Ambulance and Other Love Songs

Ambulance and Other Love Songs

Last month I posted about my upcoming wedding and how my fiancèe and I were making our own invitations, complete with a "wedding album" mix CD. It was a pretty painstaking project, but I'm happy to say that we finally finished and many of them have already been mailed out. Here are a few pictures from the process:

Here's everything that went into the envelope (minus the yarn): an invitation card, an information card, RSVP card and stamped envelope, and the CD covers. My fiancee handled the design and then I printed everything at my job on 23" x 35" pieces of thin chipboard, then cut them out by hand into individual cards: the invitation card, the information card, and the RSVP card. 150 of each. Yup, it was a pain in the ass.

(Overwhelmed fiancèe)

Here are the CD covers. We designed and printed sleeves from a template for each CD, which I burned at 8x speed one at a time on my computer over a period of days. Originally, we were going to have them duplicated professionally, but on top of being too expensive, we had copyright laws to worry about.

Here's the completed CD sleeve with burned CD, which we also designed a custom sticker for. We titled it Ambulance and Other Love Songs, to highlight TV on the Radio's track as our song. Instead of just having a boring, random mix CD, we went for a "cool love songs on the radio" theme. To make the point a little more obvious, I found a sound library online and put together a few skits that made it seem like someone was flipping through a radio station and landed on the songs here. The introduction helps introduce the radio feel, and the interlude reiterates it. The tracklist, printed on the backside, is as follows:

1) Introduction
2) "Love You So" by The King Khan & BBQ Show
3) "Love's A Real Thing" by Super Eagles
4) "Keep Me" by The Black Keys
5) "Some Unholy War" by Amy Winehouse
6) "Gimme Danger" by The Stooges
7) "All Is Full Of Love" by Björk
8) "Ambulance" by TV On The Radio
9) "Hands Of My Love" by The Quantic Soul Orchestra feat. Alice Russell
10) Interlude
11) "E.T." by One Be Lo
12) "Into The Sun" by Diplo feat. Martina Topley-Bird
13) "King Of Silence" by Cibo Matto
14) "Missile ++" by Blonde Redhead
15) "Eres Tú" by Aguaturbia
16) "Start Wearing Purple" by Gogol Bordello

And here's how it all came together: stuffed in a fat envelope and shipped off to family and friends, effectively ending the headache caused by this task so we could focus our headaches on future tasks. Success!