I obsess. Over everything. It’s a well-known fact. Most of the time, I like to imagine that it adds to my charm, my character, my overall interestingness.
Sometimes it makes me want to poke my eyes out.
As an artist (ugh, that sounds so pompous), I felt that I needed to design all of our paper goods or I’d kick myself. So, I’m designing all of our paper goods. There’s a catch-22 in that I’ve also been kicking myself for making that decision! I’ve been obsessing, obsessing, researching, obsessing, and making mock-up after mock-up after mock-up for months and months and months. I’ve nearly driven myself mad over it.
Fast forward to fairly recently, when a sort of calm idea passed through my brain while drooling over Max Wanger‘s work. He does some beautiful things with text and photographs for his blog posts. I thought that it [the style] would be an awesome way to approach our paper goods. It could be quirky and fun, but also a simple enough design not to drive me bananas.
Today I made a few mock-ups of possible save-the-dates. One is posted at the beginning of this post, and the other is going, well, right after I finish this paragraph. (I also realize that the second one doesn’t have any “formal invitation to follow” jazz on it. These are really really early stages).
I also need to figure out a way to have our wedding website plunked on there without getting too wordy. Maybe I’ll throw in another small card or a (hello, I’m now a wedding-sheep) magnet.
I envision these printed digitally on heavy, thick, matte, and grainy stock and sent out in kraft envelopes.
So ‘fess up. Who else obsessed for MONTHS over a detail only to solve it in an afternoon? Or, is this a totally lame idea and should I scrap it entirely?
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