We asked our friend Yiying Lu to make for us the opposite of the Fail Whale for our wedding invitation.
She calls her new design “Win Penguins”
We combined the new and the old when we got engaged on Twitter. I asked Laura to marry me on bended knee with ring in one hand, iPhone in the other, in a room that included many friends as witness. In the same way, our invitations include Yiying’s new design and Laura hand-wrote the text of each one with a fountain pen. They were mailed last week.
Thanks, Yiying!
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I cannot express my adoration for every individual element of this design. I'm going to try anyway.
1. Fail Whale rhyming, Win Penguin rhyming. BRILLIANT.
2. The backstory of the couple makes me incredibly jealous. I should be so lucky to find a geek like that someday.
3. The actual design of this invitation is nothing short of charming.
I can go deeper into my mild obsession with wedding paraphranelia, with my fifth tour as a bridesmaid happening this December and my sixth tour next year. Also I have a deep afinity for penguins that may or may not be realted to my desire for Morgan Freeman to read me bedtime stories.
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