AMY HAYASHI AND SHENAN BROWN
October 2, 2006

Enchanted forest...

When Amy and Shen first told me about their vision for their wedding, I knew instantly that I would LOVE creating their invitations. For their garden/forest theme, they wanted to incorporate lots of greens and browns while working in elements of nature. I had so many ideas to share with them, but we were also faced with a bit of a time crunch and had all of two weeks to nail down the design and have the invitations ready to mail! Thanks to my amazing paper distributors and the quick responses I got from Amy and Shen in our daily emails/phone calls, we were able to come up with a beautiful, and absolutely unique, invitation design.

INVITATION (FRONT)
We chose a textured fiber leaf green mulberry paper for the invitation shell. I softened the edges by hand-tearing them, and glued a 3" skeleton bo leaf to the left panel. To add just a bit of elegance, three crystal rhinestones were glued to the leaf.

INVITATION (INSIDE)
We selected a bronze metallic backing for contrast and used this same paper for the custom die-cut tree branch. We went through many iterations of the branch until we got just the right angle and thickness. To bring the branch to life, three ivory paper flowers accented with crystal rhinestones were added, as well as a handful of leaves cut from the same green mulberry paper. To help frame the invitation panel, a 3/8" border of Japanese cane paper was added to the top and bottom.