Bet you’ve never received a wedding invitation like this before: Folded just so, this card turns into a manually operated paper record player that plays back a song recorded by the future bride and groom.
Designer Kelli Anderson wanted to create something original for the wedding of her friends Karen Sandler and Mike Tarantino, and look at (and listen to) the result. Wow.
If recipients aren’t pleased with the tinny sound of the hand-spun version, they can pop that “flexi-disc” out of the wedding invitation and let a conventional turntable do the spinning for them, where it’ll play just like any other record.
Karen and Mike wrote the lyrics and performed the music, vocals and audio engineering themselves. Certainly a big help was the fact that Mike is a Grammy-nominated audio recording engineer.
We know, musical purists, you probably noticed they’re not exactly professional musicians, but at least they didn’t autotune it to death like some “recording artists” we’ve encountered lately.
Enhancing the overall originality of the design is the rest of the card, packed with clever graphics. “As a fallback measure (if the record-playing didn't work for whatever reason), the package sure as hell had to look great,” Kelly says.
Mission accomplished. It’s a masterpiece. Read more details about the trials and tribulations of making this original wedding invitation at Kelli’s site.
Invitation Cover
So far, it looks pretty much like any wedding invitations.
Nice Design
Here's where you start thinking this is not going to be an ordinary wedding invitation.
Instructions
Perform these three steps, and you can get a record to play with this wedding invitation.
Closeup of Needle
A small sewing needle is carefully mounted in the...
