Drew & Heather’s wedding pictures were ready for viewing this past Sunday, and they invited the family and I to come check out the photos with them.  The photos turned out great.  Everyone was very impressed by the company, The Edge Photography Studio.  And not just because of the spectacular shots of the wedding.  Their presentation of the photos yesterday was so classy.  We were served champagne, cheese and crackers when we arrived.  Then we watched a projected slide show of all the spread comps for the printed album, followed by all of the photos taken at the wedding.  Next, we passed around printed samples of the spreads we just saw (scaled down to 1/4 the size of the final product) so that the couple (and family members) could have the opportunity to rearrange any photos they didn’t like.  After that, we passed around a sample of a printed album similar to what Drew and Heather have ordered.  The albums are handmade with leather bound covers and black-edged flush mounted (thick, unbending) pages.  Absolutely stunning.  Plus, they offer the albums in different sizes, including mini books!  Last, but not least, Drew & Heather were presented with a 2-disk set of DVDs containing high quality digital files of all their photos.  No proofs!  How awesome is that!?  Oh, and did I mention that the DVDs have personalized labels, and that the cover is also leather bound?  Yeah, these folks are the definition of classy.

All of that aside, I was very pleased to see that they photographed my graphic design pieces from the ceremony and reception.  Being part of the wedding party, I had nowhere to stash my camera, meaning I didn’t take a single picture that day.  I completely forgot to take pictures of my work in the environment!  Fortunately, since my brother has the digital files in his hands, he was ever so kind as to send me some of those pictures to me tonight so I could post them on my website!  And here they are:

The quiz cards (above) got a lot of positive feedback.  Since it was mainly Heather’s idea, I can’t take much credit for it or it’s entertainment value.  So I mainly had a lot of people telling me that I did a great job of hiding the answer.  Apparently, nobody had spotted the answers until nearly the end of the night.  This surprised me; I was worried that the answers were obvious and somewhat illegible.  I deliberately put the answers on the right hand side on top of the design for two reasons.  First, because I wanted it to be hidden so nobody could cheat or accidentally see the answer before reading the question.  Second, since most people are right-handed, their hand/thumb would cover the answer when they picked up the card.  That way the answer gets hidden by the design and the hand.  Seems my cleverness paid off.

This is (hopefully) the last I will write about this job… unless I can get my brother to find a picture showing the table numbers and menus.  But I doubt it.  Up next: wedding programs for one of my brother’s coworkers to whom he mentioned I’m a graphic designer.  Aren’t siblings wonderful?