This and That Creations: Movie theme wedding invitation ~ Casablanca

You can certainly make any idea come true for your wedding. With a little thought and some details, a vision can come to life. Sometimes it's not just colors, flowers or a theme that fits the bill. If you're looking for romance, why not start incorporating your ideas into your invitation?!?! Your wedding invitation is that little something that allows your guests not only know who, what, when and where...but also sets the tone and enlightens them on what to expect on this big day!!! Let it be an introduction, a little peek of what's to come and let it be a part of you and what you have dreamt this magical day to be. We did just that with this invitation set we call... Casablanca.

Some movie fun facts :)

Casablanca is a classic romantic drama film that was released in 1942 and directed by Michael Curtiz. There are many legionary actors in this movie such as, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid. Based on an unpublished stage play called "Everyone comes to Rick's", this classic love story was set in the Moroccan city of Casablanca.

So how do we incorporate Casablanca into a wedding invitation you ask??? Piece of cake!!! Okay, maybe not that simple but, with a bit of research and some deep thoughts we created a detailed invitation that represents this classic movie in more ways than one. First things first...where do we start?????

Since this movie was set in the 1940's we decided to start with one of our popular old Hollywood invitations we named, Glamorous. This over sized invite with an old movie program format is just were we needed to begin. Our first fine detail would be what papers to use. Deep reds, black and gold are always a great pallet for an old Hollywood Movie theme wedding but we decided to stick with the classic black and white colors (or not:) keeping with the black and white film style. We used the shimmer paper line in this new creation, just as we did with the Old Hollywood invitation as well and tweaked the format to go with our Casablanca theme. We changed the stars to a different design, something a little bit less showbiz and a little more Moroccan, hence the movie set.

Our first detail we will share with you is at the bottom of this large invitation. We took a line from the movie and placed it at the bottom; "Kiss me, kiss me as though it was the last time!"

We decided to add more quotes from the movie throughout the invitation. We continued this theme on the reply card and reception card as well.

"Here's looking at you kid!"

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine"

What we had so far, with the many details was great...but we needed just one more thing to tie this whole dream movie wedding all together. Something to make you whisper...CASABLANCA!!!! We put our thinking caps back on and started to dig a little deeper in our research. From researching we found one major component that was a constant design in Morocco, the lattice style windows and unique doors. When creating a Moroccan style wedding invitation we thought of lattice style window on a cover to mimic the style of the windows and doors you can find throughout the city. Can WE do that? Of course we can :) But we wanted to combine that with the original movie theme invitations we were creating. So let's go back to Casablanca...after looking at some film clips of the movie we had a great idea. A main focal point of the movie was Rick's Cafe Americain. The entrance of the club had two Moroccan style doors. Why don't we create a cover for the invitation that replicated the doors in the movie? DUNZO!!! To add a little bit of a pop we used a silver shimmer paper to wrap around the invitation creating a gatefold cover. Down each side of the flaps we created a lattice look. Your guest will open this unique wedding invitation and piece together all the small details and know they won't want to miss this star studded wedding.