Project: Yonce Wedding Campaign
While most of the work for this wedding was sourced through a separate company, I was asked to fulfill a few areas that brought the wedding to a complete experience. While food was provided for the guests, a comprehensive menu was needed to help guests determine which foods contained allergens. A large seating chart was also needed to help the 200 guests seat themselves.
Software/Tools Used:
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom
Canon EOS R Mirrorless Camera
Process
With a quick turnaround time of about a week, I had to work quickly to account for all the communication between the bride & I and printing the two deliverables. I was given the colors and a general feel of the existing aesthetic. For the seating chart, I researched wedding fonts and eventually landed on a flourishing title font, a serif font for the letter groups, and an attractive and digestible sans serif font for the body. Organizing nearly 200 names in a single page layout is challenging, especially if it is meant to be easy to read. To improve navigability, I arranged all the names alphabetically (by surname) and placed them in groups headed with the first letter of each last name. A number was set beside each name to indicate which table they were to sit.
The menu was designed to match the formality of the event and printed to fit three across a landscape 8.5”x11” to conserve on paper while maintaining a healthy white space balance. In addition to the size and weight, the title text was colored and given a unique font to draw attention to the start of the visual hierarchy. Each course of the meal was grouped and sectioned off appropriately with sub headers utilizing an elegant serif font. Each meal option was denoted with all caps and a thin sans-serif font to further draw attention to each option. A brief description of the meal was included beneath in tinted italics to support but not draw too much attention from the food titles.
Since I was a member of the celebration, I took several pictures in large part to practice with my Canon EOS R Mirrorless camera. I took most of the pictures before the ceremony to capture the unaltered decorations. I was asked to refrain from photographing during the ceremony until the pronouncement. The bride’s family also requested several of my pictures after, which received light edits using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
Takeaways
Weddings are one of the most popular gigs in both design and photography. I was delighted to have this opportunity included in my freelance experience, especially considering the high volume of attendees using the professional grade material for their use. This was also a great opportunity to work with clients who may be less familiar with graphic design principles, which certainly helped me understand how to best communicate with external groups. I also enjoyed the design intimacy by providing a highly tailored piece.