Italian Designed Wedding Invitations

Italy! The place that people see as being the best location offered for many couples to spend their romantic times, or people spending their holidays and newly weds to choose as a place to host their honeymoons. There is this saying which I took it all the time as the relevant motto for the people's choice to spend their leisure moments: "See Roma and die". Only soon upon the receiving of my friend's wedding invitation I realized that actually the saying is applied to the city of Naples, and not Rome.

So the saying was originally "See Napoli (Naples) and die" and was issued due to the fact that Naples, in its displaying, was a city that offered almost everything a person was supposed to live in his lifetime, and the moment one reaches Naples and breathes its air to the fullest, then he could die. But because nowadays the best choice of visiting Italy is considered to be the city of Rome, the quotation applies to this city, most of the people thinking that it happens like this also because Rome is the object of so many other sayings: "All roads lead to Rome", "Rome wasn't built in a day", etc.

This quotation I have found, as mentioned before, on the wedding invitation my friend's has sent me. And I have also found that she was planning to have her wedding organized in Italy, in the city of Naples. It is an Italian designed wedding invitation, with Italian location of a church named "Gesu Nuovo" that has a depiction of the church's interior - a displaying of multi-colored marble, altars inlaid with stones that look precious enough is designated as the place for the wedding's ceremony. I couldn't help myself from asking how much this wedding must have cost them, though I knew that the invitees weren't that many, but yet...

My friend's Italian designed wedding invitation, displaying the Baroque characteristics with their stylized floral motifs disposed in an intricacy of shapes and colors. The background of the front side of the wedding card is a warm ivory tint crossed by a wide damask ribbon depicting the elaborate motifs in elegant black and gold colors adding a note of intense value of classic next to the old perfume of nostalgia exhaled by the times of big changes that Renaissance brought into the social, cultural, artistic life of a medieval Italy. Not to mention that the Baroque style of the wording revealed a handwriting that has definitely created with the bare hand without the help of any PC's editing fonts.

The overall impression was of an invitation that was thoroughly conceived with the purpose to introduce everything from the perspective of an Italian spiritual feeling which where else is the best depicted if not in the unfolding of history that leaves traces in the environment that surrounds the everyday life of the Italian citizen.

I was more than thrilled the moment I had received the wedding invitation; I grabbed the phone and announced my attendance, congratulating her for the upcoming event and for the brilliant choice of a wedding celebrated in the place that breathes romance and history on areas that are so small that sometimes give you the feeling of being overwhelmed with a volume of sensations that are both generated and supported by the scent and heaviness of history.