The 2005 ISES Esprit Celebration...



Awards Program, front cover



RSVP Card and Envelope



Itinerary



Personalized Menu/Place Card

Custom designed Awards Gala Programs

Winner of the:

-  2006 ISES/NACE Allie Award
    Best Use of Media/Technology
 

THE EVENT
The event was the International Special Event Society's Esprit Awards.  This year, it was being held in Hollywood, and the stars and glitz .  Everything was in black and white, including the Awards program.  And to kick the Program up a notch, it was decided

PLANNING
My part in this grand event began when I was flown to beautiful Sarasota Florida to meet the bride, her fiancé, and her parents, get a feel for the bride's personality and style, and to listen as well as participate in a free flow of thoughts and ideas as we toured the selected wedding venues. 

EXPECTATIONS
The bride, a fashion designer whose creations are worn by singer/pop-star Britney Spears wanted an elegant but fun, eclectic wedding in shades of pewter, sable brown, retro hot line green and creamy grayish-white, with subtle influences from Persia, Russia and the Orient in honor of their guests from Iraq, Europe, China and America.  The bride expressed her desire for: an invitation in a box; 'tons and tons of texture;' silver Christian crosses and Swarovski Crystals; and her disdain for bows and preference for knotted ribbons.  The bride and groom, her parents, and the professional planners agreed at once that the wedding plans, and the thousands of miles guests as far away as China would travel to attend the wedding demanded a collector's quality 'Got to Be There' Invitation and Collateral Print Pieces produced by - US! 

PROJECT DESIGN
This project required me to create several different wedding pieces that could stand alone in their own right, but were linked by design, color, material and font.  I felt the infusion of Persian, Russian and Oriental influences should be subtle and intrinsic in the design.  For that reason, I selected handmade Japanese, Thai and American papers in shades of pewter, soft white with accents of blush and seal brown.  The end result was a wedding print package that thrilled our client and whose beauty, unique look and quality handcrafting will provide serious bragging rights for years to come.

CHALLENGES
Client communication is key to any custom project.  In this case the person for whom we were creating, the bride - was hard to corner for creative chats.  She was a busy, working fashion designer who was constantly flying here, there and overseas nearly every day.

WEDDING DELIVERABLES
The Electronic Pencil custom designed and handcrafted the following items for this wedding:

-  Boxed Wedding Invitations
-  Tinned Itineraries
-  Wedding Programs
-  Personalized Menu/Place Cards
-  Monogrammed Certificate Envelopes
-  Six-foot long Hand-stenciled, Monogrammed Aisle Runner
 

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