Alphabets & figures: customized book-ends made as a wedding gift.
Its December time… and its wedding time! My wife’s very
close friend Richa from Dubai recently got married in Delhi to this guy from
Australia named Akshit: quite a global get-together I say!
For this special occasion of theirs we wanted to make a
really special gift! Knowing that both of them were very fond of reading, we
made for them book-ends in a personalized fashion.
We loved their wedding card, which had these cute-little
cartoonish figures of the bride & groom. And that became our source of
inspiration – to use those figures as a part of our creation.
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| The wedding card was our inspiration |
Now, to make a book-end is a rather simple process. All we
need to do is get 4 blocks of wood and join two of them in an L-shape (make 2 of
these), so as to make the book rests on the standing block and the sleeping one
becomes the base. Once the structure is ready, we can play around to make any
design to match any concept and to personalize it the way we want.
We
got the bride & groom figures printed on wood and made them stand on either
of the book-end -block. In order to give a backdrop, in wood we carved out
their name’s 1st alphabet (A & R) - we did this in the Hindi
typography so as to give a more intricate & beautiful design.
The wood blocks were polished a nice dark brown and the
alphabets we painted them gold: to give that rich wedding feel and to
complement our standing bride & groom.
Our book-ends turned out to look super cute & creative!
With the figures of the bride & groom and with their associated alphabets,
it was a double scoop of personalization. The couple totally loved it. And that
gave us a double scoop of happiness.
A little personalization goes a long way!
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