{"id":429,"date":"2014-02-19T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/?p=429"},"modified":"2014-02-19T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:00:26","slug":"wedding-invitationrsvp-card-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/2014\/02\/19\/wedding-invitationrsvp-card-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Invitation\/RSVP Card Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a cool assignment I received a while ago. The idea was to find a wedding gown and then design a wedding invitation\/RSVP card set inspired by it. I already knew what dress to use for this project:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bridal-Shop2_400px.jpg\" alt=\"Bridal Shop2_400px\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bridal-Shop2_400px.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bridal-Shop2_400px-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took this photo of a bridal dress shop window in Seville because the dresses inside were absolutely stunning to me. I never actually gave a thought about my dream wedding until I saw this particular flamenco-styled gown with a gold-embroidered ruffled tiered skirt and a tuft of feathers on the waist. I figured that this is something all brides-to-be experience and I wanted to capture that moment in my invitation set design.<\/p>\n<p>With these thoughts in mind, I decided to design 2 set ideas based on the gown design and  that sentimental context underneath it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/weddingInviteSet01_800px.png\" alt=\"weddingInviteSet01_800px\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-443\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/weddingInviteSet01_800px.png 800w, http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/weddingInviteSet01_800px-300x231.png 300w, http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/weddingInviteSet01_800px-776x600.png 776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This set aims to capture the moment of finding the perfect gown to usher in the bride-to-be&#8217;s new life. The set is a bridal dress shop window where the woman spots the perfect dress for the first time, with the wedding invite doing double-duty as a pocket to hold the RSVP card. The invite info is screen-printed on acetate, the RSVP card is the watercolor painting and information digitally printed on both sides of cardstock, and the RSVP envelope flap has a large scalloped edge to resemble awning over the &#8220;shop window&#8221;. This set aims to customize the bride-to-be&#8217;s special moment, so the dress in the shop window would be any design and not the dress in the photo above.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/weddingInviteSet02_800px.png\" alt=\"weddingInviteSet02_800px\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/weddingInviteSet02_800px.png 800w, http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/weddingInviteSet02_800px-300x231.png 300w, http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/weddingInviteSet02_800px-776x600.png 776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>This set design is more traditional and focuses on the actual gown design. I take the most prominent aesthetic, the ruffled skirt, and incorporated it into a circle invitation. The wedding invite has the same function here; it&#8217;s a pocket for the RSVP card and envelope, which are both a simple square shape using script calligraphy and serif font.<\/p>\n<p>These are just specs, but my crafty-sense is tingling when I look at them and I might try and create live samples of each one. Stay tuned! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a cool assignment I received a while ago. The idea was to find a wedding gown and then design a wedding invitation\/RSVP card set inspired by it. I already knew what dress to use for this project: I took this photo of a bridal dress shop window in Seville because the dresses inside were absolutely stunning to me. I never actually gave a thought about my dream wedding<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn read-more-btn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/2014\/02\/19\/wedding-invitationrsvp-card-set\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}