Alpine Wildflower wedding invitation

The opening line and the couple's names sit across the top of the card in a pale blue sky with drifting white clouds. Beneath them, a range of jagged, snow-capped peaks rises behind green forested slopes, tall dark pines stand at both edges, and a small wooden cabin with a brown roof perches on the hillside at the right. A pale footpath winds down from the cabin through a sunlit meadow dotted with small daisies, yellow flowers and gray boulders, ending in a clear patch of ivory for the details. Wildflowers fill both lower corners: tall blue and lavender spikes at the left, golden-yellow blooms at the right, and small blue star-shaped flowers and white flowers with yellow centers on both sides.

The landscape is painted in careful, detailed watercolor, from the shadowed blue-gray rock and snowfields of the peaks to the rows of firs that grow smaller as they run back into the valley. The flowers in front are brushed more freely, on fine stems with sage and olive leaves. Snowy mountain blue and pine green give the card a cool, fresh tone, the olive-yellow meadow and the lavender and deep blue blooms add warmth, and the warm ivory paper keeps the whole scene light, like a clear day in the high meadows.

All of the lettering is a dark pine green. “Meet us in the mountains” opens the card in small, widely spaced serif capitals, and the couple's names, “Lena & Finn” on the sample, are by far the largest line, in elegant high-contrast serif capitals with a curling ampersand, set against the sky just above the peaks. At the bottom, the details stand one per line in letterspaced serif capitals in the ivory clearing between the flowers: “Saturday, August 27”, “3:00 PM”, “The Alpine Meadow” and “RSVP in Inviti by July 30”.