Wedding Blog

I’m going to try to make this as short as possible (no promises… I’m quite the blabbermouth once I get started, I know) as my evenings are now filled to the brim (make that, “overflowing”) with last minute wedding preparations. It’s now T minus 13 days until we leave… but I have soooo much to tell you about still!! Ack!

Way back in the spring when we were creating our invitations, I had this vision of a logo that I wanted to create. For various reasons, it never happened. We got away with not using it, until now! We finally decided what to do about welcome bags and favors, and we realized that we needed one after all.

Note: some people call this a monogram but as Mr Breezy and I are both marketers by day (and cheeseballs by night), and we see it more as a logo. Especially for what we’re doing with them… more on that soon, I promise.

Now, unfortunately, I am not one of you blessedly talented Photoshoppers out there. I don’t have any design programs on my computer nor would I know how to use them. However, I did have a very clear idea in mind of what I wanted—I just needed to translate it into something real in a way that was fast and easy.

So Mr Breezy and I sat down and opened up… Microsoft Powerpoint. That’s right, Powerpoint, as in, your friendly neighborhood presentation software.

That’s my secret design-tool-for-dummies. Crazy, right? Believe it or not, it’s the perfect way for us non-design experts to play around with different shapes, sizes, fonts and styles to find a combination that we like.

I wanted to make my own how-to video but I won’t have time before the wedding, so instead for those of you who are interested, I found this how-to video that pretty much describes how we did it.

And here’s the logo that has been sitting in the back of my mind for months, and which has finally come to life:

It’s very simple and clean, and exactly as I had imagined it. I especially love the swoosh of the K and R legs (I love you, free Optimus Princeps font).

Mind you, if you’ll be using this method to make a monogram/logo for printing purposes, you’ll have to find a friend that has some design savvy-ness to take your Powerpoint mock-up and make a vector file out of it like we did. But it was a piece of cake and the fact he didn’t have to put up with my bossiness during the design process (Move that! Make it bigger! No, smaller! No, not like that, wrong color!), made him even more happy to do it (ha).

I really wish we had thought to do this sooner, as I now can think of umpteen other places where I would have loved to use the logo. Oh well, c’est la vie.

Did you make your own monogram/logo?