Ruination & Despair

Normally, we are somewhat reluctant to take on custom projects here at Archelaus, for the simple reason that they involve working with clients, who are often tiresome, stupid, and just more trouble than they are worth. Fortunately, Anna and Michael fell in an altogether less odious category, and we were able to contrive a full wedding invitation package for them, in both English and Hungarian, without any attendant incidents of manslaughter or grievous bodily harm.

The project began with this “save the date” wedding announcement, which went out in April:

Now, the invitation package itself has been completed, consisting of the wedding invitation, reception invitation, RSVP card, travel tips for Budapest, and envelope:

Here is the Hungarian-language version:

And here are the maps on the back of the English and Hungarian invitations:

Anyway, since no blood was spilt and our clients have expressed no intention to sue, we are choosing to consider the project a great success.

Today we shipped an initial thirty-four half-dozen mongooses to the Chicago distribution hub of Paper Source, for immediate disbursement to their thirty-four fine stores in thirteen states and the District of Columbia. The members of our crack sales team are feeling very full of themselves for securing such an important new customer, and I must admit that for once they seem to have some justification.

Yesterday we shipped an order of fine cards to University Press Books in Berkeley, California, just across the street from the UC campus. It should arrive tomorrow. You have been warned.

This afternoon we shipped an order of fine cards to Pages, a card and gift shop in West Chester, Pennsylvania (some twenty miles west of Philadelphia). We are grateful to the anonymous customer at Eastern Market who suggested that this store might be a suitable venue!