Free bride and groom SVG files

Thin places to watch

A couple seen from the front is two heads on two necks, and the necks are the narrowest solid part: about 4 mm wide when the pair is 100 mm tall. Her arms are close behind at about 3.5 mm. That is fine in vinyl and card at 80 mm and up. For a cake topper in 2 or 3 mm acrylic or wood, cut the silhouette with a train at 120 mm wide or more, which makes the necks over 5 mm, and fix the picks behind the floor strip, not behind the figures.

The couple arm in arm has a few fine cut lines: his bow tie and lapels, the edge of her posy and the seam where her skirt crosses his leg. They are a little over 1 mm wide and are there to be weeded out. If you are cutting small, use the silhouette, which has none of them.

Making the pair your own

Nothing here has a face, hair colour or skin colour, so one file suits any couple. To make two brides or two grooms, start from the design with a ring for the date, where the two figures stand apart. In your cutting software, slice away the figure you do not want and put a mirrored copy of the other in its place. The ring between the two figures is about 36 mm across inside when the design is 100 mm wide: enough for a date in two short lines, and more if you cut it larger.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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