It’s not every day that a beautiful lady passes through my newsfeed street. I see them often.Remember the lady with the t-shirt with a Hermes signature on it? Today’s lady has a smile that is captivating. But unfortunately, the photo that she came with had so much noise, or what some will call dust speckles.
The original photo posted on Facebook.
I decided to work on her. I worked on removing the speckles, especially on the blue channels. After about an hour’s work, this is what I arrived at.
After work on the noisy photo. First pass.
Then I worked further on sharpening the image although I thought it would be at the cost of losing some details. I had to place a limit on how much sharpening I should achieve. You should know that I have one limitation: the camera that was used for taking the photo. So, I had to realize that if the camera was in my hands, then all the fault will be mine for not achieving a perfect lady like the Mona Lisa. I achieved the best I can.
The last pass.
So, make your choice. What do you think about how the noise was removed? If she was doing a catwalk, then you’d realize how distracting the noise was.
This is a puzzling cartoon. So I slept on it for about a week before I discovered the moral. I thought initially that the lady in question had replied to the comment the gentleman did on the blog, but she hadn’t, so I threw away the idea that they had had some “talk” or communication in another form, so why was she complaining?
Now I know she has a right to complain. Her man was married to his computers like so many men are to their cars and material possessions.
I used to have a friend whom I confessed my love to. That was years ago, about a decade. She refused and said I was married to my work. I thought about it for a long time. I really didn’t understand what she meant because I was doing everything to please her. That is the dilemma our gentleman in the cartoon is in.
It was years later, when I began to reflect on my loneliness and on life in general (I started personal diaries for that, you know), that I realized I was so tied to personal success and to work at the cost of my health and friends. I paid dearly for it. Now I do not anymore.
Before I undertake anything, I consider God, family and friends paramount before position and success. I do not take things for granted anymore. I think I gained a lot in understanding humans and human relationships, that is, I gained spiritually, but have not gained materially like I was used to. So I decided to choose between value and priority. I choose priority. I choose the important things in life. I choose to live a satisfied, contented life with God and family values in mind rather than possessions and trampling on people’s feelings.
I have become better for it. I have grown wiser and somewhat aged; in my opinion. I have not made money from this decision but I have gained a lot in health and happiness.
That is what the gentleman in the cartoon will have to realize himself.
It’s like a century. Been back to education for just three weeks; had to catch up on Linux. I decided on using Linux because of GIMP.
I went through my facebook yesterday and decided to touch-up a nice looking lady on my newsfeed street.
This is what I did with her photo. I discovered it had an annoying screen over the view, so I darkened it a little and then accentuated her African face. She has the natural African expression, reminiscent of 2Face’s “African queen.” I highlighted the red channel of the picture so her skin could come out better and then sharpened the photo. Pronto! Before I rush down to do one or two things for the sake of the Almighty above. You know today is Sunday! Gosh, how time flies. Do you know it’s july and the rains are here.?
By the way, the original unedited photo and my edit are below.
Enjoy your Sundays.
Some days ago, someone sent me a message. She was confused about my blog and Facebook page, Engagement Ink. I wrote this piece for her and all readers of this blog. By the way, I’d give anything to have ten people LIKE my Facebook page on Engagement Ink for this month of July.
The focus group of Engagement Ink
Engagement Ink is focused on the family and family institutions, and indirectly on you. It starts right from the wedding day. We love to share our beautiful memories. One of the most memorable in our lives are wedding days. How would you be able to share those memories successfully on the Internet and with your friends online if your photos do not come out very well, if they are not well illustrated and if your videos do not get to all of them? Engagement Ink was created to fill that need. Engagement Ink can also be used for other occasions like photos and videos for events, anniversaries etc.
The principal work I do on Engagement Ink is to process your photos and edit your videos, place them online and make sure your friends and relatives get to enjoy them online as they are used to offline, (if distance and time would permit).
So, recently, you must have noticed that I have integrated a cartoon column and a regular post I have tagged: “This week on my newsfeed street.”
The cartoons are to share marriage and wedding anecdotes; the viewpoints of the cartoonist which Engagement Ink also shares. I believe you will find them valuable. The “this week on my newsfeed street” series was begun because of the dearth of photo materials on weddings and families, a problem I am having, and you know, opportunity and preparedness go together so I have to be practicing on my photo editing skills while waiting for you, the opportunity, to give me an offer of processing your eventful photos and videos for online enjoyment. So the series are practice sections.
