The cover is one flat teal ground carrying two layers of ornament: a fine white lacework of paisley buta and rosettes around the edges, and pale vine scrolls with leaf-tips curving up through the centre. Set into the middle of that, in capitals large enough to bleed off both edges, are the names YAO + YAA in the same pale tone as the scrolls, so the lettering reads as part of the pattern rather than on top of it. The plus sign is drawn with a small flourish rising out of its arm, which is what lets the mark sit inside the ornament without fighting it.
The next panel drops the ground out to a near-white sage and lets the vine work run grey and quiet behind. A pale band across the middle carries the request line, the Okudzeto and Lantey families asking for their presence at the wedding of their son and daughter, set in a thin geometric sans; the full names fall below in the same face at a larger size, in teal — Nunya Yao Tettey and Rebecca Yaa Effaah Lamptey. Both carry a day-name, Yao and Yaa, and that pair is the whole idea behind the title.
A third panel holds the details in the same type over the same quiet ground: the date and time, the Church of Pentecost in Community 4, Tema, the reception at T Havana in Community 9, and the proverb line “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favour from the Lord.” An RSVP block closes it against two named contacts.
The suite ends on directions. Two street maps of the Tema area are redrawn in the palette of the invite — roads picked out in pale green against a grey field, a solid teal bar dividing the church district from the reception district — with pin marks on the church and the grounds and the landmarks named out along the way: Harbour Road, Rana Motors Roundabout, Ashiaman Overpass Road and Community 12 Roundabout.
Nothing in the set is a script or a serif; the geometric sans does all the typesetting and the ornament field does all the decorating, which is what keeps a fairly conventional invite structure looking like a single designed object. The card was made for a ceremony in March 2013 and documented to our Behance archive in July 2014. View the original project on Behance.
