Many people make their hobby as their career. Designing wedding cards is one such hobby that many people pursue as their business. Weddings have always been a big affair in India. Most couples who get married in recent times want their wedding to be unique and eventful. And this starts with a wedding card. Unique, theme based and exclusive wedding card designs are selling like hot cakes.
To pursue this hobby, you need to have a keen interest in designing. Right brain people with an artistic bend of mind can create some great designs. Apart from this, you also need to have a clear understanding of Indian weddings and how different is one culture’s wedding from another.
Start from the basics. You can surf the net, refer some books, collect wedding cards, study the designs, make rough sketches of the designs, and learn Photoshop – CorelDraw etc that will help you to design your wedding cards.
Try and make different colour combinations, use different shapes, experiment, take opinion from people, learn, unlearn and relearn and make something creative that people will want to design their cards from you.
It is also important to establish some contacts with printers who are printing wedding cards or cater to gift wrapping. This way you will find it easy to implement your designs and you will also be able to make the right connections.
Your hobby can be a great learning for you. It can open new doors, new avenues. If you pursue your hobby with total dedication and full passion, the returns of it can make you creatively happy and satisfied!