In today's society, people always tend to veer towards the cleaner, more corporate invitations. Being an avid lover of modernity myself, I always tend to shy away from anything handmade, hand-drawn or almost anything that showcases human warmth. I think we have gotten used to...
Today on the blog we feature the beautiful and colourful floral inspired wedding invitation of Erna and Damian. The summer wedding was held in Paarl and Peartree captured stunning pictures of the couple at the Boschendal Wine Estate in December. The Love & Light invitation that we designed for...
We designed modern, simple yet sophisticated stationery for Roelien & Sean's wedding. From the seating charts, to the menus and the Order Of Service, everything tied back to their original invite that boasted a clean palette of white, blue, silver and grey. All the design...
With mood board 7 in our series we are going blue…a very stylish blue! We have decided to combine this beautiful blue inspired invitation with a wedding that emphasises the finer details in design and decor. We created this beautiful blue wedding invitation for Lizel &...
I want to share this STUNNING beaut of an invitation with you all on this blustery monday morning. We designed it for Splendid Affairs clients, Dupi and Hale last year and we love the final result. The invitation consists of 2 digitally printed cards which are wrapped...
For the 6th mood board in our series we have decided to portray how two of our most popular techniques can be combined for a wedding inspired by the combination of metallics and florals. Two seemingly opposite elements are combined to create a modern wedding...
Today's inspiration is the beautiful navy and white mod invitation designed by our head designer, Naomi. For me it almost represents an Art Deco revival with the geometric patterned envelope liner. That is why I chose the very modern navy and gold geometric inspired wedding decor to...
Our next invitation in our mood board series has brought us to one of our favourite navy wedding invitations designed last year… We loved the quirky yet elegant style of the invitation! The combination of all the different techniques and little details made this invitation unique to the couple and...
With mood board 4 in our series we are going GREY… We at Secret Diary absolutely adore the colour grey. We feel that grey invitations just has this effortless sense of elegance and style to it!! And on the plus side there are so many different ways...
Travel inspired invitations have sold like hot cakes since the day we opened our doors here at Secret Diary. And it is unsurprising, since in this day and age international travel is so accessible. You could be on a quick beach vacation in Mauritius or working a job abroad in Europe and 'BAM!'...
We all like to give the outside world the illusion of being calm, collected and having your life together (Even though you're wearing the shirt you found in the 3-week-old laundry pile that lives on the ominous chair that you haven't REALLY seen in years). One of the...