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When meeting a couple for wedding invitations, I love hearing the story about how they met, the courtship and the engagement.  I find that it really helps me gain insight into who the people really are, and aids in the design process, especially when you’re creating something original and one of a kind.

I had the opportunity to meet an amazing couple a few months ago down in San Diego, Vanessa and Lee.  Childhood friends in Seattle, they didn’t know that their friendship would turn into something bigger.  They realized one summer, after hanging out day after day, that they wanted to become “boyfriend” and “girlfriend.”  But as the fates would have it, they would face one of the biggest challenges a lot of couples go through, DISTANCE.  Luckily for them, they were able to maintain their strong bond while Lee was in Seattle and Vanessa lived in Japan.  Lee even traveled to Japan to be Vanessa’s prom date!  If that’s not love and commitment, I don’t know what is!  As the years passed, they both ended up in San Diego, falling in love all over again by going to concerts, sporting events and finally being together in the same place.

Their story was so touching that I really wanted to incorporate it into their invitation.  I wanted to create something that was different, that told the story about them, but was still fitting with their ideas of having a very modern, cool and fun wedding.  The invite might just look like a large “L” and “V,” but if you look closer it’s made up of little symbols that tell their story, in a fun but unique way.  It suggests all of these little icons make them up as individuals, but all together it represents them as a couple, bound together by a circle of trust called marriage.