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The
Invitation - One of the surprises of the
wedding was that our Japanese guests all started
calling our wedding a "tezukuri wedding" which
means "home-made". Certainly Midori and I wanted
our guests to feel relaxed and at home (to the
extent possible!), but we didn't expect everyone to
start calling it home-made! We believed that our
wedding should be a community event, and many of
our close friends volunteered to help us make it
all happen. Although Midori didn't bake her own
wedding cake or sew her own wedding dress, I picked
up on the home-made theme by making the invitations
and wedding pamphlets at our kitchen
table.
The invitations
were a work of love: I had had some experience
making invitations for my sister's and Roger &
Lisa's wedding, but this time I got to make a
special invitation for my own bride! I played
around with some design ideas until I finally came
up with the design we used. In keeping with the
Japanese theme of the wedding, I chose fine
Japanese papers for their colour and brilliance,
and the fold of the card was to suggest the fold of
a Japanese Kimono. Both
Christina and Midori will concur that there are
many, many different variables involved in
selecting papers, typefaces, layouts,
etc.
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