I have no real desire to get married. Even if I do get married one day, I have absolutely no desire to plan a wedding. My plan is to get eloped in a courthouse, have a nice meal after, and then go on a lavish honeymoon. That being said, I do love graphic design.

I used Canva to create my wedding invitation. I choose a minimalist design with some art deco elements. I found a picture of a bride from behind with brown hair so that I didn’t have to find a way to take a picture of myself in a wedding dress. Next was to figure out who I would be marrying. As I swirled the wine in my glass, a realization hit me. The most popular product at Trader Joe’s is their three-dollar wine, also known as “Three-Buck Chuck”. The official name for the brand is Charles Shaw. Unless someone knew off the top of their head that it is the name of a wine, they would think that it was the name of an actual person. Thus, my husband to be was chosen.

Our wedding reception will take place at Trader Joe’s in Charlottesville, VA. For more information, please call the number on the invitation, which coincidently, is the store’s number.

I had so much fun making this wedding invite. It was a really cool idea and a great one to play around with to make something goofy. It was kinda relaxing to do and have fun with. It didn’t feel like work and it was really funny to come up with some ideas about who’s save the date would be created.

My roommate and I both loved the show Once Upon A Time and were totally obsessed with the character Hook. So, naturally, I had to make a save the date card for my roommate and Hook. I saved a photo of Hook and took a head shot of my roommate to make my invite.

This was the final outcome!

Parks and Recreation is one of my favorite sitcoms and so when I was trying to think of a fictional couple to create a wedding invitation for, Leslie and Ben came to mind. This design assignment is worth 3 stars and asks you to create a wedding invitation as if you were going to be married. I didn’t think that was as fun, so I decided to go another way and created invitations to Leslie and Ben’s wedding celebration instead.

Why wedding celebration rather than the wedding itself, you ask? Well, if you watched the show you will know that they get married spontaneusly, months before their planned wedding. Due to this, I imagined the happy couple celebrating with friends and family over waffles at Leslie’s favorite place, JJ’s Diner. I couldn’t figure out the date they actually said “I do”, so I decided to plan the party for 10 days after the air date of the episode and call it a day.

I used Canva to create the design, knowing waffles would be the central theme. I used colors based on the waffle design I settled on to complete the rest of the design, used the Float text feature to help the wording stand out more, and added texture to the white portion as it literally fell flat without it.

I think Leslie would approve.

For one of my projects from the assignment bank this week I chose to design my wedding invitation. I chose this assignment for many reasons. Mainly, like a lot of people I have dreamed about my wedding since a little girl. Pinterest boards, girl talk, watching weddings, and everything in between. I also chose this because I have a lot of experience using Canva as a design platform. I am also a lover of the bachelor so I’m marrying Ben Higgins (If you know, you know). I chose the geometric pattern and the flowers to draw attention to the middle words. I created it where the names were bigger and bolded so that the reader immediately knows who is getting married. I think that the colors are very inviting and fit the appropriate wedding theme with the flowers.

For my first design assignment this week, I decided to do Wedding Invitation. One of my favorite things to think about is my wedding, so I was really excited to do this assignment!

Another thing that I am super obsessed with is the bachelor franchise. I have been watching it with my friends since freshman year and we never miss a week. On the last season of the Bachelorette, there was a guy on there named Tyler Cameron. When he was first introduced I fell in love with him. He did not end up winning which was really sad.

So when I was thinking about who I would put on this wedding invitation since I am not dating anyone at the moment, I decided to put Tyler Cameron. I was really excited to get started designing the wedding invitation.

I start by looking through all the templates on Canva to find the perfect one. I finally found one and start customizing it to my wedding. I also had to figure out when I wanted to get married and where. The where was pretty easy, I love the Silk Mill downtown and would love to get married there one day. It is very rustic and so beautiful! The when was a little bit harder. I know that I wanted an early fall wedding so I decided to just look through my calendar and landed on September 26, 2020.

I love working on this assignment and I was really fun to be able to dream about my future wedding!

3.5 Stars

This assignment was harder than I thought. Canva has so many different styles to choose from. It took longer than I thought it would to choose a style. I’m really happened with how the final product looks!

For the 10-star-worth design assignments, I decided to do create my own wedding invitation. I used the computer applications paint and PicMonkey to do so. I created a pink-salmon color layout on paint, then transferred it to PicMonkey, where I added a “wedding style” banner and text. It was a difficult assignment in the sense that it was hard to choose exactly what I wanted on the invitation, but easy to create.

I then asked my boyfriend if it was fine to use him as my fiance for the assignment. He said it was a-okay!