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To mark our 15th wedding anniversary (7 months late, but I just got the idea to post these now), the AFB proudly presents a very special new feature:
You see, when we got married in September 1994, it was customary to send a nice engagement picture with your wedding invitations. But we didn't think that was quite right for us.
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And we're big Star Wars fans. What better way to celebrate our upcoming nuptials than by enclosing homemade Star Wars-inspired trading cards!! So we designed a set of nine trading cards. Each guest received two randomly selected cards, and the idea was that they could bring them to the wedding and, yes, trade them with other wedding guests if they felt like it.
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We couldn't possibly even begin to talk about these without acknowledging our friend Erik Lobo (now of Cinema Insomnia fame), a Sacramento artist who drew our Yoda, metallic border, and "burst" logo, and who also performed the nearly impossible task of crafting the cards in pre-Photoshop days using film prints, an Exacto knife, and a glue stick.
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Using the classic Star Wars trading cards as inspiration...
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We combined elements to create our own, which used the "burst" from Episode IV, the metallic border from Episode V, and the inner border from Episode VI. Here's Card #1 in our extremely Limited Edition set of 9: Special Delivery!™
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Check back soon for more Trading Card FUN!™
6 comments:
I absolutely loved these cards the moment I received them in the mail with your wedding invitation! Still the most clever wedding-related keepsake I've ever seen. Your friend did an amazing job - it's hard to believe it was done before the days of photoshop! Can't believe it's been more than 15 years already. What a wonderful memory!
PS: Any chance that you'll post all 9 cards? I'd love to see the full set again! :)
This is great...... Can't wait to see them all!!! I know I have a set somewhere, but haven't seen them in years, This will be fun, as you unveil each trading card!
Derek had A LOT of hair back then :)
Yep, I'll post all of them! The original "paste up" sheet is in good shape and provided a good scan this morning. The only photoshopping I did for posting purposes was to remove some "paste up" lines around the text (the only computer generated element.) Those lines didn't show up in the final copies that you received anyway, so I figured it was okay to photoshop them out!
It all does seem unthinkable now without Photoshop, but at the time I remember wondering what we'd do without Kinko's. It was a big deal that we could use the color copiers there!
...and Derek and I both had more hair back then!! :)
Ooooh, yeah...I remember those...
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