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I knew a woman who was getting married to a man named Andrew. Her name was Sue. His last name was saltman. aSs. How's that one for ya? They chose a biblical quote instead of the monogram and played it up in photoshop. If you've ever seen the wordart page, it looked something like that. It was beautiful, I would recomend it.
Hi!
Monograms using your first names and wedding date are always really nice. If you want to stick with the intials, I think the bride's first name initial is supposed to go first, so your monogram would actually be CCG instead of GCC =) I was playing around with illustrator and incorporated some stars with a flourish. Do you like this style?
Let me know - I'd love to help out a boston bride. If I'm on the right track, I'll work with you on revisions and send you the monogram file.
~Emilie
Thanks for putting that together, Emilie - I think I just want to avoid the monogram altogether - to me I would be afraid people would look at that and see a bunch of C's and think that it's all about me! Which it's not!
Scheerintraining -- That is too funny - I guess it could be worse!<span class="postby"> We aren't very religious but maybe a line from our wedding song could work in a similar fashion.
You could just use the last initial and ignore the first ones or pick areally ornate script so that the G will seperate itself more.
You can also use a capital letter for the last initial and lowercase for the first initials. the g would stand out then.
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I like your monogram. It seems flowy and pretty to me.
At my wedding we used a quote from 'our song'. It was, "you've never been this loved". I loved that it meant something instead of just having our initials everywhere.
Thanks Mrs. Hudson & tberry ... I never really thought of lower case -- it does make it more distinctive! Hmm ... we have a song but a favorite line? More things to think about!
Thanks everyone!
We are just using our first initials (L & R) in our monogram. I want to be able to use it for the invitations and stuff prior to the wedding and call me traditionalist, but since our monogram won't officially be "our" monogram until after the wedding, we left the last initial out.
Do you have photoshop? You can make your G and C into a monogram by "interlocking" them so that they kinda overlap in a few areas, using a script font and a regular font. Then you can use different colors to make each letter distinct. Hope that makes sense. You can do a lot of creative stuff with photoshop & even powerpoint...
we also didn't like the idea of a monogram plus i'm not taking his last name so the three letter traditional monogram didn't suit us. we ended up just using our names _____ & _______ in a pretty font (monterey BT - the free and not as pretty version of the Feel script that everyone loves). I plastered that "monogram" everywhere along with our wedding date (in copperplate). Also, we had a dots theme so i threw in some dots in certain places... like at the beginning of my name and at the end of his. hope this helps. good luck!
first of all, thank you :)
I just used his first initial and my first because, similar to you, our monogram would be eRr... ERRRRRR no good. PM me if you want some design help :)
Thanks all for your responses and Mrs Pineapple for your design help offer!
I still have a loong way to go before actually making this come to life, so for now I'm just looking at ideas! Thanks a bunch!
Why not just use your full first names and have some graphics?
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A little late, but my suggestion would be to use your start motif throughout and not concentrate on the initials. Just find a star motif that you love and use it. That will tie everything together.
I was going to use a monogram for mine but it would of been BJJ. And I did not like that. BJ?!?! not cool. So i got a graphic designer to use our first names with our wedding date and a cute floral design. I think it worked out so much better. Maybe u should just use first names?
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I'm in almost exactly the same boat. dCc. I am going to be CC, so if I put just C's on everything, it's going to look a little narcissistic. ;-) Instead, we have asked a friend of ours to do a simple line drawing that will incorporate our wine theme. It's not done yet, but it should involve wedding rings surrounded by grapvines. We are going to use it on invites, maybe the aisle runner, STDs, etc.
Another CC! Ha!
Yeah I think we are going to try and have someone do a graphic/drawing/first names ... and use that to tie in.
Thanks everyone! :)
I believe it was Mrs. Toucan; one of the bees used first initials and graphics that depicted their nicknames for her monogram. It was adorable!
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This might sound like a silly question but after seeing Mrs Pineapple's beautiful aisle runner I am getting more and more annoyed that I hate our monogram.
I know some might disagree but I just dont like it .. Long story short my new initials are going to be CMC ... or CC and his first name begins with a G ... so gCc ... to me it seems like it would just look like a whole bunch of C's and I'm just not a fan of our monogram ...
BUT ... I do love the idea of a monogram to unify all of our stationary and aisle runner and theme. I was thinking of something like the words "I love you" or a favorite quote, or our wedding date, or something for the aisle runner, ... also we are thinking of using stars in our stationary/as our theme so I was thinking we could somehow incorporate them?
Does anyone else have an other ideas for a non-monogram monogram? :)
Thanks in advance!