Invitation designs that didn't make the cut

I experimented quite a bit with wedding invitation designs before deciding on the cartoon version of Michael and myself.  The original concept of graphical drawings of voluminous, layered flowers like the peony and the ranunculus.  We also liked the idea of silkscreening a graphical design onto wood cards/veneers.

I dug up some of the photoshop experiments.

Playing with colors and basic layer of concentric circular shapes.

 With wood grain background.  Varied the color in one "flower", and played how the color should be applied.  But let's face it.  They look like boobs.  Especially that one.

I put together some more interesting color palettes, and tried layering some more complex shapes for the peonies, and at the same time, went basic with the ranunculus.  

The two below are about the furthest I got with this theme and design.  They're not bad and I think we could have gotten something nice out of it, but it didn't seem feasible to silkscreen that many colors at this complexity.