Custom Speech Bubble Wedding Card

Let’s take a wee break from Christmas posts, shall we? Today’s post is on a custom card that I made for a customer. Still an extremely joyous occassion– a wedding!

You’re probably thinking, “Has Kelly lost her mind?! This is hardly wedding-ish!”– and I wouldn’t blame you. This card definitely needs some explaining.

My customer wrote me awhile back requesting for a “congratulations” card for newlyweds, and was very trusting in my ability to create a 100% customized card for her. I loved the openness with which she went about confirming her order. She provided me a nice write-up about the couple, which included how she knew them and how they got engaged. Very briefly, the couple were at a chapel-turned-restaurant called The White Rabbit having casual drinks when they started talking about their relationship and lives together. Without any premeditation, he said to her, “let’s just do it, let’s get engaged”. She said yes, and apparently it didn’t even sink in until he called for a bottle of champagne to celebrate. As my customer said, “no rings and fanfare”– and she wanted the card to revolve around this engagement story.

I’ve seen so many couples getting engaged in a very big, very public, and very planned way. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course– but this impromptu and heartfelt engagement spoke loads to me. My customer left me with only that story to interpret, and so I took quite awhile to come up with a few ideas and test them out. I had to do this story justice!

I decided to make something less formal than my previous wedding customs, and went with a die-cut card, with the main shape being a speech bubble. Why the speech bubble– because I really wanted to bring out the fact that their engagement was so simple, just words thrown out during casual conversation– “let’s just get engaged”. I also added a cream rabbit silhouette, probably don’t need to explain that one.

The card follows a navy and cream colour scheme to go with their wedding colours. The blue pieces of paper are linen paper, which is nicely textured. I also wanted it to be “wedding-y” without being formal, so I embossed it with a floral pattern. The cream pieces of paper (the inner speech bubble, and the rabbit) are lightly speckled with brown. I also inked the edges a little to give it more depth.

The card’s pretty much like a sandwich– two blue pieces and one cream piece in the middle (which is adhered to the blue back piece). All of them are brought together with a single matte silver eyelet.

The text featured is typewritten with my cursive script Olympia (which I still intend to write a post on!), and was provided by my customer.

I custom-made an envelope to fit the speech bubble card, so it fits perfectly!

I also added a matching blue strip of paper ribbon (cut out from the same piece of paper I used to make the card), and threaded it through the fancy-flapped envelope.

Hopefully, now that you know the back-story too, the card makes sense. I also hope that sharing this has allowed you to catch a glimpse of the joy (and I mean JOY!) I experience while making these custom cards. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of celebrating such a wonderful union of two? :]

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