Friday 27 May 2016

Wedding table plan map - Mel & Adam





A few months back I was asked to help design a table plan for some friends' wedding. Fellow animators Adam and Mel suitably chose the theme 'books from our childhood' and wanted to have each table as a character or book that meant something to each of them when they were growing up. Mel had suggested the table plan be a map showing each of the fictional places, so I got about doodling and designing it for them.

I created a map based upon one of the themes, the 100 Acre Wood from Winnie the Pooh, and added in mountains, paths and trees to make different areas such as Moomin Valley, Roald Dahl's BFG, Alice's Wonderland to name a few. It was quite a challenge to marry up each of the different illustrative styles from each book, and to also find suitable space for the guests names, without making the whole thing too busy and messy.

I had the idea that it would be really fun if the map was actually printed and folded like an actual map, rather than one big table plan on the wall. The guests could each take a map and go to find their seat in the reception. Mel loved this idea so we ran with it and she had someone make a custom box to hold and display them. This was a playful twist on the usual table plan, which really suited this playful and fun-loving couple. (They walked down the aisle to the Star Wars theme played on the church organ by the way!) The table plans were printed onto a cream 200gsm card and map-folded.

Another really personal and unique wedding design for a special couple, I had loads of fun doing this!





Monday 23 May 2016

Rhi & Dom's rural wedding 'Part 2'


Some of you may remember the wedding stationery which I designed last year for country couple Rhi and Dom (catch the original post here). The big day finally came and went this month, and I completed more design and print work for them in the shape of orders of service, confetti pouches, table and place names, menus...

Attention to detail and adding the personal touch were key to this project, and it was lovely to be able to be create so many coordinating pieces of design and print for this client. I handstitched the order of service booklets with a thin jute twine, and I made some custom card sleeves for the boxes which the couple presented their starters in for each guest. A really cute idea. I also adapted the original tree illustration to work as a fingerprint tree 'guestbook' at the bride's request. Its always really nice to receive photos back from the client of all the final print in action on the day, looks like a stunning wedding! Love the tree theme and the hanging plant pots and lights, beautiful.