Without media, how boring social media would be
Photos and videos are the mainstay of the internet; without them, we’d have only lines and lines of boring text. So, whatever you do on Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn or whichever site on the internet, you must need a photo editor and you should need me. Also, my services are affordable. Why not stop by the Engagement Ink Facebook page and go through some of the older postings; I’d recommend that you start with the Photos app on it. I have two mature service offerings right now, a Basic and Premium service for post-weddings.
Conclusions
Some of you must have received emails from me. I cannot use your photos for the “newsfeed street” series without seeking your permission, although the use is non-commercial. I envision a situation in the future where more photo editors will understand the importance of posting images with visual and aesthetic beauty and join in my work, then we’d see more photos of Nigerians and Lagosians looking not worn and weary, which is not the normal, but enhanced, optimized and looking their best, which you will find when you browse the photo galleries of people from other countries. I wonder why we should be different?
So, in a nutshell, this is what Engagement Ink represents.
Questions anyone?
One peculiarity I have noticed from photos I would like processed so as to increase their aesthetic and visual values, is that most of the photos I chose for this blog come from mobile device uploads. It would be indiscreet to mention the particular devices but either the photos are overexposed, assuming unusual brightness in places that could have made them more valuable, or they are dark and underexposed.
For those of you who do mobile uploads often, I’d recommend you download the instagr.am app on your phone and use its filter, or if that is too inconvenient, use my service, to enhance your photos through my detailed post-processing methods.
My picks for this week.
My picks for this week come from six photos: three are overexposed , exhibiting unusual brightness while two were underexposed and the sixth was a good photograph but had slight contrast problems.
I’d choose to highlight the beautiful sixth first that had a contrast problem. I am choosing it because I know the guy in particular. I frequent the cybercafé he runs. To be honest and this is not a commercial runt, he runs one of the best cybercafés in Satellite town, at Trinity Computer School, and a computer school to go with, as the name entails.
NB: All photos have been scaled to a 410px width to accommodate the spatial limits of my blog.
The original photo as uploaded on facebook.
See after much enhancement, how the walkway and the leaves blend with the environment.
The same photo after post-processing and enhancement.
The next has too much of a bright screen-like curtain masking the photo that even the dark clothes worn by the lady on the left along with her companion looked old, washed and worn.
The original photo as uploaded on facebook.
Now compare with the result after post-processing. Note how the white aluminium panels and the fluorescent lamps seem more gentle on the eyes.
The same photo of a workshop after enhancement.
The other four remaining photos
There are four other photos that you can look at and find aesthetic delights in going through – if you haven’t already on Facebook – while noting the differences between my enhancement work and the original as uploaded by the Facebook user.
The next two are too bright.
The original photo as uploaded on facebook.
I thought she was somewhat careless to have uploaded the photo the wrong side up, so I rearranged it for her.
After enhancement, note the differences in quality and aethetics.
I could have worked on this further, but decided to err on the side of being human.
The original photo as uploaded on facebook.
I didn’t like the luminous glow towards her bust but didn’t have the time.
After processing the original photo downloaded from Facebook.
She looks beautiful, with the cap, doesn’t she?
The next two are somewhat dark.
The original photo as uploaded on facebook.
This was a good photo but I thought I wanted her face to come out of the dark background, so I had to download it for enhancement.
Her skin now glows.
See the differences!
The next was bad, really. I squinted to make out her face and the background.
The original photo as uploaded on facebook.
How different after enhancement.
Post-processed and enhanced Photo. Note the differences.
All for a day’s work of photo processing.
It’s best to do a good thing and get it done well. So, when next you want to upload your photo on Facebook, wonder what your friends would say if you gave them a sloppy photo. What would they say if you presented yourself as uninteresting when there is so much the world has not discovered about you?
Show it with a good photo.
It will cost you only a hundred naira (N100.00) if you want me to process your photos for you. But be assured that the result will be what would make your friends go wow! Message me on my Facebook profile, or simply call: 081-56366920.
Looking good is good business. Show it!
Years ago, arranged marriages were the norm. Sometimes, a relative who lives abroad, whether in America or Europe, makes a request for a marriage partner because he or she wants to marry from home and not some foreigner abroad. If you have not encountered that scenario, I have.
Today’s cartoon is on the theme of people entering a marriage agreement with the believe that they had no say in the arrangement; that they just have to enter into marriage from some arrangement because the partner wields power, money or some other benefits which everyone wants to share.
