50th Wedding Anniversary

This is a photo of my parents on their wedding day on Dec. 22, 1957.

I printed this photo on 100% cotton archival unbleached paper which accompanied a 5 page golden wedding anniversary invitation laced in gold traditional fonts designed on my Mac and printed through my Canon Pixma MP210 (developed on Gwyn's HP 2100 and originally tested on Julia's dinasaur HP). Wrapped it all up in golden leafed rice paper, with trimmings cut with an exacto knife (which I had to prove I was at least 21 years old in order to purchase it.....score!), even tailored the trim with my secret cutting technique so that each formal dressing was original to its future owner, and then sealed it with an embossed "M" golden mongram. Packaged this into another larger envelope, lined in gold metalics, and was hand addressed by me to each recipient in a danelian/caligraphy style that I first learned in elementary school and have been developing slowly ever since. Put a 58 cent heart stamp on it and snail mailed it off somewhere in the country by dropping it all off in a blue box at the post office at the corner.

Took me a good 10 days to figure out what exactly I was doing and complete since all the major invitation companies (Papyrus, Kate's and Arthur's) shot down most of the ideas I had because they couldn't complete my order in any less than 2 weeks, possibly 3. By the time I gathered all the politcally correct paper (or should I say "sheets") and necessary cutting tools that I was old enough to buy (the sales people made my day and gave me a great idea for a story!), I'm hoping my parents will love the wedding anniversary invitation I created for them. They should have received it today at their Floridian residence.