I wasn’t sure what I was going to do for this month’s installment of Illustrate 2012, but then I started working on an illustration for wedding invitations for a friend of mine who’s getting married this summer. She and her fiancé are into gnomes, so it only seemed fitting to incorporate them into the invitations. They’re also getting married in their backyard, which is surrounded by woods, so the trees also seemed appropriate. The hedgehog, however, is purely my doing.
It turns out, however, that they’ve decided to forgo the gnomes on the invitations for fear of receiving an abundance of gnomes as wedding gifts. They’re all for gnomes, but really, how many gnome-themed tchotchkes does one couple need? Plus, there are some pretty tacky wedding-themed gnome gifts out there. To wit, check out this little beauty:
And now you understand why their fear is a very real one.