Once the illustration was sorted, it felt bare, so I sourced a large wallpaper sample from 1924 from Etsy and decided to decoupage the illustration on top of that and mount the piece in a box frame. I cut the piece out in a diamond and overlaid that on both a white and black mount to allow it to stand out from the similarly coloured background wallpaper. I hand wrote the bride and groom's names in an era-appropriate font in black ink and painted the inside of the lettering with gold acryilic.
The date of the wedding was written up and mounted in the same style as the illustration. The whole thing was double mounted and framed in a deep box frame. Finished size of the piece is 20" x 16" frame for a 15" x 10" final image.
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