For the past week and a half we have been in celebration of Andi’s wedding. The nuptials took place last weekend in Yellowstone, and we’ll get to that later. But she came to Utah (from Dallas, Texas, where she and Jeff live), two weeks ago to finish all the final prep with her mom.
Since I was her Matron of Honor, I decided to throw her a little bachelorette party. But, since none of the wedding party was in town besides me and her parents, it ended up being the six of us (Jeff, Andi, Chris, Cheryl, Wyatt and me). We had a great time going to the Utah Arts Festival, showing Jeff the Salt Lake Library (which was next to the Arts Festival) and taking everyone out to dinner at the Red Iguana. It was nice to just socialize and spend time with everyone before the rest of the wedding party descended, and Andi’s guests and nerves caught up to her.
Andi also asked me to make the vow book for the celebrant to read from. I decided I wanted to make a pop-up/shadow book. It took a while to get the exact layout clear in my mind, but once it did, everything came together just fine. I know some of these pictures are out of focus, and otherwise pathetic, but you get the general idea.
As one last kinda cool side note, Andi realized the day of the reception that she didn’t have a guest book for people to sign. So she decided to use a book that I made years and years ago, when I lived on the Indian Reservation (I’ve never written about those adventures here . . . well, maybe someday). It was a basic book with hand sewn blank pages, a black paper cover with a brown paper spine, a single cottonwood leaf that had turned golden was embroidered on the cover with gold thread. (The leaf had help up shockingly well over the years) and it had a brown twine tie. Thing is . . . it was made in the very early days of my book making, and it was-rustic-in its quality and construction. But perhaps that matched the feel of the wedding in Yellowstone. I don’t know why she happened to have that book with her, but I thought it was flattering that she would use it for something!
I made this invitation for Andi’s Bachelorette Party.
I wrote the text for the vow book using Cezanne and Garamond fonts, and embellishing with raspberry red and lime green. I printed it on vellum paper, and then backed it with white card-stock to help the text stand out more.
This is one of the shadow pages – like my “Lady of Shallot” book. It’s Andi and Jeff overlooking Lower Yellowstone Falls. The actual wedding ceremony took place only a couple hundred yards from here, at Artist Point.
This is the second shadow page. It’s Andi and Jeff with the forest behind, and a summer night sky with a full moon. Though you can’t see it in the picture, Andi’s entire dress is coated with purpley moonlight glitter, and the moon and stars are outlined in silver glitter and the moon is cut out of pearly iridescent construction paper.
I took these pictures of Andi and Jeff. I was taking pictures of Andi in her dress at the home she grew up in in Summit Park. I then added the antiquing effect to create a more vintage look.
This is another pop up page, with layers of forest, and Andi and Jeff in the foreground. Again, Andi’s dress is glittered.