Thursday, June 20, 2013

Screen Printed Wedding Paper Suite :: Islamic Geometric Patterns



Late last year I was contacted by a couple looking for custom wedding invitations and paper suite to complement their modern Muslim wedding.  Faizah & Zaahir (watch their adorable NY Times vows video here) came to me with a super clear vision of what they wanted: a suite of coordinating pieces including invites, guest info cards, escort cards, menus, programs, guest totes and even background graphics for their wedding website and photobooth.  

While Faizah initially found me through my Etsy shop, they both lived in Brooklyn so we were lucky enough to meet in person to talk about what they wanted and flip through the book Islamic Geometric Patterns by Erig Broug, selecting various patterns to use throughout their paper suite.  Over the course of the next few months I worked to churn out the various components.  

First came the background graphic for their wedding website...


Then the invitations...

Invitation and Info Card

Invitation detail

Screen printing detail

And finally the pieces for the wedding day itself, even including glam, gold patterned canvas totes for hotel guests!

Programs, back and front

Program back detail

Program front detail

Donation Cards

Escort Cards

Menus

Guest Totes and Welcome Notes

Guest Tote and Welcome Note detail

Guest Tote detail

In the end I was super pleased with the results.  It was tons of work, but I always get so much fulfillment out of hand-preparing the screens and printing and cutting each piece.  There's nothing like the satisfaction of seeing the stacks of completed paper goods that you made yourself, and it's an honor to be able to provide a couple with an important component to one of the most important days of their lives.  

One of my favorite parts of the process was seeing how the photobooth graphic turned out.  Their photobooth setup was done by We Love Photobooths.



3 comments:

  1. Hi Lauren,
    I wanted to take this opportunity and tell you how much I love this work. I love, love the way the prints turned out (at least digitally).
    I totally know what you mean by how much work this was - I print and cut work myself too. I love the idea of guest totes (hope you don't mind me suggesting this idea to my clients too) , and the photo booth. how you achieved that print is a mind twister to me.

    All in all, congrats! Beautifully done.

    Nisile.

    ps
    sorry my appreciation came so late :-)

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  2. Hi Nisile - thank you so much for your kind comment! Take care!

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  3. Just happened on this post while looking for geometric patterns. So lovely to see the delightful range of applications for this pattern, from computer to paper to photo backdrop. A fun project, and great work!

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