Dan gave me
'The Owl Service' by Alan Garner for my birthday in 2011. The story is about a girl named Ali who becomes possessed by a mad owl/flower/women spirit. It's a sixties folk horror classic about... well I'm not sure what it's about to be honest, but we loved it. The Owl Service became the nexus for planning our wedding.
Part of the reason we wanted to send out real invitations (apart from the fact we just like them) was to get people excited and give them an idea of what they might expect. The invitations went out as a little packet in brown paper envelopes - I think we both had in mind those
Don't Panic envelopes we used to pick up on nights out as students, which were always full of intriguing bits of paper and card. Our packet included the invite itself, the RSVP card to post back and a mysterious line drawing of a decorated plate printed on tracing paper (the owl service itself).
If I've piqued anyone's curiosity, both
the book and the original bonkers/unsettling
TV series are available. I also just discovered this
amazing knitting pattern whilst hunting for my original sources - I know I'll be casting that on as soon as is humanly possible. The
folk band aren't bad either!
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| scan of the original water colour I made for the invite |
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| the finished invitation |
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| the finished RSVP postcard |
I was quite sad we didn't get a package in the post; we should have sent one to ourselves!
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