Wedding Invitations

Wedding Invitations Black And White

Long before colored photographs came into our lives, there was the black and white photo to fill the empty frames that populated the walls of our houses or the shelves of our living rooms. But soon after the colored image was brought into our daily existence, a dark period of oblivion spread over the black and white world of photography or movie; and this has lasted for several years, when suddenly it was discovered that actually black and white effect on a photo delivers a powerful impact on the viewers in a way that colored image fails to do. As it was recently proved, the professionals and long-time dedicated photographers have never left the world of processing and manipulating the black and white art of photography and this because they have understood the real value and beauty of a black and white image.




The catch here is due to the fact that a black and white photo is a long lasting one and more resistant to fading. The advertising field has also found that black and white photo can deliver a sense of reality with a type of imagery that color can be absolutely distracting. Nowadays there isn’t even a respectable café-bar or home to do without a black and white or sepia images hanging on the wall. The more and more usage of black and white effect on photos became so popular that it is considered already a “look” and an identifier of taste. In this respect, monochrome is seen as a stylistic trend but at the same time a revealing one, being given the status of authenticity thought to be related to the past “correctly” captured.

Plenty of photographers go by the opinion that black and white give the image a sense of age together with the feeling of a patina outlining a certain aura confined in the frames of the image. This is what makes a black and white greeting card, for instance, to transmit a stunning visual effect with a unique grasp of drama caught in the displayed image. This is the reason why wedding couples prefer to have in their wedding albums more black and white photos.

This is also the reason why young couples, while deciding to start planning the details for their wedding celebration, choose wedding invitations black and white to be sent to their family and friends and announce them about the happy event. These invitation cards may be beautifully created in black and white aspect of the design (with geometric or floral motifs to fill the borders of the card) or applying black and white photo of the young couple, in the attempt to deliver “something old, something new” to their invitees.

The message of a wedding invitation black and white could be seen as the old time of the past becoming a new time of the future, a new time brought into the couple’s life in the form of a marriage, which is actually the object of the celebration to which everybody is asked to attend in a joyful and happy spirit