The story behind our wedding logo...

So, this post is a little bit about how I fell victim to the Wedding Industry.  Before I started reading about wedding blogs, I had no idea that people created their own little wedding logos - little personalized tiny logos that was supposed to represent the couple and their wedding.  But, I got sucked in, and therefore we had to have a wedding logo.  I am so ashamed... please don't judge me!

 We are getting ready to send out the first "official" wedding correspondence to our guests (the save-the-dates), so we needed to create our wedding "mark" or wedding logo.  And when I say "we," I really mean Mr. Rocks.  He is definitely the artistic talent in our duo, and he single-handedly created the following masterpiece....

(artwork by Mr. Rocks)

And here it is in gray-scale.....

(artwork by Mr. Rocks)

The actual logos have our wedding date on them, but, ya know...internet and all....

This baby (in either color or black and white version) will grace the envelopes of our STD's, our invites, the water bottles we are going to give out...basically any paper-product we give to people.  So, I hope you all like it!

Do you want to know our inspiration for our wedding logo?   Well, as you know, we are getting married on the pedestrian bridge at Bahia Honda State Park.  That pedestrian bridge used to be a railroad bridge, and was paved over as the era of trains in the Keys came to an end.  See, waaaay back in the day, there were no bridges connecting the Keys together.  Henry Flager was the owner of a railroad comglomerate who decided to build a train track from Jacksonville to Key West.  This was a difficult task, plagued with several hurricanes during construction, and many of the workers died along the way.  But in the end, the first train arrived at the Key West station in 1912 with a very old Flager in the first car.  The story of the railroad construction is actually pretty neat, and if you have the time, you should check out this link.

It is because of the railroad that there are bridges in the Keys, and eventually, the railroad bridges were converted into car bridges.  But since we are getting married on one of those old railroad bridges, we thought it would be appropriate to pay some homage to the Flager Road...

(image from Gold Coast Railroad Museum) 

(image from Flagler Railroad Photos)

As you can see, Mr. Rocks took elements from both emblems to create our wedding logo.  I love our logo!  And I love that we can pay a little bit of respect to Flager's Folly.