Wedding Invitations are an intrinsic part of any Wedding Ceremony. It is the first thing that your guests see before they plan to come to your festivities. Wedding Invitations leave a lasting impression on the minds of your guests. A quirky invitation is sure to linger in people's memory for a long time, and some may even choose them as souvenirs or memorabilia, from your wedding events. Gone are the days when the only proper method of getting an invitation designed, was by approaching a typical printing press, which would show you a catalogue of their most popular and regularly used designs, to pick from. Conventional invitation cards with silver/ golden borders, or images of gods and goddesses, have become slightly outdated with time. In the digital era, people are leaning more towards digital invitations or E-invites and videos instead of the typical boxed/ unboxed invites, that are not only expensive due to their use of ink, print and copying, but also because of the postal charges that apply when you have to send them to far off places, where your friends and relatives reside. With options of digital, customized wedding invitations taking the lead, more and more small-time artists are coming to the forefront with their unique ideas and customization services. These artists are usually individuals who are either trained in graphic designing, or have practiced their hands on various digital softwares. Along with the digital art invites, there is also another category of wedding invitations, which has gained a lot of lime light in recent times. These are the craftsy handmade invitations. These invitations are very unique and quirky, as they are not mass produced from a fixed set of designs, but are rather, curated to suit the needs of the couple. Both the digital invites, and the craftsy handmade invites are gaining more and more attention for their adaptability to include customized preferences. These artists actually take the effort of understanding the story of the couple who is getting married, and try to incorporate that into the art of the wedding invitations. From couple caricatures, to comics narrative, to video invitations, to incorporation of personal art, there is no quirky element that is out of bounds for these artists. You tell them your requirements, and they can create anything depending on your needs. Unlike the big time invitation printers and showrooms, who have more footfall in their brick and mortar stores, these artists offer their services through the means of social media. They have created their portfolios on media like Instagram and Youtube. You can go through the pictures and videos of their previous works to decide what kind of style is it that you would like to incorporate in your wedding invitation. They not only display their work profiles on social media, but also take orders online as well. You can get in touch with them through their DMs or through their contact details mentioned in their bio, and let them know about the specifications for your invitations. The best thing about the invitations created by these artists is that they are intimate, personalized, and very unique to your story as a couple. These artists ensure that you receive the exact design and creatives that you want your cards to depict. While these artists may not be doing a large bulk of orders, they are perfect if you are planning to have an intimate wedding. Each artist will have their own limits, and thus you will usually find the information about their acceptance of orders from time to time, on their social media handles. Since these cards are carefully curated by individual artists, you will need to inform them in advance , so they have enough time to create your personalized master pieces. Without further ado, let's dive into the list of quirky artists to approach for your Custom Made Wedding Invitations.
Roshstocks is a Goa based wedding invitation artist, who creates custom made Save the Dates, E Invites and Wedding Invitation Videos for your wedding requirements. She usually creates caricature style invites. Her work incorporates the caricatured images of the bride and groom, along with the important information that is necessary to be included in any wedding invitation. She also makes unique invitation videos that are composed of bride groom cartoons, texts depicting some background about the story of the bride and groom, and beautiful and interesting animations, accompanied by background music that is perfect for the particular invitation. She also creates themed wedding cards, which can incorporate the designs as per your choice of theme, and matches it with the outfits that she chooses to design for the couple figurines in her cards. She takes orders from both India and abroad. Her Save the Dates are usually small video clippings that announce the upcoming nuptials of a particular couple. Since her custom invitations are made using graphic designing and digital art, these invites and videos are good for circulation through the mediums of Email, Whatsapp, Instagram, and any other applications that support audio visual sharing. You can share picture references with her, based on which she creates beautiful portraits for the invitations, and other wedding stationery. She also creates invitations and cards for other festivities including birthdays, anniversaries, and baby showers. Her invitations can also be created as PDF files, so you can easily share them with your friends and relatives. To make her beautiful invitations, she uses referral images, prescribed themes, and mood boards, to give you the perfect card for your wedding. If you want to take a look at her work profile you can explore her social media profile on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/roshstocks. You can DM her for inquiries and bookings.
