My Brain on Hyperdrive

Now that the wedding is over and I don't need to worry about any unexpected guests showing up, I can share the invitations I designed. I was really happy with how they turned out and got a lot of great feedback. You might remember from our Save the Date cards that our reception was a game theme. So I designed the invitations to look like playing cards. The main part of the invitation features the King and Queen of hearts. I found some text online that I liked and edited it a bit to fit our event. Here's what the main invitation final product looked like: Since we also needed to include the addresses for the church, reception, and hotel, I made an Ace of hearts card, too. (Get it? 'A' for address?) I also wanted to include a map since we'd have a lot of out of town guests. I know most people have a GPS these days, but it just seemed like a good idea. For the map, I saved a screenshot of the area in Google Maps, then traced over the lines I wanted in P...

I love that people shorten "Save The Date" to STD. It makes me laugh. In case you're curious, we had a few other options for our STDs. The least liked option was this one: The biggest thing that wasn't liked about this one was the lack of a picture of the two of us. Other than that, I thought it was cute and clever. Next option: This was actually the first one that I created, this game being the first that came to mind. But it just didn't have anything special about it and seemed a little boring in the end. Also, rolling the dice has nothing to do with the game, so it bugged me a bit. I just couldn't come up with anything better. This one was the number 2 choice: This one was actually the first choice for a couple people, but not mine. It had the biggest picture and people liked the idea of finding the missing pieces. Which one do you like best? Would you have made the same choice?

We're having a board game themed wedding. Neither of us is really into dancing, so we decided to have the reception at an adult arcade/restaurant. Once we had the venue reserved for our desired date, the next order of business was sending out Save the Date cards. A lot of our families will be traveling for the wedding, so we wanted to give them as much notice as possible. We also wanted to stick with the theme. This is what I designed using Photoshop and some ideas I found online: Can you name the game that inspired this design?