Wedding Photos

Expanding on their letterpress wedding invitation design printing practices, Invitations by Ajalon is proud to announce that they are offering photo wedding invitation printing. Including photos in wedding invitations is becoming a more popular choice for modern wedding invites and Invitations by Ajalon is one of the first printers to provide this service.

Invitations by Ajalon is known for their artisan style letterpress wedding invitation printing. To stay connected to their customers’ needs, they are moving into the photo wedding invitation business. This fast growing and elegant style of wedding invitations designs is perfect for brides that want to make a bold first impression upon their guests.

“Making a photo wedding invitation is a great way to impress your guests,” notes Invitations by Ajalon owner David Walrath. “Guests always love to get a recent picture of the couple to be, and there is no better way to include this in the invitation set than on the actual invitation itself.”

Photo wedding invitations can be made with any invitation style. It is a very simple process that every bride should have access. Using a high speed digital press the invitations are printed in full color.

Invitations by Ajalon is a letterpress invitation subsidiary of Ajalon Printing and Design and has been operating in northern California’s beautiful Sonoma County wine country for over 50 years. They are featured on numerous online publications, have a firm commitment to cultural and religious wedding practices and recently exhibited their work at several invitation showcases across the country. For additional information relating to photo wedding invitation designs or Invitations by Ajalon, please call 707-528-0288 or visit www.invitationsbyajalon.com.

Trish Jackson
Marketing Director
ajalon@ajalon.com

Money appeared to be no object at weathergirl Renee Wright’s recent nuptials. There were two designer wedding dresses, five bridesmaids, a luxury lodge, champagne, diamonds, bouquets of lilies, a chandelier-laden marquee, individual gifts for guests and a lavish fireworks display.

Which made it all the more bizarre that the TVNZ starlet would call on New World in Porirua to bake her wedding cake.

The five-tiered fruit and banana cake with white chocolate frosting was a shout out to her folks, Warren and Marian, who shop there.

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A MELBOURNE bride had the shock of her life after finding wedding photos on Facebook of her husband marrying another woman.

The discovery prompted the woman, “Lucy Woo”, to launch a Family Court action to have her marriage to the love rat declared null and void.

Chinese-born Ms Woo, in her 20s, came to Australia to study and became a permanent resident, then a citizen.

“Eddie Chan” also came out as a student and became a permanent resident.

Mr Chan and Ms Woo were married in Melbourne earlier this year, but it was to last less than six months.

Weeks after the wedding, a friend from China came to stay with the newlyweds.

The friend told Ms Woo that a little over a month before their Melbourne wedding, Mr Chan, also in his 20s, had married a former girlfriend, “Maggie”, in Hong Kong.

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“He had told me he went to China to visit his family,” Ms Woo said.

“I told (Eddie’s) mother that I had married him … She was shocked to hear about our wedding and did not know anything about it.”

When Ms Woo confronted Mr Chan about his earlier marriage, he admitted it.

“(Eddie) told me that his parents and (Maggie’s) parents had arranged the marriage and that he had felt pressured to follow his parents’ wishes,” Ms Woo said.

Ms Woo searched Maggie’s name on Facebook and found an account containing wedding photos of Maggie and Eddie.

The lawyer for the love rat admitted Mr Chan had committed the offence of bigamy.

But the lawyer argued the court should not refer the case to the authorities for prosecution due to “cultural reasons”.

The judge said: “The submission was that the cultural embarrassment and shame which would be brought on both Ms Woo and Mr Chan would be so significant as to create family tensions of considerable proportions.”

But the judge decided he was bound to pass the information on to federal authorities.

The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions said it had not yet received the referral on the case.

There has been one prosecution for bigamy in Australia this year, two the year before, and one in 2008 most resulting in fines.

(I-Newswire) September 17, 2010 – Santa Rosa, C.A.- Expanding on their letterpress wedding invitation design printing practices, Invitations by Ajalon is proud to announce that they are offering photo wedding invitation printing. Including photos in wedding invitations is becoming a more popular choice for modern wedding invites and Invitations by Ajalon is one of the first printers to provide this service.

Invitations by Ajalon is known for their artisan style letterpress wedding invitation printing. To stay connected to their customers’ needs, they are moving into the photo wedding invitation business. This fast growing and elegant style of wedding invitations designs is perfect for brides that want to make a bold first impression upon their guests.

“Making a photo wedding invitation is a great way to impress your guests,” notes Invitations by Ajalon owner David Walrath. “Guests always love to get a recent picture of the couple to be, and there is no better way to include this in the invitation set than on the actual invitation itself.”

Photo wedding invitations can be made with any invitation style. It is a very simple process that every bride should have access. Using a high speed digital press the invitations are printed in full color.