Faraah Sharif is a Lahore based customized wedding invitation artist. Her Shadinameh is a popular wedding invitation brand among those who especially appreciate handmade custom designs. She offers Shaadi cards, Banners, Standees, Bid boxes, Stickers, Envelopes and Wedding stationery. The designs made by her are in the graphic format. She illustrates her invites, save the dates and other wedding stationery using the caricature style of portraits. She is open to receiving international orders. Her wedding invitations and cards are available both in digital as well as print form, and you can place your orders for either one or both types of wedding stationery. She also offers personalized bid boxes, which are basically customized wedding favour boxes with bride- groom illustrations on them, and can be used for gifting purposes in your wedding events like wedding ceremony, engagement, or wedding reception. She also creates cute and customized shagun envelopes, with cartoonish images of the bride and groom, so you can get personalized envelopes to give to the newly wed couple. She also creates invitation series, while maintaining a certain theme for each ceremony. Her style of art is usually extremely vibrant and colourful, but she can also do minimalist and subtle designs, depending on your specific needs. She tries to incorporate those elements in her illustrations, which reflect the personality of the couple. She also creates combination invitations, which reveal the itinerary of each event that will take place on different days and the venues for the events during the wedding festivities. She receives orders from couples from different religious, and cultural backgrounds, from all around the world, and she makes sure that each card is customized by incorporating their cultural elements in the illustrations. You can look at her work profile on https://www.instagram.com/shadinameh/ , and you can DM her for queries or booking your orders in advance.
Aradhna is a digital wedding invitation artist, who makes theme based wedding invitations using the methods of graphic designing and illustrations under the name Paperless Happiness. She specializes in creating E-invitations, based on your style, needs, and tastes. She creates animation videos that inculcate your theme, along with your photographs, to curate invites and save the dates that have a personal touch. Instead of creating illustrations of the couple in the caricature style, she takes original pictures of the couple and fits them into different scenarios to create wedding invitations, save the dates and wedding invite videos, that reflect the tastes of the couple. These videos are accompanied by soft and subtle music that enhances the feel of the animation. She is also willing to include parts of your wedding story, or your love story in the text of the invitations to make them extremely personalized. As the name suggests, she believes in creating happiness in a paperless manner, and so all her creations are available only in the digital form. They can be shared through the means of Whatsapp, email, and instagram. Her illustration style is more sketchful and generic, and to make it more personal, they can also include caricatures of the couples on demand. Along with wedding invitation videos, she does traditional style invitation series in the digital mode, which can be easily shared as JPEGs or PDFs with your friends and family. You can reach out to her through DMs on https://www.instagram.com/paperlesshappiness/ . You can also message her for queries and booking your orders in advance.