That is when the marriage agreement looks like some Terms of Service (TOS).
The bride above, Kathy, is in a dilemma because her partner-to-be must possess qualities such as money, power or fame which her family, peers, or closest social circle craves. And he knows it. So, having the bargaining power, she agrees to the marriage arrangement with the benefits it can confer in mind; he knows this and she knows it. So what would he do? He’d make sure he gives her the ten commandments of what he expects of her in the marriage, some reasonable, sometimes absurd. This is what the cartoonist refers to as some Terms of Service (TOS). It reminds one of the long list of terms you encounter when you are installing software. At the bottom of the screen, you will be told: If you agree to these terms, click here, or If you do not agree, click here.
It would be a recipe for disaster entering marriage hoping to get some benefits from it; whether of any of the three above.
But we all do it most of the time.
The Officiating Priest’s point of view
The second dilemma the cartoonist portrays is that after reading the terms of service, the officiating minister thinks she is making a big mistake entering into this arrangement, hence his use of the words terms of service, and reminding us of the fact that most of us, like Kathy, decide to click: I do, whether to marriage or to installing software, even though we do not know a thing about how it works, provided it has worked for others.
That is the caveat. We think because it has worked for others it will work for us.
Well, like for installing software, if you do not like the arrangement again, Kathy or you or I who desire the benefits of money, power or fame, can simply go to the control panel and uninstall the software or apply for a divorce.
That would be a sorry outcome, but that is what everyone does.
May our marriages last forever!
The first interface that appears on my Facebook each time I log in is the newsfeed where you receive the status updates from your network of friends and contacts. I have noticed that one particularity of that feed or street, my own parlance, are text and images and because I am a graphics artist, I tend to have a more than the casual eye for photos. I have also noticed that most of the photos that are uploaded on that street are from Mobile devices.
That is where the problem arises. Most of the photos uploaded from the mobile devices have some quirks or the other because they were not processed by the uploader. Some tend to be depressing or dark, some tend to be overexposed, while others have color blending problems or lack contrast.
I believe that whatever is worth doing, is worth doing well. If first impressions matters, then every impression on my newsfeed is a first impression on Facebook.
So I decided to help. I selected some photos and retouched them and wrote to the uploaders about my work. One of them thanked me heartily, which I appreciated, although the other two have not replied.
The Photos I retouched.
The first photo was that from a woman who looked beautiful in a rural setting sort of way. I liked her immediately I saw her because she came to me as somebody who is frank and down-to-earth.
Her photo though had some faults.
This is the original.
The original overexposed image
First, the color range of the photo above is distorted. You tend not to like how the camera brought out the face. So, I fixed that. The bright lights on her face made her look unappealing; there were so much light irregularities. The contrast also did not come out well. I fixed them also.
This is the final result.
The photo above now processed with GIMP
If you ask me, I will tell you that I spent more than a considerable amount of time on her that I decided that leaving the pimple marks as-is would save me time for other things.
The second photo.
Sometimes, children make us remember the days of innocence. This one did.
The original photo of the innocent child.
The picture is nice looking but the image was also dark with shadows like the one above. The contrast was blurred and that made the face look depressing when taking the background that was bright into view. So I decided to work on it. The background also lacked well defined contrast and I set it also.
You can see the final work below.
The boy's photo processed
The final result made the young boy look intent, intense and determined. Just look at the eyes!
The third picture on my newsfeed street.
The third picture I decided to retouch was that of a young woman who looked set and determined to make it in life.
The original photo
The image was striking and I had to make a comment on it on her Facebook page. It lacked enough lights and that made the photo look blurred somehow. I had to fix that. The face was dark and downhearted compared to the wall and background. I fixed that. I decided to try two tones for the photo to see how she would look. I thought she could make for some model. I also set the contrast for the photo.
I am sure you will like the work.
The first result.
The photo above processed. This one wasn't toned.
See how her face is now bright and she became darkly beautiful.
The second result. I toned this one.
The second processed photo. This one was toned.
I can also work for you.
I see lots of photos on my newsfeed street that needs retouching a lot. Maybe yours needs some post-processing work to look better. Remember, on Facebook, every impression is a first impression and first impressions count.
How much will it cost you?
