For our wedding, I wanted to make sure we included an element that would live long past the one day that gave me a persistent eye twitch as I was planning it.
After my GBF said Raz and I looked like a white Jay-Z and Beyonce in our engagement photos, I was inspired by
this blog post to get a sketch commissioned that we could use across all our wedding papers and beyond.
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Our fave booty-tooching engagement photo.
I emailed Kelli, the writer of the aforementioned blog post, to ask for a connection to the artist of her sketch. She offered something even better - her now fiance who is an artist in the Bay Area. Just a few emails led to the perfect cartoon version of Raz and Whit.
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How cute are we?!
And I used it everywhere. I used the original engagement image for our save the dates and the sketch for our invitations. I had it blown up and put in a HUGE frame I got from a sample sale for $10 one of my first weeks at Nordstrom. We used it as our guest book.
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| Hopefully we'll get to hang this in our married house. Actively house hunting now. Pray for us! |
I also used it on programs. IT. WAS. EVERY. WHERE.
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In all important events, I try to think of the ways we can make them live on. The sketch and all its uses not only gave me a wedding motif, but it also gave me some fun leave-behinds I'll have forever. True, personal art that will always remind us of one of the most special and foundational moments of our lives.
And that is invaluable.
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Sketch:
Timothy Lamb
Photos:
Andria Lindquist
