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Wedding photo collage, cut to a bride and groom holding each other
$9.99
A wedding photo collage, cut to the outline of a bride and groom holding each other, her dress falling away to the hem and his shoulder squared behind her. The two of them read as two at every count and every size the shop sells: the gap between their faces stays open because the layout is told to keep only cells sitting well inside the outline, not because you have supplied enough photographs to force it apart. What the count buys is the fineness of the edge, and what it costs is the size of each picture - on a thirty by forty sheet fifty-five photographs come out close to three inches across, four hundred and fifty come out about four-fifths of an inch. The groom's shirt front is left as bare paper on purpose. The two lines underneath stay editable text in Canva.
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How many photos fit
Every figure comes from the layout engine rather than a rule of thumb. The suggested count is where each photograph prints about two inches on each edge - large enough to make out a face across a room. Because this collage is cut to an outline rather than filling the sheet, that is far fewer photographs than a plain grid of the same size takes. The minimum is 23 photos; below that, parts of the outline can be left without a photo.
| Print size | Photos | Suggested |
|---|---|---|
| 12 × 12″ | 23–60 | 23 |
| 12 × 18″ | 23–100 | 23 |
| 16 × 20″ | 23–140 | 25 |
| 16 × 24″ | 23–170 | 35 |
| 20 × 20″ | 23–180 | 25 |
| 20 × 30″ | 23–275 | 55 |
| 24 × 24″ | 23–250 | 35 |
| 24 × 36″ | 23–375 | 80 |
| 30 × 40″ | 23–525 | 100 |
| 36 × 54″ | 23–875 | 190 |
| 40 × 60″ | 23–1075 | 225 |
Questions
How many photographs should I use?
As many as the two of you have worth printing, and no more than that. The minimum in the table above is measured on this outline rather than shared with the rest of the shop, and the couple reads there - two heads, the gap between them, the bouquet notch, the fall of her train all present. What a higher count buys is a finer silhouette edge, and it is bought with the size of each picture: on a thirty by forty sheet the typical picture goes from close to three inches across at fifty-five to about four-fifths of an inch at four hundred and fifty. A few hundred is the usual answer, because a wedding generally has that many worth keeping, but there is nothing in the shape that demands them.
Which size should I pick?
Any of them - this outline is sold at every size on the list, from twelve by twelve up to forty by sixty. The sheet decides how large each picture prints rather than whether the couple reads: at fifty-five photographs a twelve by twelve puts them at about two-thirds of an inch across and a thirty by forty at close to three inches, and the figure is the same figure on both. If it is going on a wall and being seen from across a room, the large sheets earn the space; if it is a desk piece or a gift to post, the small ones hold up.
Why is the groom's shirt white in the picture?
Because it is drawn that way and filling it costs more than it saves. The white V from his collar to his waist is the shirt, with the bow tie across it and the lapel notched beside it, and it is the only thing in the outline saying he is in a tuxedo. Filled with photographs it came back as a ragged patch with no edge to read, which is worse than the paper. The bride's bouquet went the other way for the opposite reason - the flowers are not drawn, the gap was all there was of them, so it reads as a hole rather than as flowers and it is filled.
How even are the photographs?
More even than anything else sold here, and that is a side effect rather than a design. Keeping the gap between their faces open means telling the layout to accept only cells that sit well inside the outline - a far stricter rule than any other shape uses - and the same instruction throws away every sliver along every other edge. Rendered across the counts on a thirty by forty sheet, the smallest picture is between 87% of the typical one and exactly its size through the middle and upper part of the range; down at the fewest we sell it drops to about three-quarters. On most shapes here that figure is between a third and two-thirds.
Will it look like us?
The outline will not, and it is worth saying plainly before you buy. There is no face, no hair colour, no dress a designer could name - a bride in a fishtail and a bride in a ballgown leave much the same silhouette at this scale. What makes it yours is entirely the photographs inside it, and with a few hundred of them that is a whole courtship on one sheet rather than a portrait. The names and the date underneath are ordinary text and they are where the two of you get named.
What arrives, and can I change the wording?
A Canva template with the outline already cut and every one of the cells positioned, opening in a free Canva account. You place the photographs, keep or delete the two lines, and export at the size you are printing. Nothing is printed or posted by us. The lettering is live text, so the names, the date, the typeface and the size are all yours, and the file stays in your account - a wedding collage is often refilled once the professional photographs arrive.
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