Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Rock rock rock and roll.

This post has been a long time coming! Though I sent out thank you cards after the wedding last August, I wanted to publicly thank four amazing ladies for their very special wedding gift to us.

Aileen, Gaby, Katie, and Perry all pooled together to get famed illustrator Rob Dobi to create a framed illustration of me & Jesse! In fact, of Jesse proposing to me!


You may be familiar with Rob Dobi's name from his site Your Scene Sucks. He also provided the illustrations for Trevor Kelley & Leslie Simon's fab book Everybody Hurts! Apparently, you can get illustrated yourself or commission Mr. Dobi to illustrate someone else, a la my four fab friends! Check out how here at Please Draw Me, where he also displays us along other couples he's illustrated:


When Jesse and I opened the gift, I immediately recognized Dobi's hand. I couldn't believe these girls did it! They worked with him to create all the minute details, too! (From my yellow bridal shower dress, my Harajuku Lovers heels, Jesse's Nikes, Jesse's Ben Sherman shirt, Jesse's tattoos!) And now we have a lovely (and crazy accurate) illustration of Jesse and me to memorialize the beginning of our lives together. My friends rule! So, again to Aileen, Gaby, Katie, and Perry - who all have lovely blogs of their own - THANK YOU!!

14 comments:

  1. Ah! That is such an awesome and creative gift!!

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  2. Liz - right?! I was blown away. So GREAT. I have awesome friends.

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  3. WOW! That is seriously one of the coolest gifts ever! Kudos to your friends--top notch idea.

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  4. Lyndsey - RIGHT?! Still amazed and I got it almost a year ago!

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  5. that is amazing! your friends had the best idea ever!

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  6. I echo Lyndsey! What an amazing present. And it TOTALLY looks like you two!!!

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  7. That is so cool! How fun it will be to look back at it in many years!

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  8. What an awesome gift. You clearly have some friends who love you. I so want one of these, although it would probably be me and my cat ha.

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  9. Such an amazing and unique gift! Way better than a toaster. I also genuinely love the fact that the ring looks like a Ring Pop.

    Just out of curiosity, is this an accurate representation of the proposal? Or was there some poetic license?

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  10. Erica - Yes!

    Ginny - I think getting you & Bosco drawn together might be the most amazing thing you could ever hang on your wall. Seriously. I want to do that now. Haha.

    K - the ring was a shout out to the giant, blinking ring the girls got me for the bachelorette party! See how much they paid attention to details? Haha. And no, this is not what the proposal looked like AT ALL! It's an artist's rendition of me & Jesse in a certain position, I guess. He proposed in a restaurant in a dark corner while Blur was playing, ha. You can read about it here: http://jessicaxmaria.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-he-proposed.html

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  11. Awww this is such a memorable and unique gift! It's amazing!

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