Only one hundred naira (N100.00). It’s just for network time and for my efforts. I am doing it for you as my friends that is why you come across my newsfeed street. If you are interested in processing your photos, just message me on Facebook; I prefer Facebook because it is tied to my mobile number. Note too that I go to work from noon and return home at about 10:00pm in the night; although the work is just below the old minimum wage, it is still something. So, just message me on Facebook and attach the photos and leave an easily reachable mobile number so I can sms you when I am through processing them. I prefer you pay me cashless (Visa Classic, Naira mastercard, paga etc). Cashless reduces the burden of paying and is easier for a hundred naira.
Remember, first impressions count. Don’t leave your photos as-is when you can add value to them with a little processing.
Marriages have been known to break up when mates do not communicate. But what if both mates want to and love to communicate once in a while, but suddenly the other partner has no time at that moment, or does not have that second to spare?
This is what no marriage or home should be: each mate hiding behind busy schedules or chores when the time for communication and sharing things is needed.
This is the scenario: Wife wants to talk with husband. Darling, do you have a second to spare? Husband is busy with the tires on his car or some other interesting hobby and tells her: I need to get this done now, Darling. If this happens often and on, the wife might become resentful and being human, she could find an excuse to retaliate.
Hence, the above cartoon.
Roles could change both ways. The cartoonist is fascinated with the fact that when any of the mates has a second, it turns out to be not a second to spare at all, because the other is busy and vice versa.
So, the question is: Who is going to give way to the other?
That question should not have come about if communication has not started to break down and if resentment and backbiting has not started becoming a demon who has found a victim.
So, for all you newlyweds and agedly married, lurking behind a curtain of business might turn out to be costly in terms of family communication.
What could used kitchen utensils and used husbands have in common? They have been thrown out of the door and will never be needed. So what would happen if they happen to be found in your sitting room?
The lady here is making it plain to her two divorced husbands that she has no need of them; they came b(l)ack to her on their own. So, was she trying to say she was so dearie and unforgettable as a housewife that they had to come "black, blue and used " again?
Yes. Her divorced husbands have been thrown out before like used kitchen pots to try their luck with other women but as they later discover, nothing beats a capable housewife who knows how to manage her home. So they came back to find her still in the sitting room, still housewifing, still capable and better than other women.
This must have been a poignant victorious moment for her and for tips on how to make your marriage a success.
The idea: Take the "L" out of the "Black".
If you have read the blog on what wedding pages represent, then you should understand the focus of this post. Otherwise, I would advise that you read that article first.
Wedding pages on facebook (WPoF) is an idea that is still in development. The only product that has reached maturity is its “wedding pages on facebook (WPoF) post-wedding picture frames and cover pages.” Engagement ink intends releasing other products and services with time.
The idea and the benefits of that product are all explained in this document which is in pdf format.
I believe that you, as a married person or a professional wedding or events planner, or a merchant in wedding accessories, will find this product to your benefit.
Thanks a lot for your time. Engagement ink hopes to do business with you.
For those who are familiar with biology, I am sure you must have heard of a blight. It is a disease that ravages plants, caused by bacteria, fungi or viruses and discolors the parts of the plant such that they appear brownish or slightly so.
When I took a look at this picture, of the parts of a leaf, I wondered if I could make a blighted image of it.
Although the leaves looked fresh, but at some edges they looked worn out. So I took out my photo editing software, open source mind you, and called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) and tried my hands at blighting the image above.
Since I wanted to change only one color, the yellow colors on the green leaf, I decided the hue-saturation tool was good for the job. I reduced the hue of the photo to -30 until I got one of the primary colors I wanted, something brownish. I then chose that as my primary color. I then increased the darkness of the photo by reducing the lightness to -30 and the saturation to 70. You can see the result below.
On a wishful note, I wanted to convert the photo to the parts of a leaf that were fresh, green and somewhat tender.
Back to the hue-saturation tool again. This time, the primary color was not specific but just the master. I wanted the greenness to be outstanding, so I increased the hue to 20 and increased the lightness to 27. The photo shone brilliantly like green parts of a leaf in spring. It looked so fresh that one could almost touch them. If I wanted the green leaves to appear old and not fresh, I would have darkened it a little with the lightness feature, especially at the edges. On a last note, I decided to reduce the intensity of the color by reducing the saturation by 5, that is, -5.
Most of the pictures you encounter on the social networks you visit are usually in colored. No fault of the poster, because we all want our life to be colorful. But if you do appreciate colors, you would realize that sometimes we want even those colors to be varied sometimes, or to be defined within some fixed ranges, especially for some of us who have color problems.
