Weddingbee boards

I made my first invitation mock up today. I was hoping that you guys could give me some constructive criticism to make it better. My FI wasn't super feeling it but couldn't give me any reasons why. I based it off of this one from Etsy. Excuse the blurring for privacy!

It looks so cute, and going along with the PPs, cut the fonts down, you can still make them look different by using different colors, sizes, etc

You spelled immediately wrong and I think the date is a little hard to read, but it looks very similar to the original.

@louisianablue: lol, thanks! I always misspell it, no matter how many times I correct myself or look it over. Immediately is just one of those words that I will never get right.

Is this better at all? It now only has 3 fonts, including the date font. It also has less color. All the blues are the same.. for some reason in the JPEG version downloaded here the smaller words in blue looks like a brighter, different color. 

I also agree that it would look better with a border, but I am very new to photoshop and can't quite figure out how to make one work.

@Stassney: I still think there are too many fonts on the 2nd draft. I'm really not crazy about the smallest font towards the bottom. It looks choppy. In fact so does "Sunday". I'd use the same font from the top "The fairy tale...". Also, the teal, pink & blue doesn't look fantastic with the green scrolls (I would change the leaves to black).

One last thing, take a quick look at the resolution: Maybe it's cause your photo is a compressed jpeg but the pixels around the text really aren't helping at all.

@FutureMrsRugbee: This is what is confusing me.. the text at the bottom is the same font as the top.. as are the names and sunday.. yet they look different. Our colors are green and blue, so I guess I could take out the pink, but I need to keep green and blue. Also in the .PSD file there are none of those dumb little pixels. :(

I am considering just scrapping this all together and trying something different.

Definately switch out the pink then & try saving the invite as a PNG. They're higher resolution so they might solve your font problem. When I did my invites I tried to keep my fonts as large as possible cause old people complain all the time. Maybe boldening them or putting them in all caps might make a difference but I think you're going to have to up the size if the picture can't be saved in a better quality.

Regardless though, invitations in this kind of style look their best when the mix-&-matched boxes & clipart flow. You've got scrolls, arrows, flowers, hearts, lightning bolts, aswell as sparkly writing, cursive and type-writter fonts in all types of sizes, caps & boldness.  The majority of the invite is justified but the two boxes at the bottom are centered (which looks off) and the scroll is overlapping onto them.

You need to think of what feel you want to convey with these invites before you rework them cause right now it looks like you grabbed everything that caught your eye but they don't really work together.

@techie: I love that you love that! Everyone I have mentioned it to has had a very lukewarm reaction to it and don't seem to like the idea.. even my own dad hates it. lol

so saved as a PNG.. haven't changed anything else yet but FutureMrsRugbee was right.. it did make the discoloration and weird pixels go away.