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No Fairy Tale — Description
People gather to witness the marriage of the princess to the prince. Her lover comes, as well, to bid a silent farewell to her before she is lost to him forever. She follows duty, not her heart.

I'm submitting this to *lucias-tears ' Princess With a Secret Contest .
(I'm also giving this to ~Care-Club to gallerify.)

Basically, the idea I had in my mind was: all she sees is him, the lover she can never truly have. So everyone and everything else in that picture is very dark. Mmmm, shadowy ...

Credits!
*lucias-stock , of course: Bride and Background
*Cobweb-stock : Prince
*AilinStock : Lover
*ehtele-stock : Pavilion and Prince's Crown (barely visible)
*mizzd-stock : Spectator
~Valentine-FOV-Stock : Spectator and Spectator
~KarmaStock : Spectator
~chaotic-mimustock : Texture and Texture
~butnotquite : Faerie (in the bottom right corner)

Whew!
Mega thanks to all stock providers and contest hosts!! You rock my world.

Several, several hours with Photoshop. Please full view, but don't look too closely at the shadowy figures ... I figured my cut-out job could be slightly crappy with them because they were going to be shadowy.
I love Gaussian Blur (my shadows) and the Clone Stamp (how I got everyone to look like they were a part of the scenery).
Toil and Trouble : my second submission to Lucia's contest
Light and Dark : my third entry to Lucia's contest ...
My Pet : my fourth entry to Lucia's contest