Color also reflects our mood and feelings; just like poetry. Both fields feed on the artistic nature of the human; both fields can never be dull of monochromatic, else, no one would patronize them. At Engagement Ink we are conscious of this fact and constantly are looking for ways to increase the range of colors you can spice up your images with, while at the same time, increasing the scope of colors you can chose from. Why not visit the colors and tones albums and see for yourself.
For example, while Black&White photos are most favorable for old or historical photos, sepia tones (they are those pictures you think were tainted with light or dark brown colors) are loved by people who want to keep their photos for archival purposes. At the colors and tones album, you can feed your eyes on the panoply of colors you can apply to your photos. All this is to increase the value of your photos and make your family and friends appreciate them more; the same way as you do.
Is there a tone or color which you would like to see added to the list? Send me a message on facebook or email me: nnaemeka.david@gmail.com, and I will surely get the filter for it and include the color or tone in the gallery.
Partnership needed:
Engagement Ink is still growing. If you are a photographer, shoot videos, are into wedding planning and events planning, or even deal on accessories that are linked directly or indirectly to weddings like Wedding Gowns, Suits, rings, invitation cards, you can derive a lot of good by partnering with us, or even adding Engagement Ink’s services as a subsidiary service your company provides and increase your revenue base while adding more value to your product offerings.
Facets:
These are the three facets of engagement ink:list of wedding pages , photo portraits and frames and then, color and tones. These three facets when considered together gives a complete picture of how couples can derive value from having a wedding page.
Because our newly-wedded couple deserve value for their money, and have to consider the sacrifices made by their family and friends to honor and celebrate this sacred and historic occasion, Engagement Ink created this service so these newly-weds can derive value from adding social networking and the cost advantages provided by social networking and the Internet in their pre- and post-wedding plans, as well as marketing the wedding day as an event that wedding Saturday.
Pre-wedding:
the About To Wed couple can scan every necessary wedding information material that is created for their family and friends – invitation cards, menus etc and post it on their wedding page. The cover page for the wedding page would bear amongst other things, “About To Wed”, in line with the tradition and the accepted custom in Nigeria.
Wedding Saturday:
Engagement Ink recognizes the work and effort put in by gown designers, wedding planners, suit designers, hall decorators and lots of people to make this day a success. But on the other hand, we realize that no one has thought of our family and friends who are not able to see all these; those that were invited and would not be coming maybe because of geography or other considerations. Making the wedding an event can close this gap. As an event, those who failed to attend can follow the proceedings, right from when the couple arrive the wedding venue and down to the evening when every leg is tired, bleary eyed and willing to tell the newly wedded couple: “Welcome to the club."
Post-wedding:
Whether there will be a honeymoon or not, that is left to the couple, but there will be photos shot during the wedding and videos also shot during the wedding for the couple to distribute to their family and friends who have all gone back to their destination. Who can do this? No other but Engagement Ink. You should not spend all that money just to keep those photos and Video CDs in a drawer to gather dust and be forgotten. Make your family and friends see them, comment on them and tell you what they enjoyed that Saturday.
Thanks! This is what Engagement Ink is all about in less than five hundred (500) words.
Partnership needed:
Engagement Ink is still growing. If you are a photographer, shoot videos, are into wedding planning and events planning, or even deal on accessories that are linked directly or indirectly to weddings like Wedding Gowns, Suits, rings, invitation cards, you can derive a lot of good by partnering with us, or even adding Engagement Ink’s services as a subsidiary service your company provides and increase your revenue base while adding more value to your product offerings.
Wedding pages are the sum of a couple’s married life, starting from that day, as profiles are to individuals and groups are to groups of persons sharing the same interests. Wedding pages are forums where married people can share the joys, tears, celebrations and anniversaries of their married life with their family and friends, using photos, videos, notes and events. They serve as a bridge between isolated singleness and communal groups. See a sample wedding page for couples:note the hall of fame entries at the photos app.
You don’t need another profile page after you have a wedding page. This is to reflect your change in status, from a single to a married. You should encourage your mate to post on the wedding page with you, as often as possible, so your family and friends, will be able to understand the changed status both of you are having.
Partnership needed:
Engagement Ink is still growing. If you are a photographer, shoot videos, are into wedding planning and events planning, or even deal on accessories that are linked directly or indirectly to weddings like Wedding Gowns, Suits, rings, and invitation cards, you can derive a lot of good by partnering with, or adding Engagement Ink’s services as a subsidiary service your company provides. Thereby increasing your revenue base while adding more value to your product offerings.
