Using Imagery in Your Wedding

Fly Me to the Moon

Beautiful, isn't she? La bella luna. Bringing love. Bringing lunacy. An image that you can plan your wedding around. Just an example... the beautiful, meaningful moon. Because images are important, and powerful. They strike the eye immediately, bringing with them associations, colors, forms, emotions. You can draw your colors, silver and white, from the moon. You can bring in circles and crescents to decor, clothing, favors, and your wedding cake. Like the night sky, you can adorn your ceremony with twinkling lights.

Images make a statement, and they bring with them color, emotion, shape, associations of ideas. Images can tie together the elements of your wedding, in much the same way that a wedding theme works. The moon can be translated into many elements that all come together with one vision.

Then, there is the image itself. The moon can glow overhead on the ceiling or dangling above the wedding couple. A giant moon wall treatment can create an accent wall for your wedding ceremony or reception. Moons can adorn your invitations and thank yous. They can be printed on matchbooks, table settings... in fact, you can have as many moons as you wish, to celebrate the many moons you'll have together.

We all have images that speak to us. Pulling together inspirational pictures to develop your wedding design is a fantastic exercise, even if you never use a single photograph or drawing in your ceremony, because images are visual, and your wedding is also visual. Images carry in them all the elements of design.

Even when you've decided on a subject, like the moon, you'll have a myriad of images to choose from. The reason is simple... an image isn't the topic of the photograph or picture. The image is the treatment, the visualization. And that's what you want to pull from for your wedding. Maybe the literal, hovering moon isn't the image you want. Maybe you want a stylized, whimsical moon, one that you could repeat as a pattern or feature solo.

Or maybe you want an elegant, sensual moon, like this Moon Nymph by Luis Ricardo Falero, a piece of artwork that can adorn a prominent wall or top your cake.

Your choices will bring you different colors, different styles, and of course a different image to play with. The images you draw from can be anything that strikes you as beautiful, in whatever way. A sunset. A ripe kiwi fruit cut in two. A stained glass window. A vibrant sunflower.

Troll through Google images. Clip pages out of magazines. Search through your photo albums. You might find inspiration.

And if we can help develop a customized image for your wedding, in any size or for any application, let us know.