Mav Invites is another digital artist that creates wedding stationary and signage, along with invitation videos and wedding cards. They specialize in Bespoke Wedding Invites, Stationery & Packaging, Digital E-Invites, Video Invites, Signage, and Caricatures. They have the unique quality of being able to narrate the whole love story of a couple within a few seconds of the wedding invitation video. Be it a truly, madly, deeply kind of love story, or an arranged marriage, they can accommodate almost any kind of wedding narrative into their videos. They use interesting theme backdrops, and animated illustrations of the bride and groom, to depict different aspects of their story. Once an informal introduction to the bride and groom's story is done, you can find a traditional style, invitation reveal itself, within the video. Since they offer signage and stationery, most of their art work is available both in digital and print form, except the videos. To customize as per your requirements, they can go from incorporating your individual photographs, to your family photographs, to creating caricatures or cartoon versions of you and your friends. They also create illustrative backgrounds to produce a wholesome effect in the video invites. The videos and animation invites are accompanied by wedding related music, or music that reflects your love story. They can easily incorporate any colour palette as per your liking; be it chic, pastel, and minimalistic, or bold, vibrant, and colourful, they do not hesitate in creating designs that reflect your personality. They also create comic narratives and speech bubbles, to make your story narratives realistic. They can incorporate your college buildings, your meeting spots, your memorable events, as illustrated backdrops, to give your invites an extremely personal touch. Their facilities are not just limited to weddings, but they can also create invitations and video invites for other events like Mata ki Chowki, Birthday Parties, Anniversaries, etc. They also create quirky pdf invites with theme based illustrations in vibrant colours. You can also get customized wedding signage, including welcome boards, direction boardings and seating plans, for your guests' convenience. They are also happy to incorporate your own photographs in their videos and digital invites. You can DM them for queries or advance bookings on https://www.instagram.com/mav_invites/
Ankithaz_Craftbyte is a handmade crafts and gift artist. She makes various handmade items that can be customised as per your needs. She also makes handmade, customized save the dates for wedding ceremonies. Her save the dates are extremely creative and unique. She uses unique materials like hand made paper, jute ropes, laces, net, and butter paper to create her save the dates. She can create beautiful calligraphy writing for your invites and save the dates. Her colour palette is extremely sobre. The save the dates and invites created by her usually use minimalistic colours like beige, cream, white and brown. She also adds small creative elements inside the invitation package, such as couple shaped cut outs, small, wooden invitation stands, small glass bottles with rolled scrolls, and so on. You can also find a use of fresh and dried flowers, which are incorporated in the packages, in the form of miniature bouquets. She also incorporates small hand made caricatures of the bride and groom, or cartoon print outs with her invites. If you are looking for a minimalist style invite/ save the date for your wedding, and like cutesy little hand made products, made from arts and crafts, Ankithaz Craftbyte is a great option for you. However, her gifts are more suited for people with a shorter guest list, as she takes small orders, so you can approach her particularly, if you are planning an intimate wedding. You can DM her for queries or for making advanced bookings on https://www.instagram.com/ankithaz_craftbyte/ .
Miracles creates handmade gifts and crafts items, as per custom needs. This entrepreneur offers beautiful, handmade save the dates and wedding invites. These save the dates and invites are created using images and writing cut outs, by the method of cut and paste.They also offer hand painted designs that can be customized as per the theme and colour palette of your choice. If you are looking for extremely personalized invites, that have that homey arts and crafts look, their items are perfect for you. You can find the invites to be hand written in beautiful calligraphy, or fonts of your choice. Materials like lace, zari gota, jute ropes and other interesting crafts materials are often used to decorate these invites. Techniques like paper burning and coffee painting are also used in their invites. Their designs have that personal touch, and will stand out as a customized handmade invite, unlike the mass produced ones that you can purchase in wedding invitation printing shops. Their colour palette is usually on the sobre side with the use of colours like beige, black, brown, white, and golden. However, they can also create colourful and vibrant, hand painted designs, as per your requirements. They also incorporate dried flowers and twigs into their delicate invites, to make them quirky and interesting. You can DM them on instagram for queries or for placing orders at https://www.instagram.com/miracles._/.
