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Mrs. Hummingbird Mrs. Hummingbird, Toronto Age and Occupation: 25, Publishing Coordinator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Videogame Designer/Cartoonist Engagement Date: May 4, 2007 Wedding Date: June 28, 2008 Blogging Since: September 18, 2007 Venue: A garden wedding followed by a tented reception on Mr. Hummingbird's father's property. About Me: I’m a pop culture loving, vintage obsessed foodie living in Canada’s biggest city with my fantastic fiancé and our lovable fluffy cat Bettie. I’m stoked to marry my best friend and to throw what I hope will be the most fun and colourful party of our lives.
 
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Mrs. Hummingbird, Toronto Age and Occupation: 25, Publishing Coordinator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Videogame Designer/Cartoonist Engagement Date: May 4, 2007 Wedding Date: June 28, 2008 Blogging Since: September 18, 2007 Venue: A garden wedding followed by a tented reception on Mr. Hummingbird's father's property. About Me: I’m a pop culture loving, vintage obsessed foodie living in Canada’s biggest city with my fantastic fiancé and our lovable fluffy cat Bettie. I’m stoked to marry my best friend and to throw what I hope will be the most fun and colourful party of our lives.
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Our Hummingbird Geek Fest continues with our specially design programs! Since I have a background in journalism and spent some time after my college graduation working for an alternative arts newspaper, Mr. Hum suggested that we design our programs after one of Toronto’s popular weeklies. So, we got to work. Playing to our strengths, Mr. Hum worked on the layout and I wrote the program’s contents.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! It’s the Hummingbird Times!

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The cover of our little publication. We modeled it after Now Magazine.

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The first interior spread. In lieu of an editor’s note and a masthead, we put a thank you letter and little pictorial run down of our wedding party.
(Oh and the picture of the editor is actually a picture of our cat Bettie wearing a little chapeau.)

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The second interior spread. We put our ceremony and rehearsal order and as a man-on-the-street type feature, we used the comments people wrote on their response cards to splice in some humour. It was harder to fill people’s least favourite things about us since a lot of our guests didn’t fill that part out in fear of being mean, but we got some good responses. One of my favourites came courtesy of an actor friend of ours who wrote “They’re so damn tall, which means tall babies and who wants a world filled with giant babies?” Classic.

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The third interior spread. Because not everyone saw it at the time and because some of our older relatives don’t have internet access, we put in the proposal strip from Mr. Hum’s webcomic, as well as a little explanation as to why it was significant and how it came about.

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The fourth interior spread. With our unconventional tables we wanted to give people the heads up about what they were going to need to be looking for, so we put a quick explanation and included a table map with a legend.

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The fifth interior spread. I love movies, so as a silly little thing, I modified my Weddingbee entry about romantic movies and included it on one page and the other page is a list of the loved ones who are no longer with us.

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The back cover. As a fun little activity for people while they waited for the ceremony to begin, we made up a list of 15 trivia questions about us and our relationship.

It took us a solid weekend to put everything together content-wise and we had a crazy time getting them printed*, but after all our hard work, I think that they turned out pretty well.

What do your programs look like? Did you do anything crazy or creative with them? Tell me about it!

*On Friday night, a little over an hour before the stores were going to close, for the second time that week, our printer ran out of ink, so Mr. Hum and I had to run to the subway and scoot our butts down to the Eaton Centre to get a replacement cartridge. Thankfully, we made it with half an hour to spare and managed to pick up a bottle of wine, which we polished off after we were finished with our handy work.

18 Responses to “A Geek Wedding, Part 2: The Programs”

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lulubelle says:

That is so unbelievably cool! I’m a former journalist too, though on the reporting side so my design skills are nonexistent. It reminds me of the mock-up papers people would make for retirements, etc. Except much cooler!

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peachypear says:

Ohhhh… these are SO COOL! While I don’t keep wedding programs, I always read them. cover to cover. repeatedly. I would be ecstatic to be handed one as complete and interesting as this one! A+!!!

BTW - are you going to post all the like/dislike comments that you put in the program? That giant baby one is hilarious, so I’d like to hear them all!

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Miss Green Tea says:

that is freaking awesome!

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Tara says:

LOL, I knew you’d modeled it after ‘Now’ even before you mentioned it. I am such a nerd. :p

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ChicagoSarah says:

You guys rock! I love it!

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Christine says:

These are great! I’m a managing editor and totally dig it!

My fiance’s sister is a crafty card-making fanatic, so I gave her complete creative control of our programs. One less thing for us to do… YEY!

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miss purple says:

Wow, amazing! I especially love the trivia page. What a great idea.

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Jessica says:

Your program has passed the point of cool and tipped over into redonkulousness. I am completely in awe of your creativity and hard work!

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AliCherri1 says:

OMG I LURVE them! They are perfect, nice work :)

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Miss Pomegranate says:

How ironic that the Hummingbirds would have giant babies! ;)

Those are so totally creative and turned out fantastic! I’d be elated if I were a guest at your wedding.

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Mrs. Onion says:

What a fantastic idea! I L-O-V-E it! I’m sure your guests will enjoy the fun departure from the “norm.”

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Christine says:

Your programs are awesome.
I enjoyed reading your other posts … especially how you two have really made this your own thing that represents you. Highlights for me were the post about your man getting into making place cards as well as your cake ideas. And, that picture of the Mario cake is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
Thanks for sharing!
~C

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Miss Pineapple says:

I too love your programs! I knew this post was coming from your sneak peak on Bee TV and now i get to see them in their full glory. Rock it, Humm!

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beanchar says:

I may be a little biased in that I too have an alt-weekly background, but I think these are the best and CLEVEREST programs E-V-E-R.

Bravo Hums!

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Jo says:

Totally fun!

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nowmrswhite says:

what a fun idea!!! good thinking.

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Madelyn @ SWS says:

This is so incredibly cool. What a unique idea! Your guests are definitely going to love these!

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Amy says:

Do you have your program on a template. i would love to see the whole thing? So cool!

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