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Brandon D Hunt and Scott Andrew Salchli Wedding Invitations

June 21, 2014
Hunt Wedding Inviations
The one that started it all...

Back in 2013 when I proposed to my husband, the only wedding invitations you could find for two men were... garish. WHY did everyone think that just because you were a gay couple getting married, you would automatically want rainbows on EVERYTHING? Don't get me wrong: I like rainbows, I LOVE them during Pride...but wedding invitations that look like Lisa Frank designed them just weren't what my husband and I had in mind.

We talked about what we wanted, and I had the idea to make them a die-cut project inspired by a papercraft piece I'd seen on Pinterest by Jonathan Shackleton. My husband took a huge leap of faith and let me make the invitations, knowing full well that I would either go crazy or make them EPIC. I bought Jonathan's template through Behance, and then completely redesigned it to make it work as an invitation. One of my goals was to make them without using glue; and I almost did it. The only pieces that needed glue were the bow ties; everything else was held together by tabs and slits I'd engineered into the die line.

I hand-cut more than 130 of them from March to May 2014, making three or four every night (and went through a LOT of X-Acto blades).

The white shirt (the first fold-out section) had two different versions; one for the small group of people we invited to attend our wedding ceremony in Davenport, IA, and a second for everyone we invited to our wedding reception (i.e., excuse to party) a month later in Atlanta. The other three pieces were identical and listed the details for our wedding website, Atlanta reception and wedding registry.

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Did I mention we won a HOW Award for them? (Go about halfway down the page and look under "Personal Promotions")

Or that these invitations are the reason I got the job at ROAR Groupe?

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And for anyone curious: as soon as my husband said, "Yes" after I proposed, I asked if I could take his last name when we got married. Although the alliteration of "Scott Salchli" worked well for 37 years, I was OVER the number of times people misspelled or mispronounced my last name ("Salchli" rhymes with "broccoli"—the "a-l-c-h" is pronounced like the "a-l-k" in "chalk"). I was really tired of "Salklee," "Saulchlee," "Zalicki" (my personal favorite [WTF "Z"?]) and "Socklee."

"Scott Hunt" is foolproof...although the State of Georgia gave me one heck of a time changing it.

BONUS

What it looks like to make 130+ bow ties in one evening...plus one of my favorite photos from our wedding day. Our Best Men look SO amused.

Tagged: award winner | gay | invitations | super gay
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