07/12/2025
It’s been an adventure and a true blessing to say the least from start to finish. Blessing to have had the opportunity to create what I believe turned out to be a beautiful, keepsake art piece for the Vera family. 🌳💍
It was a tough task planning and cutting out sections of the wood canvas, however, after building and planning placement, it flowed perfectly together. With the wedding bouquet/ arrangement, I melded the petals and leafs forming them into a tree of life form, in order to represent the newly shared life/union.
Other materials incorporated were their champagne bottle as the tree trunk, which is the actual bottle they shared together at their wedding celebration, the bride’s veil that I lined the wood canvas and I also decided to pull through certain areas I had cut out to help with the balance and also encapsulate where the bottle sat inside the canvas as well as the small wedding vase.
More items incorporated were the wedding handkerchief, wedding invitation, wedding cake alebrijes, wedding sparklers, wedding garter and printed and included their wedding vows/quotes to each other on the canvas — leaving all items intricately secured and formed into one memorable art piece.
The framing is a custom, wood shadow box frame with velvet matting to help enhance the color scheme they had at their wedding.
Custom framing done by House of Frames located in Harlingen, TX.
All in all, this family gave me free reign to use my creative skills which I’m grateful for, however, through the process I remained committed to having full transparency for the design, from the sketched idea to start, cost for materials, time it would take, and even the experienced hiccups that occurred causing delay throughout.
I did my best to not only capture their wedding memories, but also the colors and theme as well.
I am so glad they fell in love with their art and that it is now finally a forever art piece for their home❤️