Contest 50$ - Wedding "Save the Date" Design

Hi!

I am looking for a cool "save the date" design for my wedding next summer.
Just something we could display on a website home page and also send via email.

Our idea: have a cartoon-like map of Europe with small funny characters or monuments for London (where we live), Paris (where we lived before, where all our friends are) and Moscow (where our families come from) + dashed strokes or arrows with little planes/cars/trains coming from these three places towards a little heart located in Vevey, Switzerland, where our wedding will take place. (Maybe Switzerland and the Geneva lake should somehow stand out as the "center of Europe" where we will all meet next summer)

General design should be fun, a bit "cartoonesque" and not too serious/formal, a bit like this picture that we liked a lot (but with map of Europe and Switzerland in the middle):


the text should say:

SAVE THE DATE
Macha&Micha
13 July 2014
Vevey, Switzerland
formal invitation to follow

Text could be anywhere on the picture and doesn't need to be all together. For instance "SAVE THE DATE" could be on the top on a flying banner or something like that.

Also little additional idea we had is to have Macha&Micha all in on colour, except the "a", "&" and "i" that could be another colour to play around how our names are actually similar.

Our wedding colours are pastel blue and peach (see below), they would need to appear but don't need to be the main colours necessarily:



Here is also a file with some additional pictures we liked and potential templates that could be a source of inspiration:
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?res...572&authkey=!AMDJr7YlkbwIBY0&ithint=file,.zip

Finally, this is just the first thing we need for our wedding (ideally this week), but we then look to work more with a winning designer on other designs (formal invitations, RSVPs, "thank you" notes etc.), which will be bigger assignments obviously.

Thanks you very much!
Micha

 

Hi there,
This seems like a fun project,
I will make sure to post a submission shortly!

 

Yeah, it looks very good, anyway, I'll be glad to participate in this contest!

 

count me in - sending the design in some time

 

Hi guys! Really looking forward to seeing your designs Cheers!

 

Hey

Please check my entry.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/j8j20c

Awaiting feedback!

Thanks
KF

 

Count me in I will submit my entry soon.

 

I KF, I don't see your design, the link just leads to this website: http://bulkseocontent.com/samples.html

Do you mind resending it? Thanks
Micha

 

Thanks for submitting this, EVO.
This really looks very similar to the picture I sent over and is not exactly what I had in mind.. it looks nothing like a map of Europe.. Position of the sea and the locations of the little big ben and eiffel tower do not make a lot of sense.. and is this a little leaning tower of pisa in orange? don't really feels like Moscow - Russia...

I really want to have something that will look like an actual map of Europe with Switzerland in the center. Please have a look at the files I sent in the attachment in my initial post if you want to amend/resubmit

Best
Micha

 

Could I know you budget for this?

 

Aha! And I thought the whole time that you want Switzerland, France, UK and Russia in any position, not as they are on the map I did it wrong, but you can check out my design with two mock-ups how does it actually look.

I also added on the map Cannes city and caricatures of you two. Bride's hands are still missing; it is not finished design yet.
The whole design is mine - the only source is website with free flags and Google Maps from where I sketched all countries.

The final file is PSD with around 45 layers

http://chi-nese.com/wp-content/SaveTheDate.rar

Denisa

 

My try hope u like.




Thanks.

 

EVO, the budget is in the title - 50$ via paypal

 

Hi Denisa, thanks for the effort. this is interesting and I can see you put a lot of time and energy in this.
few comments:
- really want it to be a map of Europe, like what muddy786 did.
- the caricatures of us are a good idea but are not very nice/appealing.. (I look really bald here aha)
- you didn't use the wedding colours I indicated in the initial post (pastel blue and peach)

please see the comments I will post in a minute to muddy786's design and let me know in case you want to change yours..

Best
Micha

 

Hi Muddy786!
Thanks a lot for your submission, this is really close to what I had in mind!

Here are a few minor comments – could you implement them?



Just to be clear:

I put the dashed strokes (the roads from Paris/London/Moscow) as I would like them in green so that you could see them, but they shouldn’t be actually green: you can leave them in the same colour (dark peach)

On the ‘road’ from London, could you put a little train? And the little car you already have on the picture could go on the road from Paris

Let me know if you have any question on the comments!!


Best
Micha

 

Thanks for the feedback.Ok I will make the changes soon.
I have understood all but I think didnt get about the background actually cannot read it properly can you please write down for me again ?

 

Here is my revision with diffrent backgrounds.Hope u like any of them.

 

Thanks a lot!! looks very cool!
Anyone else willing to submit/resubmit? I will discuss with my fiance and announce winner tomorrow

 

Thanks for the feedback. I saved all the individual characters of the design, and so I can use it at any other time on other designs.