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The Invitations: Part 2

I realized that I never even got to show you our Chinese invitations! They were definitely a challenge, but I am pretty pleased with how they came out!

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The boy’s parents are not fluent in English, and many of our guests speak Cantonese, so we had the invitation translated (you can see it above.) I do not know Chinese, so we hired the lovely folks at H2 Cards in San Francisco to help me. They made it really easy by sending me a file (and our parents to proof,) which I then placed in my own design. If you are in need of a Chinese translation, I highly recommend them!

These are offset printed and not letterpress, but I still wanted to make them look fancier, so I wrapped each one in a doily using a bone folder and had these custom stickers made from Mau Studio. I love the stickers so much, and the designer even threw in some extras!

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This is how it looks fresh from the envelope! I have a whole lot of doilies now. I bought them in a 500 pack from Paper Mart.

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{The full set!}

Design: Me
Printing: H2 Cards/Catprint
Chinese Translation: H2 Cards
Doilies: Paper Mart
Stickers: Mau Studio

Is anyone else doing multilingual invitations?

Posted 07/21/2010 by
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  1. Marilyn's Keepsakes writes... {July 21, 2010 at 10:57 am}
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    That is absolutely beautiful…what an awesome comprimise. I’m sure it was greatly appreciated!

  2. Alicia writes... {July 21, 2010 at 1:56 pm}
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    I absolutely love your creativity & invites! I think I want to copy your idea of using the doilies to wrap the invites in. What size did you buy? Thanks!

  3. LA girl writes... {July 21, 2010 at 3:55 pm}
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    Those are fantastic! Too bad I won’t be using bilingual invites even though I’m Chinese American. I’m a 3rd generation, and nobody can read Chinese anymore. Congrats on your designing skills!

  4. Richard from Purplest writes... {July 22, 2010 at 3:20 pm}
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    Very nice! Keep up the great work!

    Since our company is based in Montreal, Canada, most of the invitations we create are bilingual.

    Our own wedding invitations have three versions: English-French, French-Vietnamese and English-Vietnamese (!)

  5. Crystal writes... {July 27, 2010 at 10:13 pm}
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    So beautiful, this invitation is a combination of Chinese and Western styles, and the envelope is embellished with double happiness which is a wish for happy and reunion. I love this design.
    .-= Crystal’s most recent blog post: Faboulous Wedding Fireworks for Your Perfect Wedding! =-.

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