I won’t apologize — I like to touch things. I’m bad in sculpture museums! I like the feel of different textures. I love the contrast of velvety smooth and nubbly surfaces together. Just can’t help it…
I’m aware that some “green” folks frown on printed wedding invitations, that’s okay, that’s their prerogative. Just, please, do not tell me I can’t have a sumptuous wedding invitation in my hand. Don’t tell me that I can’t wrap a delightfully textured pocketfold binder around a satiny smooth invitation, all tied up with a fat satin ribbon or an earthy raffia tie. You can email all you want, you can send out meeting notes in pdfs, but please don’t E-VITE your wedding invitations! This is a once-in-a-lifetime (optimistically speaking!) event that really does deserve a special bit of sensual attention. When I put together my wedding invitations, I imagine a guest receiving one — first spying a heavy, beautifully addressed envelope in with all the junk mail and bills; seeing the return address and next opening this special package and finding the wonderful news that a friend or loved one is about to take a huge life step — how momentous! You would leave this to email? Please don’t!
Life is texture, real life is a buffet of sights, sounds and sensate experiences. In designing my wedding invitations, shower invitations, etc. I seek to combine as much sensuality as possible — a velvety smooth cardstock, a rough textured seashell, rich or subtle color and a shimmering metallic pocketfold. For this one-time event, go all out, go on …… be a sensualist and let your own exuberance for your wedding, your marriage, your life-alterring commitment just explode. You’ll feel so good!
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