Weddingbee

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.

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

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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