Product Highlight: Wedding Pages on Facebook (WPoF) pages: Post-wedding picture frames and cover pages.
Engagment Ink’s “Wedding Pages on Facebook (WPoF) pages: Post-wedding picture frames and cover pages” consists of three items which have been organized into two packages.
The items are the wedding pages, the colors and tones, and finally the frames for the photos. You can find all of this by paying a visit to the Engagement Ink’s Facebook page Photo app.
The packages are:
The Basic package:
This offering comes with a maximum choice of 3 colors and tones for toning your pictures, a maximum choice of 5 portraits and frames and any choice of cover pages from our gallery or other galleries, or your own idea. The Basic service accepts a maximum of
fifty (50) photos. The Basic service costs seven thousand (N7, 000) naira.
The Premium package:
The premium offering comes with an unlimited choice of colors and tones from our colors and tones gallery on Facebook, an unlimited choice of portraits and frames and a maximum of hundred (100) photos. You can choose any cover page idea from our gallery or any other gallery, or even propose your own ideas. The premium service costs eleven thousand (N11, 000) naira.
For further information, please, do download this document, “Wedding pages on Facebook.”
The list below, along with the links that accompany them lead, when clicked, to wedding pages that have been created by Engagement Ink on Facebook. The cover pages reflect different moods and wedding outlook. I believe Engagement Ink has a cover and wedding page that reflects what you want your family and friends to remember about your wedding and subsequently marriage life.
This was for a couple who were my first client. The pictures were taken from a one and half year old video cd of the wedding. I tried my best to sharpen and remove much of the faults in the images. The link to the photos pages are here. Note particularly the Hall of Fame albums. The five album series is a pictorial story of what happened that Saturday, 18th December, 2010.
This was for a couple who were my second client. The wedding took place on the 21st of April, 2012. The wedding page is still work in progress. See the bottom of the timeline for a pretty invitation card photo.
This wedding page was designed with lights overcoming darkness. It was designed for any couple who think on the bright side of life. I played with lots of lights on the cover page.
This wedding page is just a sample copy of a design with freshness greenery in mind, although I chose to make the grass dark. It is for any couple who believe the wedding day and their marriage should be memorialized with fresh artifacts of daily life like flowers, blue skies etc.
This is the first About To Wed Facebook page and will serve as template for all others. The template was inspired by the Guinness stout poster scattered all over Lagos. It gives the idea of power but one that is dynamic, in transition and fearsome.
I did the cover page for this wedding page with reflection in mind , like the reflection images of water and glass. I believe reflections show us a second side of what we are, as it should for any couple.
Ever thought of rare luxurious vintage wine? That is the emotion this page inspires. This sample copy was meant for couples who love to live their life to the full.
Ever had butterflies in your stomach? Ever wanted green lawns with all the beauty of purity and chastity? Butterflies shares such emotions with couples as they begin marriage.
This wedding page inspires motion and action. Like a wind strewing flowers, which happens often in my neighborhood. It evokes fast paced spiral movement. Good for couples who like things digital.
When the sunrises, a new day is heralded. This wedding page makes every day of your marriage to seem fresh, and bright. Couples who love lights and playing with lights will find this page to their taste.
It’s another week. Last Saturday was stressful and full of so much pressure. From when the cock crowed to 10:00 am when the wedding would have started, your mind raced with a million thoughts about what might go wrong.
Fortunately, nothing went wrong. The marriage register has been signed. You have kissed the bride and the bride has kissed you. Your family and friends who came to celebrate and joli with you have danced and eaten to their bellyful.
It’s Monday. The wedding has come and gone. What you have as newlyweds is a marriage ahead of you. Would you count a wedding page as one of the assets you possess?
WEDDINGS WERE DESIGNED TO BE HONORABLE IN GOD’S EYES
Weddings were always approved by God and the State. You and your mate have done the right thing. You have earned the right to be called Man and Woman, Mr. and Mrs. You can beat your chest to the whole wide world about this. She is your woman, the only one God has given to you.
Marriage is such a sacred institution that whoever made the wedding day its birthday knew what honor and sacredness meant.
Wise couples though do not celebrate only in the eyes of the public. To make your married life a success, you must make sure you can celebrate and share your beautiful moments in the private.
