Indelible

In the design of this program and our invitations, we aimed to render in paper and ink what we experience together in spirit. In this design, we are able to see ourselves, as one, in our own narrative.

We asked our designer Christina, of Echo Letterpress, to take an unsorted aggregation of elements and make a real design out of it.
The programs and invitations assemble specific cues from our respective cultures into one design as one new ideal. From the Philippines you can see the sampaguita, the narra, and the anahaw; from Trinidad and Tobago, the chaconia, hummingbird's, and the steel pan. Christina did a fantastic job we think. She suffered through our rambling presentations via teleconference and made sense of our musings, and made them a reality.

Working with Christina to put this together, we found, in the heart of our wedding planning, an opportunity to search ourselves and our own cultures for symbols and sentiments of meaning, and to make something new and beautiful from them together. And we thereby reaffirm our passion in our belief that difference can transcend---that it can create something new, perfect and indelible.