Invite (or, what’s the opposite of a Fail Whale?)
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! (And thanks to our friend Bob Meyer of Galaxy Press for printing them.)
UPDATE
Our friends at Laughing Squid blogged about our wedding invite, then Mashable.com posted about it, as did Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop, and the Huffington Post, too.
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Mon, 26th Apr 2010 5:02 am
[...] infamous “Fail Whale” to create an original illustration. Lu calls the result “Win Penguins”. On bended knee, with ring in one hand, iPhone in the other, Dale asked and Laura accepted via [...]
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