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Envelope Collectives

An editorial portfolio for a wedding photography and film studio in Nepal.

The Envelope about page on a laptop on a wooden desk, the headline beside a long-exposure photograph of a dancer mid-turn.
Client
Envelope Collectives
Year
2025
Role
Development and the studio admin
Services
Development, Enquiry Flow, Studio Admin
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Overview

Envelope film and photograph weddings in Nepal. At Aurora Studios I built their editorial portfolio, the enquiry flow and the admin behind it. The studio runs it themselves.

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 with thumbnail grids, sliders and 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 site that has to hold those pictures at that size, the enquiry flow, and the admin behind it.

The Envelope home page: a full-bleed photograph of a couple looking out over the ocean, with an envelope mark at the foot of the frame.
One frame, three words of navigation, and a mark inviting the scroll.

What the work covered

  • 01The build, responsive from phone to desktop, from the full-bleed opening frame to 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
  • 05The enquiry flow, with email notification to the studio
  • 06The admin the studio runs all of it from
The featured couples on the Envelope home page: four tall cards, each under the couple's own names.
The featured couples: a person first, not a portfolio category.
The Envelope stories page, opening on a quotation and running into a mosaic of frames from each wedding.
Stories: sized to the picture rather than to the grid.
The Envelope gallery: photographs four across, running the full width of the page, with no captions or page numbers.
The gallery, four across and left to run.

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 gallery grid editor in the Envelope admin: a live preview of the gallery beside an inspector for the selected cell and a library of images to place.
The admin's grid editor, with the gallery rearranged by the studio.
The Envelope contact page, headed "Let's make it happen", with the studio's email, phone number and reply times.
Contact: the enquiry lands in the admin and in the studio's inbox.

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.

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The Sahara Ghar home page on a laptop, open on a wooden table between two armchairs.