Weddingbee Blog

Several months back, I mentioned a little something about making a mini-manga to stick in our programs. I know many of you had voted for ninjas, but in the end I chose to go with Mr. Sew’s request that I keep it as true-to-life as possible.

And since neither you nor I want to read about the ridiculously long process it took me to reach the end, I’m just going to reveal the finished pages!

We’ll start with the cover, which will be a two-page spread. On it you can see all our anime convention costumes of the past, and the location in the back is the San Jose Convention Center as seen from Google Maps.

Sorry for the small blog-picture sizes, hopefully some of it is still readable!





I fear the whole thing may be too confusing since it’s only five pages to span several weeks, but I love, love, love that I now have documentation of how we met. It’s much better than the one-page, no punctuation exclamation of our first kissing experience I journaled about way-back when. Trust me.

And if you need a little more context, this all happened at the end of our freshman year of college. Right after our declaration of like, Mr. Sew went home to Hawaii for the summer, and we spent every night (during free-calling-minute-time) talking and learning about one another. Meeting up again after the summer ended was exciting and scary for the both of us, but a little more for Mr. Sew, as evidenced by his month-long anxiety-vomit-spree.

New love is exciting, isn’t it? I get chills just remembering it all.

Anyway, I’ll be including a copy of our comic in each of our 8.5″ x 5.5″ programs, for guests to read if they choose. I need to figure out the best (and yet still economical) method of printing our approximately fourteen page long program.

As of late, I’m really drooling over tape binding:

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But as it’s fairly expensive, I may just go with the saddle-stitch binding, which is what many magazines and pamphlets use.

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Any good ideas on how to bind a program together? How long did it take you and your SO to reach a declaration of “like”?