We wanted to create an archive of the various bits of the creativity inspired by this event. Below, you will see a collection slowly build of things like the invitations, the favors, pictures along the way and other tidbits!
pictures! | the invitiations | favors, programs & placecards
Pictures!
Photographer's Pictures of the Wedding
Photographer's Pictures of Belen's Day of Princess
CANDID SHOTS taken by guests can be found here.
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To access the images taken by our photographer without remembering a long URL, you can:
1) Go to www.questionphotography.com
2) Click the link in the upper right for "client login"
3) Use the following username and password to access the gallery:
username: davidandbelen
password: themerger
You can contact him via email with requests for prints and sizes.
The Invitations
We chose to create our invitations by using a Do-It-Yourself option offered by InviteSite.com. We selected a style we liked, received all the pieces in the count we needed, pre-cut and with printing templates. Instead of wasting time selecting paper and doing the prep work, we were able to invest that energy in designing the graphical elements, adding our own little touches (like the wax seal) and lovingly creating and assembling each invitiation.
Overall, it was a very enjoyable experience! I highly recommend this route if you have a limited number of invitations to send out and have the time and energy to invest. The results are so personal and we were even able to print it all at home on our inkjet printer.
Favors, Programs & Placecards
The wedding favors were packets of Shasta Daisy seeds. We selected 35 of our favorite quotes to put on the front of the packets, meaning only 3 packets had the same quote. We selected some lovely Japanese handmade paper, designed the packets, printed at home, and then had volunteer help to cut, fold, glue and fill the packets. It was quite a project, but the results were simply beautiful - and very unique! Below are all the quotes we used.
The wedding programs were a 16-page, folded booklet. This sounds obcenely over-achieving, we know, but about 85% of our guest list was from out of town, so the need for maps, schedules, and dining tips seemed important. The guests expressed such gratitude for the extra help, and it was great to hear it!
The placecards were a fun way to designate the only assigned table. We referred to them as the Szazszorszapathy Founders and gave them each honored titles!
Wedding Favor Quotes
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." -- Jelaluddin Rumi
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." -- Herman Hesse
"Not all who wander are lost." -- Tolkien
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -- Ingrid Bergman
"Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved." -- Medieval German saying
"Too much of a good thing is wonderful." --Mae West
'Come to the edge,' he said...They said, 'We are afraid.'...'Come to the edge,' he said...They came. He pushed them, And they flew. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -- Robert Heinlein
"Wit is educated insolence." -- Aristotle
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." –- Tom Robbins
"A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world." -- Louis Pasteur
"Common sense is not so common. " -- Voltaire
"A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from." -- Lin Yutang
"Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, *Grow, grow.*" –- The Talmud
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." -- Douglas Adams
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain
"If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it." -- Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack Sparrow
"The most beautiful sound? The sounds of my wife's laughter." -- R. Williams
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." -– Lin Yutang
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." --Jean de La Bruyere
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." -- Mark Twain
"Dreams are real while they are happening. Can we say anymore about life?" --Havelock Ellis
"The only way to get rid of temptation, is to give in to it." -- Oscar Wilde
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -- Mark Twain
"The difference between [the hard way] and the easy way is that the hard way works." -- t.prachett
"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive." -- Warren Miller
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." -- Douglas Adams
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." -- Henry Havelock Ellis
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." -- Brendan Gill
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." -- Lewis Carroll
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