Sep01Real Invitations — Jeshurun + Ryan

Today’s real invi­ta­tions have one of my favorite themes ever – cof­fee and books!  Jeshu­run took on the task of design­ing her own wed­ding invi­ta­tions and Save the Dates while fin­ish­ing up her Master’s the­sis in graphic design at RISD and try­ing to plan the rest of her wed­ding.  Once Jeshu­run and Ryan set­tled on a gen­eral theme the rest of the design came together organ­i­cally, includ­ing a beau­ti­ful let­ter­press book­mark Save the Date!

From Jeshuru:  As a graphic designer, there is some pres­sure to make your wed­ding invi­ta­tions a slice of design per­fec­tion.  My hus­band Ryan man­ages a cof­fee shop, and we met in a cof­fee shop, so it seemed nat­ural to incor­po­rate that ele­ment as a design detail.  Cof­fee plants are actu­ally quite beautiful.

I recy­cled burlap cof­fee bags from his work by cut­ting them into small rec­tan­gles and attach­ing some home­made but­tons of my own design to be used at the place settings.

I let­ter­press printed my Save the Dates at RISD and attached gor­geous hand-dyed silk rib­bon (from Hanah Silk Rib­bon) to cre­ate the bookmarks.

To con­tinue the book theme, I stacked books I had at home into the shape of a wed­ding cake, then pho­tographed and traced them in Illus­tra­tor to cre­ate the invi­ta­tions. My friend Elana at Spoon & Sailor han­dled the print­ing of the invi­ta­tions since I wanted a per­fect color-match and some addi­tional let­ter­press expertise.

A cus­tom rub­ber stamp and scal­loped note cards from Paper Source made the RSVP cards a breeze.  The recep­tion din­ner menu was sim­ply ink-jet printed at home.

Instead of a guest book, I cre­ated a wish­ing tree to which guests could attach notes.

Fan­tas­tic work Jeshu­run!  Con­grat­u­la­tions, and thank you so much for shar­ing your wed­ding invitations!

{image cred­its: invi­ta­tion photo by Elana at Spoon & Sailor; wish­ing tree, guest book, and but­tons by Jeff Ever­ard Pho­tog­ra­phy, all oth­ers by Jeshu­run Webb}