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The spread

Same frames as the album, paired differently.

A story leaf re-pairs the day. On the home page these four plates sit beside their own hour; here they sit beside the hour they answer, which is usually a different one. That is the whole argument for the seam. The plates themselves are drawn light rather than photographs, because a demonstration has no business showing you somebody else's wedding.

Morning, as logged

  • 08:15 we arrive, kettle already on
  • 11:00 forecast turns, awning found
  • 13:30 dress on, room cleared
  • 14:00 rain starts, stays two hours
As it happenedLeaf

The rain arrived on the hour like it had been invited.

Morning, as remembered

Nobody panicked. Dara's brother went out for umbrellas and came back with nine, all different colours, and that is the photograph everyone talks about.

As it feltLeaf
A drawn placeholder plate: five candle flames burning low across a dark warm room, rendered in the Halflight palette.
As it happenedPlaceholder21:12

Four hours earlier, the same two people, holding still on purpose.

A drawn placeholder plate: a plaster wall giving way to open daylight, one lit rim running down the jamb.
As it feltPlaceholder17:05
A drawn placeholder plate: a single strand of bulbs slung across a near-dark room, the floor beneath it barely reading.
As it happenedPlaceholder22:40

Fifteen hours before, on the same table, waiting.

A drawn placeholder plate: early window light filling a room from the upper left, one soft shadow settling at the lower right.
As it feltPlaceholder07:40

What was delivered

  • Set [set your frame count] frames
  • Preview [set your preview window]
  • Album [set your album spec]
  • Held [set your archive term]
As it happenedLeaf

The last leaf is always the one they read out loud.

What they wrote after

[Real couples write their own line here. Until one does, this bracket stays, because a made-up thank you is worth nothing to you and less to them.]

As it feltLeaf

Your day would read the same way, with your own hours down the middle.

Hold a date

or look at the three collections

The honest footnote

Ines and Dara do not exist. The plates are drawn and the hours are invented.

This leaf is the shape a real story takes on this site. Duplicate it per wedding, swap the plates and the seam notes, and delete the noindex line in the head when the couple is real.

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