The brief arrived in August: a wedding at a vineyard outside Bordeaux, in November, when the light turns amber and the stone turns cold. The couple wanted something that felt like the estate itself — ancient, quiet, certain.
We built the invitation around a single piece of film footage shot at dawn on the property. No music for the first twelve seconds. Only the sound of wind through vine rows, and then, slowly, a string quartet composed specifically for the occasion.
The typographic system was built entirely in Prata and EB Garamond — no digital-native sans-serif. Every heading was set at sizes usually reserved for printed broadsheets. The colour palette was drawn directly from a photograph of the estate's limestone facade at 6am.
The invitation was received in forty-two countries. Three guests flew in from Japan having seen only the digital experience. The couple's mother said she had watched it eleven times.
A wedding invitation composed as a nocturne.
