Family coat of arms

The most long-awaited and exciting day for each couple is a wedding. Young people want this celebration to look beautiful and at the same time remember all the guests gathered. To solve this problem a lot of different decorations are used, which are used in the design of the banquet hall. One of the most popular among them is the coat of arms.

What is the coat of arms on the wedding

Before you make a coat of arms for the wedding with initials, find out what it is and what you need. This element is a monogram borrowed from western celebrations. This is a kind of family symbol, in which the initial letters of the names of the newlyweds are interwoven in the form of a single inscription. It turns out beautiful, fashionable and very original. A monogram can have from 2 to 4 letters, but at the request of the bride and groom, the date of the wedding celebration is entered into it.

Items

To make a family coat of arms for a wedding, you can use any flowers and fonts (even non-standard ones), because the main thing is to emphasize the business style of the celebration. Popular forms of monogramming are round, oval and curved in the form of a shield. The coat of arms for the wedding may include the following elements:

1. A kind of "base" for initials in mind fancy images is the background. It can be different - it all depends on the imagination of the designer and the newlyweds.
2. Monogram, which is a complicated image of the combinations of the initial letters of the groom, the bride in the form of tie. It also includes some common line connecting the first letters of the names. This principle is always preserved, because the coat of arms should display something that unites the future married couple.
3. Inscriptions. The most important elements of a wedding coat of arms. This may be the initials of the newlyweds, and any additional elements.
4. Symbols that are associated with love, loyalty. For example, it could be a pair of hearts connected to each other or two rings. A good option is the sign of infinity, a pair of wolves or swans.
5. If desired, the monogram of the wedding is applied to the frame of wood, which is further inserted into the photo. It can capture the moment when young people put on wedding rings and happily smile at their loved ones.

Materials

To make an accessory on which the family monogram will be applied, you can use paper, wood or foam. The first option is the most affordable and easy to use, but it can easily tear when careless movement. Wood (plywood) is stronger and more reliable, but working with it is an order of magnitude more difficult - you can face the problem of structural rigidity and fragility of edges. Polyfoam is a good alternative, but such material crumbles (it is very fragile) and therefore it is very difficult to cut the coat of arms of the original form out of it. To begin with it is recommended to use paper.

Professional workshops often use decorative plastic, because It has the necessary flexibility, reliability, ease. The appearance of this material is attractive. The thickness of the plastic depends on the plans for using the finished accessory for the wedding. If it involves intense loads, then plastic with a thickness of 10 mm will do. If you plan to order the manufacture of the coat of arms, then check out the approximate prices (in thousands of rubles):

Plastic thickness	40x40 cm	60x60 cm	80x80 cm	100x100 cm
5 mm	1.5	2.9	3.9	5.5
10 mm	2.9	3.9	5.5	6.9

Wedding coat of arms do it yourself

You can buy a ready-made coat of arms for a wedding or make it yourself. In the latter case, you will need a printer and some skills in working with MS Word. First, decide on the color scheme. Each of the shades carries some hidden meaning. Details about the characteristics:

• red: love, courage, fire;
• golden: sun, justice, generosity, generosity;
• azure: sky, faith, justice;
• silver: innocence, purity, the prototype of the moon;
• green: associated with plants, youth, hope;
• purple: combines a sense of dignity, wisdom, nobility;
• black: humility, modesty, education.

It is also important to determine the style of writing the initials for the wedding. To do this, consider a few examples:

• if the wedding is classic, then fit with curlicues;
• For the Baroque celebration, use more additional elements, bends, curlicues;
• for medieval style, rectangular fonts with curves are well suited;
• for modern wedding, use letters with monograms, rounded shapes.

It is recommended to start making a coat of arms for a wedding out of paper. The network has many specialized software applications for creating monograms, but you can use MS Word. Instruction:

1. Create a large text field, click on "Insert" and select "Text Box". Hold the initials of the newlyweds and, if desired, various additional elements.
2. Enter the initials for the emblem, try different options of fonts. Choose the one you like and increase it to 180-200 in the Font Size window. You can use the options to create monograms, but they need to be downloaded separately.
3. Pick a color for text. If you want to insert additional data, for example, the date of the holiday or the names, then add more text fields. Place them below or above the main label.
4. Remove the frame around the text by right-clicking on the field and selecting "Text Format". Then click on “Fill” and “No Color”. So you remove the background - it does not see the capital letters of the monogram. In the "Line" section, remove the frame by clicking on "Apply".
5. Do the described procedures for all elements on the coat of arms. Through the section "Insert" and "Figure" put additional graphic elements. Pick pictures that have a transparent background.
6. At the end, print the finished image for the coat of arms. You can cut the workpiece and transfer to cardboard. Then carefully cut the monogram along the contour using a stationery knife.

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