HOW ABOUT THOSE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS SHOT ON THE WEDDING DAY?
Ask any couple: “How many of your guests came back to see the wedding photos and videos after the wedding Saturday?” I bet you, only a meager few, and those who did, must be living at close quarters.
Why should you take so much pain to pay for the production of something which enjoyment no one gives you a feedback on?
Now engagement Ink thought that money should be put to wise use. So I created this idea of a wedding page on facebook, complete with the complete story of how the wedding went, with the intention that after the wedding Saturday, the wedding page would become a marriage page.
So on the timeline, for which pages I term “public figures”, the start of the page is your wedding page. Check out the timeline at the bottom of the wedding page for my first client,Henry and Emmanuela Nze, or the prospective clients I am working on, Emeka and Dorathy Chukwu. The wedding pages were created with the idea that the wedding day is the birthday of a marriage life.
ENJOY THE LIFE YOU HAVE AHEAD OF YOU
You and your mate have so much life ahead of you. There will be the wedding anniversaries, maybe the first year, fifth year or tenth year anniversaries. The babies will be coming. Six years after, Junior would be celebrating his entrance into secondary school. You’d have much celebrations ahead of you during your marriage. Why not celebrate them with fond memories, with photos and videos online that would never grow old, not even when sepia toned?
Share all this on the page you have created for yourself and your mate. Social networking and the Internet has given mankind another media where we can form a close knit society of shared values, shared joys and hopes.
Engagement Ink asks you to go through the pages which links you can see above and understand what I mean by asking you to come “…taste weddings that are interactive.” Maybe I can also add, “…marriages that are interactive.”
This is the sequel to the introductory post on this blog. As you must have read, if you desire to reduce and eliminate the uncertainties and costs of communicating your wedding event to your family and friends while adding value to your weddings, then Engagement Ink is the right place to visit.
How do we go about doing this?
At Engagement Ink, the value of social networks is harnessed to their fullness. Through pages, groups and friendings, your wedding page builds a web of connections where your communications have a reach as never before imagined. Name it, be they connected through their mobile devices, emails or social networking profiles, building a web of connections to each and every one of your family and friends has never been easier.
Through posts and comments on your wedding page, along with relevant photos that tell visual messages, you have the opportunity to tell the story of your weddings. How you met your spouse, why you decided to tie the knot, what the arrangement for the wedding are, before the D-day. On the Saturday of the wedding, you as a couple have the opportunity to reach out to your invitees who will not be attending through social channels so that whether through their mobile devices or personal computers, they can a part of the wedding by creating the wedding as an event. After the wedding, Mr. and Mrs. now have an added opportunity to share and make their family and friends discover the secret of their love and what happened on the wedding day.
Truly, weddings have never been more fun and interactive than now.
Engagement Ink gives the couple a big opportunity to make their appreciation or a big “Thank you” to all those who made the wedding a possibility through the wedding page connected through a web of connections that amplifies the message they wanted to say from the very start: “What a beautiful thing, to be husband and wife.”
Make your marriage honorable and sacred. Make Engagement Ink a part of your wedding arrangements and you will never forget reliving the unforgettable moments even one, two or ten years in the future.
Engagement Ink. As is said, weddings were meant to be interactive.
We all love weddings, especially myself, even if it seems I am cursed to bachelorhood. So, we think about them whenever Saturdays there is the opportunity to attend one.
On the other hand, unless you have been part of a team planning for a wedding, you will not realize the enormous resources and time that are put to make a wedding a success any Saturday. This is why I thought couples needed another helping hand in order to make their weddings a success.
The cost of organizing a wedding is enormous. There is the cost and uncertainty associated with sending out invitations to your family, friends and well-wishers and waiting for an RSVP that might never come. Cost of budgeting for outlays like venues, cooks, wedding gowns and suits, wedding rings and cakes and scheduling the event itself. There is also cost and uncertainty of how best to communicate the wishes of the couple to the invitees of the wedding. Furthermore, after the wedding, the added uncertainty of producing a photo album and Video CD that might never get to the hands of the intended – attendees and non-attendees who the couple desire to communicate with after the wedding.
These and many other uncertainties and costs which over the years have added to increase in the amount spent by couples in organizing weddings was why Engagement Ink was born. Engagement Ink makes your weddings interactive, discoverable and shareable while reducing the cost of reaching out to your family and friends before, during and after the wedding event.
Here are some ways Engagement Ink intends solving those problems.
