Weddingbee Blog

Welcome back, wedding season! My cousin H is getting married next week!

Her mom decided that it would be good to give the bride a scrapbook full of advice from all the married ladies in the family. Sounds like a nice present right? Not that I think she needs advice. She’s very practical and smart.

Anyway, my aunt gave me a page to complete, despite my warnings. I haven’t even been married a year yet—my advice isn’t worth beans.

But it was a serious assignment, so I took it seriously.

Workplace all set up, with cousin-in-dress picture ready to go.

I was totally excited to use my new pencil Mom got me to prove my favorite cute-cute store in San Jose hadn’t closed down like I thought it did.

For my page, I went with the tried-and-true manga format. Too lazy to scan and ink on the computer, I did it by hand with some Microns (.005 and .03 size) for inking and a grey Prisma marker for shading. (It was a pretty bad idea though, considering I somehow killed both my hands in the process. So sore!)

To give the page a bit of color though, I cut out each frame of the manga to glue down on a piece of pretty scrapbook paper.

Hours later…

And all in place with a picture of the lovely couple (from our 2nd reception photobooth!):

Want to read? Here’s the frame-by-frame:

Advice #2 is my favorite. Mr. Sew’s is #1.

I hope my aunt doesn’t get mad at me for being gross and borderline-lewd instead of sentimental and loving. And I hope my weird humor doesn’t fly straight over Cousin H’s head. But I threw in a reference to Star Wars and Mighty Ducks in my last panel-personal-message to her. We shared those passions in our youth, so if nothing else, I think she’d like that.

All ready to go, with another sheet of pretty scrapbook paper for the backside!

What’s your favorite bit of marital advice to give out?