I plugged my phone into my computer recently (I have an iPhone, and I’m terrible about updating it!) and transferred some photos to my computer. Way back in the day, I remember wondering why you’d want a camera in your phone. What use is that? I’ve since learned the error of thinking that way—having a camera in your phone means you’ll almost always have a camera with you! For taking pictures of wedding-inspiring things! Or other stuff I guess, but I’ve got a bit of a one-track mind right now.
This display was up in an office building near where I was working in December. It’s our wedding colours! It made me happy every time I walked by. I even considered asking what they were going to do with the big ball backdrops after Christmas, but I chickened out. I did take a photo of the back though too, in case you want to re-create this look.
Grid. Wire. Christmas balls. Go.
This is the other amazing wedding-related thing I took a cell phone picture of:
Now, if you can look past the glare, and the reflection of people in the food court above, this is a window display at Brooks Brothers. See those bookcases those fancy mannequins are standing in front of? Not real books! It’s a painted/printed backdrop! This time, I actually did have the guts to go in and inquire about the possibility of taking one of the panels off their hands when they were done with it. Wouldn’t it make the perfect backdrop for the photobooth at our book-themed wedding?!
The display person wasn’t in when we went, so I was speaking to one of the guys who sells suits (note to self: wear nicer clothes than yoga pants when going to Brooks Brothers). This guy swore up and down that the bookcases in the window were real. ‘I walk past them every day!’ Um, dude, I could tell by walking past them once that they were only 2-D. You can see the screws that attach the printed panels to the walls if you look a little closer. I was on the verge of telling him to go out to the window right now with me and look, but I figured that I needed to keep him on my side. He agreed to take our phone number and give it to their display person—he gave me a business card to write it on, and I also scrawled a note saying “re: bookcase prints in 3rd floor window,” so they’d know what I meant.
After talking with suit guy, I wasn’t too hopeful about the display lady phoning—I was sure that dude would have told her about the crazy lady who wanted to buy bookcases at Brooks Brothers. Luckily, display lady knew what I meant, and called! Sadly, BB saves all their display stuff, so I wouldn’t be able to come along and pick it out of their dumpster. She did recommend a few places that do large-format printing though—this particular display had been printed on foamcore, so it would last longer than just paper.
Have you found any good wedding inspiration ‘in the wild’?
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