Shraddha is an illustration artist who makes customized E invites under the name Aromeraki Designs. Her style of invitation making involves bespoke, caricature illustrations for digital invitations and video invites. Her invitation videos are usually composed of a background theme, as commissioned by the customers, with a simple formal invitation, followed by cute caricature style illustrations, depicting the wedding couple in different wedding ceremony outfits. She also narrates their love story through her animation videos, where comic form and caricature style is used to depict the different characters in their story, and speech bubbles are used to denote the conversations, that took place between the couple at different occasions, that led to the final decision of tying the knot. Her invitations and videos are extremely personalized, and cater to the specific requirements of each client. She uses culture specific music for her videos, comprising folk, traditional, modern and instrumental music, as the background score, that compliment the couple's cultural identities well. She creates series invites as well as individual invites, as per the needs of the clients. The themes of each event are used as the backdrop theme for the specific event based invitations. You can simply send her pictures of yourself in regular clothes, along with images of the outfits that you want her to depict in the illustration, and she magically combines the two to create the real look for the bride and the groom. She also designs welcome boards and signage for weddings, which are basically big sized prints from her graphic designs. She is also able to inculcate the destinations of your choice as a backdrop for her invites. Beautiful landmarks, of different locations and destinations are used to depict the true story behind her illustrations. You can DM her for queries and bookings on https://www.instagram.com/aromeraki_designs/ .
Anjali is an artist who likes to tell stories through her art, thus the name Stories Untold by Anjali. Although she too creates digital, customized , caricature style wedding invitations, she has a uniqueness to her invitations. She uses small cartoon characters to depict the story of the couple through her invitations. The small cartoons narrate the step by step process of the coming together of two souls, to join in holy matrimony. With little words, and more illustrations, Anjali makes her wedding invitations come to life. The cards are extremely quirky, as they have that cute, innocent touch in the cartoon characters that she makes. While the end of the story depicts the full form caricature illustration of the couple, in beautiful wedding outfits, the small cartoons leading upto the build up of the final invite are similar to cute little miniature versions of the bride and groom. Additionally there may be unique illustrations to accompany these cartoon images, that help build the narrative. Her invitations are basically story boards that will give you a hint about the beautiful journey that the couple has been through, before they made the final decision of getting married. She is also adept in creating traditional style wedding cards, with simple caricature illustrations and text material supporting the details of the wedding events. To get your customised wedding invitations made by Anjali all you have to do is send her images of yourself, along with images of the outfit that you would like to be seen wearing in your caricature illustration. For creating storyboard style wedding invitations, you have to go into the details of telling her about how the two of you met, and how your union came to fruition. She is a master at depicting little, precious moments through her pictorial narratives in the wedding invites. So if you're looking for a little unique style illustration for your wedding stationery you can DM her for queries, or for placing your orders in advance at https://www.instagram.com/stories_untold_by_anjali/ .
Vineeta is a quirky and funky wedding card artist, who creates fun and cool, personalized wedding cards under the name Invitations by Vineeta. She also creates funky wedding stationery items that will make your guests want to save up your wedding stationery elements as souvenirs. She offers a varied range of custom style cards that she can design according to your preference. You can order a leaflet style invitation, which contains caricatures of the bride and groom, with interesting graphic illustrations. Her illustration style is kitschy and pop, and she usually mixes pop style art work with traditional style invites. You can also opt for passport style invitations, which have pictures of the couple, instead of one individual, and instead of personal details, the wedding details are mentioned on it. In fact you can get personalized luggage tags, and boarding pass holders made by her. She is also up for making theme based, personalized cards that depict the theme that you pick for your wedding events, or a theme that represents the personality of the couple. Her wedding invitations are available in the print form, and you can keep these beautiful pieces of pop art, as decorative items, long after your wedding is done. For order and queries you can DM her at https://www.instagram.com/invitations_by_vineeta/
While there are still a plethora of artists who make interesting customized wedding invitations, E-invites, wedding videos, wedding signage, and wedding stationery based on your peculiar taste and specifications, these are a select few who grabbed our attention, for their creative work, and quirky designs. In these times of social media revolution, there is no dearth of artists, who have so much to offer, when it comes to the realm of custom made designs. While some artists become viral and go on to achieve a lot of fame, some may be hidden gems, sitting in different corners of the country, simply going on with their work of creating art works, which are no less than master pieces. All they need is a little light to shine on them. We have tried to bring forth those artists, who are doing great work, as they operate from small cities and locations from in and around the Subcontinent.
