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Stacey & JoelThe offbeat bride: Stacey, Figure Skating Coach & Graphic Designer

Her offbeat groom: Joel, Motion Capture Specialist

Location & date of wedding: Strathcona Park Lodge between Campbell River and Gold River, BC. August 25, 2007

What made our wedding offbeat: My job as a Graphic Designer was at a wedding invitation design studio. My whole life had been filled with other people's wedding plans for years. I'd always been the one dishing out advice and helping people with their taffeta filled or very alternative plans. So when it was my turn I had lots of ideas but I also knew that everything had to be different from anything I had worked on for a client. Having helped with a few hundred weddings, that was very difficult but it also pushed me to try things I wouldn't have otherwise.

Continue reading "Stacey's elegant stormy wedding" →

24 May 2007

Making the CutI loves me some non-traditional wedding cakes, and this one is almost more landscape than cake. You've got rolling hills of fruits and almond slivers and towers of strawberries and those phallic bananas and holy hell: it's enough sweets to feeds a small nuptial army!

The caption refers to it as a "cake installation" which makes the point that this is more than wedding dessert: this is fucking ART.

(Thanks to The Voice of Eye for the photo!)


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