Here is our amazing day, beautifully captured by Hugh Forte
Letterpressing the Invitations
Maggie and I combined offset printing with the L Letterpress machine to create our wedding invitations. We made this quick video to show you the process.
Registration between the offset printing and the letterpress wasn’t has difficult as you would think it would be.
The Proposal [extended version]
July 10, 2009
It was a warm summer Friday and Rob and I had planned on a date night. We had a leisurely afternoon, reading and laying in the sun on the beach. We got dressed up and headed to a nice Italian restaurant in Encinitas, When In Rome, that we have been to once before. Rob decided to bring a very special bottle of wine that we had recently picked up on a trip to Paso Robles, CA. I said I thought we were saving it, he said “Nah.. it’s okay. We’ll get another one. We’ll order it if we have to.” I thought nothing of it, except I was pretty certain Rob wanted that wine in particular with our dinner.
We had a fantastic dinner complete with cocktail, appetizer, dinner, the wine we brought, and a desert trio we shared. It was a beautiful night and most of the dinner conversation was about how we were having “the summer of our lifetime.”
Towards the end of the dinner I asked if he wanted to go see a movie or go do something and he said “It’s a nice night, let’s go take photos on the beach, we’ll take long exposures like we did in the desert.” We were still dressed up when we got home and headed to the beach with my digital camera, tripod and a flashlight to write with.
We set up the tripod and I held the shutter open for long exposures for 20-30 seconds. Rob was drawing letters, writing, with the flashlight during those exposures. I couldn’t really make out the words or what he was writing until an expore revealed “make the wave” Little did I know, he was practicing his spacing and letters for what was to follow. After 10 exposures or so, I thought I saw the word “marry” in his writing. The rest of it was all jumbled, so I told myself I was being silly and that he wasn’t spelling that at all.
Then, on the next exposure it became clear. In a 30 second exposure Rob spelled out clearly “Will you marry me?” and he knelt down and waited. The exposure processed and I read it again, and said ‘Awwe. that’s not fair! You are teasing me-it’s not funny”
He was still kneeling down as I was whining about it…he rushed over to me, knelt down again, held the flashlight overhead and opened the blue box with a ring and said “Will you marry me???”
I was shaking and crying, saying “Yes! Yes!!!”
