Catchin' up

Less than two weeks for the wedding, and I’m not even half way done with distributing the wedding invitations. Those who know me would find this easy to believe because I’m a lazy bum. I’m so lethargic it’s not even funny. But I realized there are two major reasons for my laxness in this case. 

First, we put in a great deal of effort in making these personalized cards for our friends. Swati is constantly on a quest to do even regular mundane things in a little offbeat way. So obviously she we wanted to do something different with the wedding invitation for our friends. My suggestion was a vinyl record with function names and dates as the tracks behind the vinyl cover. The front would probably a photograph of us dressed as celebrities (my suggestion was Elvis and Marilyn Monroe).

 

Several such ideas were shot down before Swati chose our current design. I had almost convinced her that one good picture with some text would do just fine, and we went to Pulkit to take that one photograph. But he suggested doing a whole series of movie poster style pictures! I just knew Swati was loving the idea, and Pulkit said he would get something he could probably add to his portfolio. Now this meant dressing up and getting hundreds of pictures clicked everyday – NOT the kind of effort I’m a fan of! We would dress up and get one or two styles clicked in a day. So the whole process took about three weeks. But we did it, and it was crazy fun thanks to Pulkit and Charithra! Now, having made a card that we were thoroughly happy with, especially after having put in so much effort, I was going to go all out and distribute these cards by hand with pride…

Secondly, this gave me chance to meet up with a whole bunch of friends that I hadn’t met in very long. This has been taking me all around the city to meet friends. So I’m taking my own sweet time meeting people one by one and handing over the cards so that we could catch up (my experience with other friends who are married has told me that hanging out with friends often takes a backseat once you’re “settled”). Also, hand delivering meant getting to hear praises about the card. So whee!

 The Envelope

Inner card Front & Back