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Alternative Group Shots

If you're looking for some new ideas for group portraiture, then this second article may just be for you.


Being a creative director, Lara wanted to have some unique post ceremony group pictorials for her wedding.


Joujou, Tim's "Queen of Honor" (below, standing right), conceptualized the group shots based on a Vanity Fair Magazine.



Am also posting this for Jing & Chris, another US-based couple whom I met yesterday. We will be having Jing's family pictorial late this August.


Candid shots from the background are actually part of the pictorial. Here is a nice one showing Tim's mother and sister-in-law walking at the back while I took a photo of Lara's grandmother with the couple.


Am thinking whether the next article will be about some creative reception group setup or about my favorite big band swing music.

Save-the-date

This series will be about some nice wedding ideas done by my clients. First stop are the save-the-date cards.

The Save-the-date card is a standard item being done by most US couples. They normally choose a photo from their engagement pictorial and ask a professional layout artist to come up with a design.

The first sample below was made by Joy & Ron from Chicago.


Joy chose a wedding boarding pass theme since they will be 'transporting' all their US friends to Cebu to have their destination wedding/vacation there. Boarding details can be found in www.flymetocebu.weddingwindow.com. Their BestDog, who is 3rd on their bridal party list, will also be joining the ceremony and taking his vacation. What a lucky dog :)

Our next couple, Sheila & Mike, decided to select a photo with a more symbolic theme. Their 'teaser' cards will be placed inside a vellum-like translucent cover so that one can see the images without opening the envelopes (from either side).

The front side -


The back side -



More design studies are to be found in http://s188.photobucket.com/albums/z153/mikelovesmaelovesmike/save-the-date%20artwork%20by%20redchapz/

They will be 'transporting' me back to Las Vegas come end of November.