A Really Lovely Wedding

My cousin got married last October 2009 and I had the privilege of creating their wedding invites as well as their wedding albums (2 volumes in all!).  It was such a lovely wedding.  So intimate, at a small chapel in Caleruega, Tagaytay and the reception at this place called Hacienda Isabella.  The reception venue was really beautiful and very vintage-y (my kind of place), with lots of nooks and crannies and little oddities here and there, lots of wood and nature. The couple also had all these cool antique stuff which they used as table decor in lieu of the usual flowers.  And of course, the couple looked fabulous and so in love!

Here is the invite I created, they wanted it to be an envelope you could open up and inside in a handwriting font, were the wedding details.  Then they wanted postcard inserts for directions to the wedding church and reception venue.  All done in Photoshop.  The couple gave me lots and lots of pics that were important and had meaning to them.  I created a sort of collage, layering the photos on top of another in various blending modes.  Sort of like those pictures where you have to look at it at a different angle to see another picture.  I think the couple had fun trying to look for the pics they gave me :)

This is the outer part of the Envelope, 

the flaps are supposed to fold inward:

 

  

  

  The post card insert:

  

 

 (Credits: Lara's DigiWorld for the antique luggage and The Boy is a Boy by Lily Designs for the Antique automobile, the chair and sun from a kit I'm trying to find, LOL! Sorry will have to post that as soon as I find it.  Font, Pea Jenny Script)

Their albums have been done some time ago but I haven't posted them until now because my cousin and her husband just received them as a valentine's gift :)

Here are some pages from it (just click on pics to view on a larger scale):

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

The awesome photography is by Pat Dy.  Doodles by me ;)

Some Wedding Pages

It's been a really crazy week for me busy finishing all my projects... and still busy with a new project my good friend asked my help with for her husband's 50th birthday which has to be out for print on Saturday, (I only got the files today) eek! Sleepless nights here we go again.  To top things off, I have been plagued by really bad migraines and neck pain (which I believe has to do with my work chair not being the most ergonomic one).  Because of the migraine meds, my acid reflux is back full force (I was diagnosed with hiatal hernia way back) and I've been having really bad stomach spasms for four days now.  Arrgh! That means no coffee and spicy food for me for the meantime.  That is such a bummer.  No coffee? Whaaaat? How could I start my day without coffee?  But then I am in such pain now, so I have to be on my coffee diet.  Sigh.

I was up late the other day because I worked on my final touch for this wedding album I finished creating.   I have a love affair with birds right now ever since I saw Gennine's blog and have started to draw my own using pictures of birds found in the Philippines.

I was also so inspired by the  featured artist Cori Dantini, in the Art Journal Caravan that this wedding album has a different feel to it and involved a lot of birds and drawings of girls.  Here are some pages I'd like to share (just click on the pic to view it on a larger scale):

Credit: Green Leaf branches from Cinzia Loosemore's Retro Fall Elements.  The rest of the doodles were drawn by me.