Showing posts with label Gladstone Hotel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gladstone Hotel. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Jane & Luis - Beautiful finished album

From the first time I met them, I knew I really liked Jane and Luis. They are quite simply awesome. We had a great time shooting their engagement photos, and their wedding last summer at the Gladstone Hotel was fantastic :)
So it was with great joy that we presented them with their finished album last night - and they loved it! This is a relatively new (to me) album company that I'm working with - Finao - and they make the most beautiful hand-crafted flushmount albums that I've ever seen. The choices for cover materials are nothing short of fantastic. And the attention to detail in the craftsmanship is above and beyond anything I imagined possible. Here's a peek at the album I designed for Jane and Luis...

The cover material they chose is called "Green Room".. I wish you could touch it right now!



Instead of being press-printed (like a coffee table style album), these are actual archival photographic prints flushmounted to board to give not only fantastic quality in terms of colour-matching and richness, but an incredibly solid and sturdy album..


I love how this style allows for an image to flow across the centre of the spread - it made it a very fun album to design :)


Jane & Luis thought a keyline to match with the cover material would be great - I couldn't agree more! (love those rounded corners..)


I had a custom studio die made up; they were a bit concerned about the fine details around the edges, but it turned out so beautifully!


I must admit, I was so in love with this album that it was a bit hard to see it go! It really makes me so happy to know that Jane & Luis will love and share it for many years to come :)

Thanks again to you both Jane & Luis for inviting us to share in this amazing celebration of your lives together!

xo
Jessica + Norman

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Jane & Luis - Classy Retro Wedding at the Gladstone Hotel

The theme: a "Mad Men"-era feel
The location: The Gladstone Hotel in the super-cool West Queen West neighbourhood of Toronto
The couple: Jane & Luis, who we had already fallen in love with while doing their engagement photos a couple of months ago

We started the day off by meeting Jane & Luis near the Gladstone to enjoy the fabulous classic car that event planner Kristina Chau had found for them..


(We all loved this - apparently the rear window being able to go down is very rare..they only did it for two years on this model)




Classy start to the day or what?


Next, we headed inside (by now we were all in need of some air conditioning!)...