The Big Deal
Custom playing cards for your wedding/anniversary guests!
Here's a way to make your wedding day special -- and remembered for years. Every guest, family and friend gets a standard deck of playing cards -- with a portrait of the two of you on the back of every card!
Commission 2-time Eisner Award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Paul Karasik to transform the couple into royalty on your own custom playing card deck—a keepsake that turns your wedding into 52 works of art.
These aren't ordinary wedding favors. Each deck features you and your partner reimagined as the King and Queen of Hearts (or however you prefer to be crowned) in the timeless tradition of classic playing card design—rendered in sophisticated caricature that captures your personalities, your style, and your story.
Imagine a fully functional set of playing cards on one side, and an original cartoon portrait on the back.
Deal Yourself a Royal Wedding.
What’s the Big Deal?
The Big Deal: Bespoke Playing Cards for Weddings, Parties & Special Occasions
Most wedding favors end up forgotten in a drawer. Yours will be shuffled, dealt, and remembered for years to come.
Paul Karasik will create unique caricature portraits of the celebrated couple in quintessential playing card style—capturing not just your likenesses, but your personalities, your humor, and your unique story.
The Front: Standard playing cards for poker nights, game nights, bridge clubs, and lazy Sunday mornings.
The Back: An original cartoon portrait that immortalizes your wedding day.
….Now that's a winning hand!
The Big Deal Process
The Consultation
We meet (video, phone, or in person) to discuss your vision. Who are you as a couple? What's your story? What makes you laugh? This is where I get to know my royal subjects.
The Photos
You send me a half-dozen photos of yourselves so I can authentically capture your likenesses.
The Sketch
I create a preliminary drawing showing you as card royalty. We collaborate through two rounds of revisions until every detail of your royal regalia feels perfect.
The Delivery
I handle production from there. You receive your packaged decks within weeks of final art approval. On game nights for years to come, your guests will remember your wedding as the big deal it is.
The Numbers
Custom deck design commissions start at $1,000 for 50 decks and $1,500 for 100 decks, including personal consultation, original illustration, two rounds of revisions, print-ready files, and packaged decks of cards. PLUS: original black and white line art AND a full-color print both suitable for framing. (Additional major edits: $100 each)
Let's talk now about making your wedding the biggest deal of all.
Contact Paul
Paul Karasik is an internationally recognized cartoonist and educator whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Boston Globe, The Vineyard Gazette, and, yes, The New Yorker.
Paul lives on Martha’s Vineyard and loves a good wedding.
Drop me a line and let’s cut the deck!