For this wedding stationery suite, the bride wanted her Persian heritage and love of florals and greenery highlighted in each element. The ceremony was a beautiful blend of two cultures and truly unique to the couple, and each piece of the full wedding suite displays that – the designs highlight and honor the bride’s heritage and the couple’s own personal love story.
These designs were created for a recent bride who wanted to honor her Persian heritage at her wedding. For the invitation, I hand-illustrated common Persian flowers that the bride loves, such as saffron and pomegranate. The frame features a matte gold foil border. The bride and groom wanted to keep the text fairly simple, so we opted for mostly non-script font.
I hand-illustrated this floral wreath for their save-the-dates as the bride loves ferns and greenery, and it reflects their proposal location – by the creek where they first became a couple.
The Sofreh Aghd is a Persian wedding tradition. Each item on the table symbolizes a blessing for the couple and their soon-to-be marriage. The bride wanted to create a guide for non-Persian guests explaining what each item symbolized.
She sent me photographs of each item and I composited them into this custom illustration. The bride was extremely happy with how this illustration turned out and it will be cherished as a keepsake! I am honored that I was able to create a piece of custom artwork that meant so much to her.
I also created a custom, hand-illustrated paisley pattern for the couple’s wedding program, based on images of Persian tablecloths and tapestries shared with me by the bride. Paired with the reds of the overall wedding color palette, the colors used in this border are pulled directly from these traditional tapestries. I truly had so much fun drawing and coloring each little detail in this border.
The bride and groom used part of their programs to describe the traditional Persian rituals that would be performed as part of their wedding ceremony and reception, as shown below.
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