Envelope Collectives

Envelope film and photograph weddings in Nepal. An editorial portfolio with an admin they run themselves, made at Aurora Studios — where the build was mine: the front end that carries the work at full size, the enquiry flow, and the admin behind it.

What it is

Envelope film and photograph weddings on the argument that the celebration lasts a few days and the memory of it lasts generations. Most wedding sites undo that argument on sight — thumbnail grids, sliders, a wall of packages. This one had to do the opposite: the work at full size, the typography quiet, and only as many words as the pictures need.

Envelope arrived with a clear idea of how their work should be shown, and we refined it into the design at Aurora Studios. The build was my part of it — the front end that has to hold those pictures at that size, the enquiry flow, and the admin behind it.

What the work covered

• 01Frontend build, responsive from phone to desktop — the full-bleed opening frame and a navigation holding three words
• 02The featured couples on the home page, tall cards under the couples’ own names
• 03Stories, laid out as a mosaic sized to the picture rather than to the grid
• 04The gallery: four across and left to run, no captions, no lightbox chrome, no page numbers
• 05Backend and the enquiry flow, with email notification to the studio
• 06The admin the studio runs all of it from

Behind the site

Weddings are booked a year out, so the studio needed to keep the site current without coming back to us. Everything a season changes, they change themselves: enquiries, the featured rail and the full stories grid, the headlines and hero images on home, about and contact, the gallery cells, the team roster, and the questions that appear on the contact page.

The outcome

The work arrives the way it was made — at full size and in its own time — and the studio keeps the site moving between weddings on its own.