Today I had the pleasure of meeting with Mirka about invitations. She was a breeze to work with because she knew exactly what she looking for out of an invitation. She came armed and ready to go with pictures of invitations she liked, this is so helpful to have when meeting with your stationery consultant because it helps us help you so much faster.
Mirka and her fiance are both from Slovakia - half of their guests speak only Slovak and the other half speak English, they also have a small guest list of only about 50 people. Because of this I instantly recommended that they do a custom invitation. Printing companies have such high set up fees that to have to have them set up 2 different invitations and then tack on a foreign language charge would put the price of their invitations a ridiculous high price for only 50 invitations.
Mirka also requested a unique invitation size. Traditionally in the US invitations really do not start any smaller than 5x7, however as she explained to me, in Slovakia guests traditionally keep their invitations and they like to put them into photo albums, so their invitations are generally no larger that 4x6.
Because of all of these unique factors, custom design was truly the best scenario.
This was one of the inspiration invitations that Mirka showed me that she liked...
This is how I recreated...this is a rough draft, client's personal invitation was blocked for privacy.
This was another inspiration picture Mirka shared with me, her only request was that flower have color.
This is what I created for her..
We thank the photographer at freedigitalphotos.net for use of his red rose photo.
