so in the last post i covered the making of the invites for my friend's wedding in march. after that was done, i then designed the bonbonierre, orders of service, menus and table numbers. it was such a big job! it was my own fault though - i suggested the bonbonierre vinyl-sticker idea and so gave myself more work!

the first and biggest job was the bonbonierre. i previously worked for a company that did a lot of signage, so lots of self-adhesive vinyl (sav) printing, so i knew a bit about it. the original idea was to use votives as bonbonierre and wrap them in translucent paper, but printing on translucent paper has its issues. so i suggested the sav print wrap for the votives. this proved to be harder than i thought, since the glasses, although looking like they had straight sides, were actually a bit slanted, meaning that the design had to be an arc. oh man, i had to pull out my old maths knowledge to design that one - i tried wrapping the votive with contact, but that was fairly messy and inaccurate (and i am nothing if not a perfectionist!).



in the end, i managed to get a nice arc, which i then had to get the design to fit (it had to arc too). after a few annoying test prints, i finally got one that was perfect - it joined together perfectly, and appeared to be parallel to the glass all around!!



this is my little votive:

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