Custom Hand Painted Wedding Invitations

To start, what exactly are custom hand painted wedding invitations?

To begin with by saying custom, that means that your invitations will be customised to you! Your chosen colours, your particular theme, whatever you desire, it will be yours. You work one to one directly will an invitation designer and go through several stages of artwork and design to arrive at exactly what you are envisioning. How about custom hand painted invitations? Is each and every invitation literally hand painted? Yes and no. Your artwork is all developed and hand painted. Then depending upon your budget, it can be printed or, yes, the final invitations and cards within your stationery suite can all literally be hand painted. I find that I often used a balance between the two for most of my invitation suites.

Everyone wants their wedding to be special and unique. So why custom hand painted wedding invitations? Unfortunately, for your wedding to be unique, that’s easier said than done because today all weddings seem the same. The guests receive a generic wedding invitation card, they visit a venue with pastel coloured decor, and listen to the wedding themed songs that are present at almost all weddings these days. If you really want your wedding to be unique and interesting, you need to think outside the box, and plan a wedding that’s a good reflection of you as a couple.

Many couples are choosing to design highly personalised weddings, going to smaller intimate weddings. In addition, many couples are now opting for destination weddings and want a higher level of service with completely custom handmade wedding invitations. Custom hand painted wedding invitations can be used with bespoke watercolour designs, artwork or any illustration effect you desire.  Many of my clients also want custom designed calligraphy to further compliment their enticingly designed invitation suite.

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Completely Unique Bespoke Designs

The beauty of hand painted invitations is that no two designs are the same. As a couple, you are both unique, you have particular personalities and certain stand-out moments that brought you together. You both have passions and interest that set you apart. You want to weave those passion throughout your wedding and your wedding invitations.   I would love to listen to your story. What is your favourite type of architecture? What sorts of interiors do you love?  What are your favourite flowers? Which country you love travelling to and do you perhaps want a wedding in France?  What is special about your culture or heritage? Or perhaps you would like your invitations and stationery to reflect your wedding venue? When I design your wedding invitations they will be to completely unique to you. 

As a London Wedding Invitations designer I will pour all of my heart into your illustrations and design them with your personality and relationship in mind. As an artist I always put in a lot of time, thought, and effort into getting to know you as a couple, so that I can create the designs to ensure they represent you well.

My hand painted wedding invitations will immediately draw attention and leave a great impression on your prospective guests. Here’s a brief glimpse at some invitations recently created for a wedding in the Ritz Carlton, Paris ( BELOW).

What’s Special About My Custom Hand Painted Wedding Invitations?

Are you reluctant, or perhaps your on the fence on whether to consider a commissioned  custom hand painted invitations? The result is well worth the effort. Here are some reasons why you should consider them:

• Paper – I only use high quality and textured paper that looks and feels luxurious and weighty. These papers are sourced from GFSmith, London. Mostly, I tend to use whites, neutral and dark colours for accents as well as particular coloured papers to weave in your chosen colour theme. I often like to create watercolour washes onto each of the papers I use, to give them a completely unique look. Papers are often used with heavier card stock to mount all my hand painted wedding invitations on.  People who receive your invitation would immediately understand the value and effort involved. The paper and raw materials I use serve to enhance the overall look of the invitation.

• Envelopes -I pride myself on making in-house luxury hand painted envelopes that are often oversized. I often have many questions over social media, “Are they really hand painted?” Yes, indeed they really are hand painted! This adds an extra wow factor to your paper suite. You can run your fingers over the texture and know that you are holding a piece of art in your hands (below).

• Adornments - Upon request, I can source silk ribbons and chiffon to add as an adornment to your stationery. I make as effort to only use and source the absolute best in the industry, buying all of our hand made silk ribbons directly from Silk and Willow, New York.

• Excellent Design – I have a degree in Art from the university of Nottingham Trent and I have an excellent understanding of illustration and can create wedding invitation cards that look elegant without being cheesy or far from the norm. My hand painted wedding invitations and cards are often quite dramatic as well as being subtle with gentle botanical designs if needed too, so to add a personal touch to the invitation.

• It is important that you select a designer that has a portfolio that you immediately identify with. The right artist can make it very meaningful. Don't just approach any invitation designer or artist. If you approach a designer that specialises in light and airy creations such as Jenny Sanders, you cannot expect her to design something as rich as Crimson Letter's designs. Make sure you chose a designer that has the right, look, feel and designers you  are instantly attracted to. That way you will have a very good working synergy.

• From Inspiration to Design- I will use your inspirations and themes to create the bespoke, custom designed illustrations for your wedding. See this bespoke watercolour wedding invitation suite I recently designed for a client, featuring florals.

• Take a look below at an example of how the I used the below dark coloured flowers (Image credit here ) for the main inspiration point. Using that as a focal point, I started to create a large gestural, abstract acrylic painting that became the central focus point of the entire wedding suite, as a hand painted envelope liner for a bespoke order.
• Any points of inspiration and visual ideas can be used to shape a design for your custom hand painted wedding Invitations.