Thursday 20 March 2008

Wedding stationery invitations

Wedding stationery invitations Desired designs unique creative ideas


A couple of years ago, a very good friend of mine asked me to design his wedding invitations for him. His fiancee had been looking for something alternative and unique and as I was known for being a bit of a scribbler I decided to design some illustrated ideas for the front of their invites.

The invites turned out really well and I ended up producing the rest of his wedding stationery including the evening invitations, thank yous and an order of service for them. I got some really nice comments from the couples family and friends (I even got a round of applause at the wedding during my friends speech!)

A few months later another friend asked me to do something for his invitations, so I illustrated him and the bride outside the church for the day invites and dancing under a glitter ball for the evening invites. I decided to put my phone number on the back (just in case!), and I ended up getting a couple more orders out of it.

I started to think I may have the beginnings of a little business idea. So I came up with a name desired designs and I asked a friend from University to build me a little website so I can put some examples on and explain what I did. I slowly started to get some inquiries and orders with people asking for very different things (some people were very specific others left me to do the design from scratch) and I began to realize that what I was offering was not only creative wedding invitations and stationery but also I was giving the client the opportunity to be part of the design process, encouraging them to add there own ideas, creating something completely bespoke, unique and personal to them and their guests. I try to keep my policy of doing something different for everyone (unless a client specifically asks for something similar to a previous invitation), which means all my customers receive wedding stationery that no one else will have.

It occurred to me that unlike some businesses I am not location dependent, meaning as long as my clients have email and a digital camera they can be anywhere in the world and can illustrate them from their photographs.

I am now on the third version of the website and over the last year I have had orders from not only the UK but also the US, Greece, Turkey and even Australia. And what started out as a favor to a friend is quickly turned into desired designs wedding stationary invitations that are creative, illustrated and unique.

Wedding stationery invitations