Quilled Wedding Invitation and Quaker Marriage Certificate

It's been a while since I last posted about quilled wedding projects, but I've been busy with invitations and marriage certificates behind the scenes. For this one, the bride's mother contacted me to quill her daughter and son-in-law's invitation as an anniversary present, appropriate because paper is the traditional first year gift.

She loved this modern design, but asked if I could modify it to include white roses, hydrangeas, and Scottish thistles. The couple's wedding colors were aubergine and silver.

I punched and shaped tiny, textured foil flowers to create rounded hydrangea blossoms and used shades of purple and burgundy paper to make quilled flowers that complement those on the invitation.

The bride's mother wrote to say she had it professionally framed in a silver frame and the couple loves it!

You might remember the first woodland marriage certificate I did a few years ago for an autumn wedding. Recently a couple asked for the same design, but because theirs would be a summer wedding, I used a lighter, brighter color palette. It was fun to revisit feathered and furry creatures.

The wedding colors were indigo and ivory. The certificate itself is a warm white hot press watercolor paper and I made the birds a mix of rich blues.

Riva Brown of Living Letters Studio did the beautiful hand lettering; we often collaborate on Quaker marriage certificates and ketubot. By the way, Riva has a new blog [edit: no longer available] that I'm enjoying. She writes about calligraphy and art processes.