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title: F.A.Q.
id: faq
photo-url: assets/a_is_for_amy.jpg
photo-alt: A is for AMY who fell down the stairs
photo-title: The first of the Gashlycrumb Tinies - A is for AMY who fell down the stairs
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Right, what‘s with all the drawings on the save-the-date and the invitation?
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They’re illustrations by Edward Gorey (1925–2000), a beloved writer and illustrator from Cape Cod who had a unique talent for strange, whimsical, and macabre works, which, Wikipedia explains, “often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.” He’s best known for <i>The Gashlycrumb Tinies</i>, in which 26 alphabetically named children meet unfortunate fates in rhyming couplets, and for the opening credits of PBS’s long-lived show, <i>Mystery!</i>
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The decorative typeface we used on this site and in our printed materials was made from Gorey’s distinctive hand-lettering.
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Here’s some <a href="http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/biography">information about him</a>. You may also be interested in learning <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160520043348/http://the-toast.net/2015/08/17/how-to-tell-if-youre-in-edward-gorey/">how to tell if you’re in an Edward Gorey book</a>.
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So the weird animals with the speech bubbles?
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Those are excerpts from one of Gorey’s most inscrutable works, <em>The Nursery Frieze</em> (this is not a hint of any kind, by the way). Nobody is sure what the animals are supposed to be. They’re frequently described as “hippopotamus-like.” One commenter on the Internet identified them as capybaras, but <i>obviously</i> they’re not.
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What do the words in the bubbles mean?
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Individually? Look them up, you’ll learn something. Together? We’re pretty sure they don’t mean anything. Sometimes it’s fun just to enjoy words.
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Okay, but what does any of this have to do with your wedding?
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Aha, therein lies a tale. Last summer, on the way out to Cape Cod with a little extra time to kill, we stopped at the town of Yarmouth Port so Matthias could show Rebecca <a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/x1342178056/Big-is-beautiful-Yarmouth-Port-tree-in-history-and-legend">a really remarkable tree</a>. There aren’t many trees around that are worth going out of your way for, but trust us, this one really is. But something even more worth going out of your way for, it turned out, was right across the street: the house where Edward Gorey lived and worked. It’s now <a href="http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/">a museum of his life and art</a>.
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<a href="assets/goreyhouse.jpg"><img class="embedded" src="assets/goreyhouse.jpg" /></a>
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We went back the next day when we had more time available, and found that it was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/the-edward-gorey-house-on-cape-cod-is-the-good-kind-of-ghastly/2017/07/11/b3947db4-4250-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html?utm_term=.57c9da7e1d63">an amazing place</a>, suffused with the whimsy, wit, and weirdness that fills Gorey’s work, and evidence of a personality to match. It’s decorated with his personal collections; the walls are adorned with his illustrations and framed articles about him; and examples of his peculiar humor are everywhere. We instantly loved it.
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<a href="assets/goreyhouse_mantle.jpg"><img class="embedded left" src="assets/goreyhouse_mantle.jpg" /></a>
<a href="assets/goreyhouse_drawer.jpg"><img class="embedded right" style="clear: both" src="assets/goreyhouse_drawer.jpg" /></a>
<a href="assets/goreyhouse_graters.jpg"><img class="embedded left" src="assets/goreyhouse_graters.jpg" /></a>
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Best of all, there’s a scavenger hunt: all 26 of the Gashlycrumb Tinies are represented somewhere in the house, and the task is to find them all. </a>(Watch out for the tour guide who desperately wants to tell you where they all are before you have a chance to find them yourself!)
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<a href="assets/goreyhouse_amy.jpg"><img class="embedded left" style="clear: both" src="assets/goreyhouse_amy.jpg" /></a>
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What neither of us knew that day, though, was that the location would soon become even more important to us. A week later, Matthias proposed to Rebecca beneath the branches of that really cool tree. And so it just seemed natural to adopt Gorey as the patron saint of our wedding.
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<a href="assets/rebeccatree.jpg"><img class="embedded left" src="assets/rebeccatree.jpg" /></a>
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Does the other typeface you’re using have an interesting story behind it?
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Why, yes it does. How very astute of you to ask. It's a recreation of the famed Doves Press typeface, which has quite a <a href="https://gizmodo.com/the-gorgeous-typeface-that-drove-men-mad-and-sparked-a-1686081182">dramatic history</a> in addition to being nice to look at.
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