traditional german wedding typeface?

[jonathan paul g...]

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i am designing a wedding invitation for a couple, he is american, she is german and thus the invitation has to be in both languages. i was wondering if anyone knew any german wedding faces? - all my searches get re-directed to horrible wedding sites and before i use Schwabacher or Fraktur, i wondered if anyone had any suggestions? or suggestions of where to find.

also - is Goudy a bad choice for the aboves american counterpart?

thank you

[hrant]

A font with gentle hints of blackletter might be nice.
On the other hand many Germans remain paranoid
about blackletter, so check first. If so, use DIN. ;-)

hhp

[Indra Kupferschmid]

All German invitations I ever got for the more “traditional” kind of wedding were in Chevalier or some sort of engravers or copperplate gothic. So I wouldn’t worry too much about this. I’d use just one typeface for the whole thing, maybe an elegant script. No blackletter (has rather a negative than a festive connotation).

[hrant]

> I’d use just one typeface for the whole thing

Helvetica, right?...

Any opportunity is a good opportunity
for some typographic subversion. :-)

hhp

[Jens Kutilek]

In this day and age, even for traditional weddings people tend to print their invitations for themselves. So they'd use whatever they find on their computer and seems »elegant« to them.

If they have a Mac, these would be the likeliest candidates: Apple Chancery, Zapfino, Palation Italic, Times Italic.

If they know a designer with a Creative Suite, Bickham Script Pro.

You could get an impression by image-googling for »Hochzeitseinladung«.

[hrant]

Jens, what made you start using guillemets in English? ;-)

hhp

[Andreas Stötzner]

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/facetype/weingut/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/parachute/pf-bodoni-script-pro/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/andreas-stotzner/reinstaedt/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/redrooster/canterbury-sans/

[Frode Bo Helland]

Let’s face it Indra, here’s your real wedding font of choice. :)