Invitations by Ajalon is a letterpress invitation subsidiary of Ajalon Printing and Design and has been operating in northern California’s beautiful Sonoma County wine country for over 50 years. They are featured on numerous online publications, have a firm commitment to cultural and religious wedding practices and recently exhibited their work at several invitation showcases across the country. For additional information relating to photo wedding invitation designs or Invitations by Ajalon, please call 707-528-0288 or visit www.invitationsbyajalon.com.

Trish Jackson
Marketing Director
ajalon@ajalon.com

About Invitations by Ajalon:

Invitations by Ajalon prints formal, artisan style letterpress wedding invitations. Our stunning invitation sets can be customized with monograms, eco-friendly inks, tree free paper and hot foil stamping.Please visit us at http://invitationsbyajalon.com

Company Contact Information
Invitations by Ajalon

Trish Jackson

2100 Llano Road

95407

Phone : 707-528-0288

An explanation: I married my wife the summer before our senior year in college. She’s studying nursing, I’m studying journalism, and we’re both figuring this out as we go. I’m writing about our first year together at Married in College.

My wife and I recently threw away our pile of bridal magazines. You know the type from the checkout aisle: pictures of fancy things you can’t afford, lists of impractical tips, and ad after ad featuring stern, frowning women vamping in white dresses.

It’s not that they were useless in planning our wedding. It’s just that they were good for a laugh, especially when they attempted the obligatory “Planning Your Wedding on a Budget, You Poor Sap” feature.

Both of us being notorious cheapskates, my then-fiancée and I balked at the price tags they put on things like catering, photography and wedding bands. Our parents had offered to pitch in, but we weren’t about to spend $20,000 in a single day, no matter whose money it was.

So, in the summer of 2010, we set out to tie the knot on a shoestring budget. Here’s how two college students working for just above minimum wage can (and did) plan the best day of their lives:

1. Get your friends involved. This was easily our number-one money saver. We attend a huge state school with a lot of liberal-arts students, so we had no shortage of creative friends to ask when it came time to pick our photographer, DJ, singer, pianist, and wedding planner. In fact, all of those shoes were filled by our close friends and family members, who offered their services either discounted or free.

Of course, this can also go horribly wrong. It’s important to realize that, just because you support your friend’s dream of becoming the next Elliott Smith, he’s not necessarily your best candidate for wedding singer. Practice a little discernment.

2. Do it yourself. “Easy for you to say, Mr. Didn’t Have to Address 300 Invitations,” my wife said when I brought this point up to her yesterday. It’s true, I wasn’t the one teaching myself calligraphy and writing ’til my hand seized up.

My hypocrisy aside, we discovered we could do a lot of things ourselves rather than pay a professional. We ordered sunflowers, baby’s breath and ferns from a local wholesale florist, and a bevy of aunts and cousins helped my bride-to-be arrange them on the night before the wedding. I designed our programs and printed them at home on cardstock.

We found mason jars, hurricane lamps, ribbon, and tulle at craft stores, and we (read: she) created most of the decorations with a little help from a glue gun and a friend’s sewing machine. After the ceremony, we reused bouquets for centerpieces at the reception.

3. Go for a smaller diamond. If you’ve done any engagement ring shopping, you know that the most important factors in determining price are the size and quality of the diamond. So if your fiancée doesn’t require a big ol’ rock — and bear in mind, this is one “if” you must know with absolute certainty before proceeding — then you can go for a smaller diamond and a fancier ring setting.

The setting I saw most often in jewelry stores was the solitaire, where the diamond juts out like an iceberg. The one I ended up picking took design cues from the Depression era, when folks couldn’t afford 4 carats’ worth of glistening carbon and opted instead for an ornately engraved ring with maybe a half-carat diamond. It looks a lot like my grandmother’s. And yes, my wife loves it.

4. Host the wedding and reception in the same place. It might take some logistical finagling to make this happen, but the payoff is twofold: You save money, and you’re less likely to have guests bailing before the reception and leaving you with twelve pounds of leftover asparagus crostini.

We ended up picking a park near our hometown with a conference room and an adjoining kitchen that served as the caterers’ staging area. We had chairs set up in rows for the ceremony, and as soon as it was over, we had a couple of friends spring into action to clear the dance floor and push the chairs under tables.

5. Don’t like it? Skip it. As we considered the possibility of eating leftover asparagus crostini for a week, we had an epiphany: Hors d’ouevres suck. So we didn’t have any. The reception dinner was pork barbecue with mac ‘n’ cheese and salad. Best meal we had all week, and certainly a better deal than baked brie én croute.

Remember that nothing is mandatory. The marriage still counts, even in the absence of chocolate fountains and ice-sculpture swans.

A friend recently pointed out — and I think she was right — that the only people paying attention to the details are the ones planning their own weddings. Everyone else just wants to see you.

All photos by Pat Wright.

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