridesmaid's dresses were varying shades of blue with red accents in the jewelry, flowers, and pashmina shawls.
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| The whole wedding party. |
Those tie-clips are actually really cool money holders that the bride engraved by hand. They have the initials of the groomsmen (& ushers) engraved on them. Such skill. The varying shades of the red & blue wedding party attire really came together nicely, don't you think?
And here are some of my favorite shots of the lovely bride & groom from the day. I can't help but smile when I look through these.
Gorgeous wedding with great friends! I am blessed. Oh yeah, plus some really cool invitations & programs ;)
I can't believe I almost forgot to mention the super cool
slow motion booth & photo booth that was set-up in the old hay loft of the barn. The video has not been posted yet, but basically the photographer (
Travis Johansen) takes slow motion videos in addition to normal photo booth photos, and then splices them together & edits them into a crazy cool, fun, memorable video of the event. Enjoy!
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| Dancing with my momma |
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| The bride & groom with some of the vendors |
Slow Motion Booth & Photo Booth by
7Booth. For a full list of vendors visit the Fairy Godmother Project Minnesota
Facebook Page.
