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Showing posts with label weddings. Show all posts

'Till Death Do Us Part', A Couple's Engagement Photos Emulate Friday The 13th.




Van Lawson and her fiance Josh Morden, both from Parry Sound, Ontario, have a great sense of humor - albeit a sick one. For their engagement, instead of posing for clichéed, gooey-eyed, cheesy photos, they posed for a series of 26 photos taken by professional Toronto photographer Brandon Michael Gray, that emulate a Friday the 13th horror film. Van even painted the Crystal Lake sign herself.

Here are all 26 photos, in order, of course:




























Now, theirs is one wedding I'd like to attend.

Photography by Brandon Gray
Assisted by Oceana Jordan
Jason Voorhees played by JP Borchardt

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Ellie Konig and Quang Dinh Know How To Do A Wedding Video. Take Note, Soon-To-Be-Marrieds.


above: Quang and Ellie captured in their on-site reception photo booth, one of over 800 pictures by which they now have to remember the special occasion (courtesy of Quang Dinh's facebook page)

Like most newlyweds, the lovely Ellie Koning and handsome Quang Dinh wanted to capture the afterparty of their Aug. 11th nuptials on video. Unlike most couples, they used small Seattle-based production company Super Frog Saves Tokyo to do the job. (On the company's official facebook page, the folks at SFST they say they made this video for their "boss.")



The video was shot at the reception site Sodo Park in Seattle Washington in a photo booth, a now popular trend at weddings. The result is a recorded total of 4 minutes and 27 seconds of sweet jubilation unlike most painfully tacky wedding videos.


above: one of the photobooth still images from their wedding

It's been featured on MSN, Glamour.com, Jezebel and more and is rapidly turning Ellie and Quang into social media stars.


above: a still from the video

Shot at super high speed on the RED Epic camera, this 160 frame per second video unfolds in slow motion to Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” and captures the guests with simple wedding favor props like confetti, bubbles, poppers and silly string in a photo booth.



The joyful and ebullient energy conveyed is so much better and more touching than drunken statements made to camera or master shots of a dark room full of spastic dancers.

Congratulation to the happy couple, shown below in a more subdued and romantic photo from their wedding (photo courtesy of Ellie's facebook page):


Contact Super Frog Saves Tokyo to do your wedding video, or any other cool storytelling video you may need at video@sfst.com


http://www.sfst.com/

Letter-pressing and Loteria Cards in Cedar Boxes Make For Stunning Wedding Invitations by Konnect Design.



Branding and design company Konnect Design, took the bride and groom's backgrounds and the the event venue into consideration when designing these beautiful and unique wedding invitations which include letter-pressing, elegant typography, loteria cards, reply cards and vintage stamps, packaged in a cedar box.

Union at the Union


She’s from East LA. He’s a gringo from the South Bay. When their worlds united it was truly meant to be, which made for an appropriate theme surrounding this couple’s big day.



Her Latin roots inspired the use of Loteria (Spanish Bingo) cards, as well as cedar boxes that Konnect Design of Santa Monica had custom made and shipped from the Dominican Republic. The boxes housed the letterpress invitation and reply cards (complete with vintage postage stamps) and also served as a nod to the cigar roller who would be entertaining the guests at the wedding reception.



Reply Cards:


The letter-pressed menus at the wedding were also designed by Konnect in keeping with the look of the invitations:


Since the couple was to be wed at the historic Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, it seemed more than fitting to title the piece, Union at the Union.



all original images (they have been composited for this post) and descriptions courtesy of konnectdesign.com

The bride and groom are as beautiful as their invitations. Here they are in Argentina on their Honeymoon:
above image from Facebook

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Suite 404
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310.394.1247


A Sweet Fifty Years: 1957-2007


Above: My parents on their wedding day, 50 years ago

Once again, I am deviating from the usual subject matter on my blog to share something a little more personal.


Above: June 22, 1957

There will be no post today or tomorrow because, this weekend, we are celebrating my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary with relatives and friends. An increasingly rare milestone to reach these days.

Still wonderfully in love, mutually respectful of one another and the best of friends, my parents actually don't know how lucky they are. But I do.


Above left: My dad, 1955 and right; my mother,1957

Above; My parents today, June 2007

Congratulations Dad & Mom!

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