Wedding Invitations

French Inspired Wedding Invitations

When you say France you say Paris. When you say Paris you say culture, fashion, decorative art, and everything that belongs to esthetics. Paris is known to be the center of European culture since 17^th century and from 19^th on, worldwide. Paris is associated with artistic and intellectual movements that have emerged in the past two centuries, movements that had been generated mostly by foreigners that used to come in Paris due to the “Bohemian” lifestyle. Artists from Spain, Poland, Romania, Russia, USA, Germany, have come to Paris and through their art they gave birth to new styles in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, and poetry. These styles (impressionism, Belle Epoque, Dadaism, Surrealism) have preserved throughout time, because they are known to be the influences that have lead to what represents Paris, and as such France, today.

The most impressive movement of all remains however the one which has generated the Art Nouveau (meaning “new art”) style. It emerged as a reaction to the rigid, flat style of academic art, and introduced elements of flowers and other plant-inspired motifs together with the stylized, flowing curvilinear forms in an attempt to make art a part of daily life.

Considering the background of France’s culture, art and fashion, it is no wonder that wedding couples are very impressed at seeing the French inspired wedding invitations, when it comes to selecting a type of invitation card for their wedding. The motifs that we meet in the French old-style architecture, with the swirls and complex graphics, make the object of their style to decorate a wedding invitation.

If your wedding ceremony has a theme related to the French tradition and history, then the right choice for you is to pick up the wonderfully designed French style invitations. The patterns such as Damask, Fleur de Lis, Toile carry the brand of French style and if they are printed on different colors like mocha, ivory, tints like soft pink or light tiffany-blue they can even work wonder thus making a perfect match to the traditional bridal colors.

The graphic designers have managed to create a multitude of decorations for the invitation cards, since there are so many motifs to get inspired from: floral motifs, peacock’s feathers, stylized leaves, fleur-de-lis, all these conferring an elegant subtlety to the wedding cards. Another type of French inspired wedding invitation is the one that uses replica of paintings belonging to famous painters. The impressionism style in the painting was one of the artistic movements that celebrated the light in its changing qualities, reflecting the human perception of the world around and put an accent on unusual visual angles.

Using the French artistic style in creating the wedding invitations, the graphic designers know that they will confer the note of refinement, classic, elegance to the wedding cards, thus their art can speak for itself and become a success on the invitation cards’ market.