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Mr. Spider’s nickname for me is “little apple” (xiao ping gua) in chinese. I am however, allergic to apples. It’s like rain on your wedding day… I know. As a tribute to well, myself haha, we tried to incorporate apples into our wedding day. My favorite apple delight were our centerpieces.
We hand delivered two cases to our florist two days before the wedding and I heard he was eating apples for weeks. That tidbit didn’t sit too well with me considering GRAPES mysteriously appeared in our centerpieces. I thought we didn’t bring him enough. Turns out he was saving them as afternoon snacks? Despite them (the grapes), I really loved how our flowers came out.
My second favorite delight were our place cards. A while back, I posted about this awesome website and the owner contacted me and as a thank you offered to sell me the Perfect Pair salt and pepper shakers and apple candles at wholesale price. She also threw in a 5% discount. In return, I shouted her website from the mountain tops.
After all the shouting, I scoured the earth for something unique to arrange my apple candle place cards. Many a platter/basket/box was bought and returned until I finally found two rectangle wicker baskets from Rag Shop aka the only craft store this side of upstate New York (and Jersey). I picked up a pack of neon green paper from Staples, spent one wild and crazy hour shredding the paper and created this:
Then I designed my own leaf shape using Adobe Illustrator:
(feel free to borrow this!)
I typed out all our guest names and printed as many as I could fit onto green cardstock. Then using manicure scissors, cut each leaf out. I would not let anyone help me do this as no one passed my precision cutting test. I did however, allow Mr. Spider to take the candles out of their boxes and my mom to curl the leaves with a pencil and tack them on the apples using teeny tiny tailor pins I bought for 99 cents a thousand at the aforementioned Rag Shop.
Next, I arranged the apples in alpha order:
And then gently placed them in my baskets:
I carefully triple-Saran-wrapped each basket and attached specifics instructions for my reception hall to put them on my greeting table as is. What did those jerks do? This:
Notice my florist also forgot to place a vase full of apples on my greeting table. Double dagger in the heart. Where are my baskets and shredded paper? UNDER the table.
The darn things were RIGHT at the door to the cocktail hour room (which looked amazing as well) so the daggers hit me really quickly. Just as I looked up from my foiled apples, my friend Scott took this picture of me:
I may be smiling like a happy bride but really I was thinking: what the f did these a**holes do to my damn apples?!?! Look again and you can actually see my teeth grinding.
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Your place cards are adorable!
We used that same neon green paper to do our programs (green is my husband’s fav color & since it wasn’t one of our wedding colors we did it as a tribute to him lol).
It looks like your florist replaced the apples with grapes because the apples would not fit in the base of the vases. But I like how they turned out. Your place cards look great as well.
Random question - Can you eat cooked apples? My DH can’t eat raw apples, but if they are cooked (i.e. apple pie) he can. It’s an odd allergy.
Very funny!
that’s a priceless expression! 
i totally woulda been mad too!
how cute! apple themed. interesting that you chose something you’re allergic to though. i love it. everything looked so pretty. yeah, all that work and specific instructions and they STILL messed it up - not cool.
That would absolutely make me mad too. By any chance are you selling your apples or did guests take them home as favors?
I would be upset too after spending so much time and effort into creating just the perfect effect!! I just hope I stay as poised as you did in that instance — knowing me, I probably would have had a bridezilla moment and had them re-arrange them before any more guests arrived. 
This is the second set of wedding photos I’ve seen today that involved green grapes, and I’m thinking hard about adding them to the candlescape centerpieces. I think I’ll add them to the week-of grocery list and see what happens. I’ll probably forget what I wanted them for.
i’m allergic to most fruits raw but Yes! i can eat them canned or cooked.
our guests took the apple candles home in addition to our salt and pepper shakers. i brought the clear boxes they came in and had them on the side for people to repackage. the paint on the candles were a little sticky.
i wanted to have them rearranged as well but half the apples had already been picked up!
i can laugh about it now but it bothered me for months!
haha, that would have tore me a new one too. and then i would have silently yelled, “BUT I WROTE THEM A NOTE! COULDN’T THEY READ?!” it probably would have bothered me all day too. but you at least held up pretty well.
Sounds like the same allergy. Strawberries and apples are the worst, but he can eat melon. You are the third person we have ever heard of with the allergy, anywhere. (Granted we haven’t sought it out.) We can’t figure out the unifying element in the fruits, so trying a new one is always risky. Anyway, it surprised me to hear of another with this allergy.
Aww…I think it still looked beautiful set up like that nevertheless. Although I would be mad that all my effort of shredding the paper and putting it in the boxes were wasted, all I’d care about on my wedding day is that everything looked pretty.
I love your makeup and the set up of the ballroom btw!
awww you guys make me feel all squishy inside!!! thanks for all the compliments!
HC: i am most allergic to cherries and then peaches, plums, apricots, pears, melons, and apples (i know i’m forgetting some others).
that leaves like grapes, oranges and pineapple- so sad.
my dad is the same way so if he discovers a new no-no fruit, i add it to my list as well. we both get itchy tongues and swollen lips and throat.
Hahahaha. You need to post more, Miss Snail because you are damn funny. Everything looked great, despite the overlooked details.
yes you’re so funny miss snail! 
btw i think the design of your character totally suits you!
Oooh, I would have been so irritated. It looks gorgeous though. I made need a basket at the wedding for me to put my irritants in. Or maybe that’s what the little purse is for. Huh.
I’m allergic to mangoes myself. No other fruit, apparently, just mangoes.
Weird.
i was laughing so hard reading your post! 1st the apples that became snacks for the florist and then the candles taken out of the baskets! I’d have been POed to the max. But everything still looked beautiful and i’m sure nobody even noticed the difference
btw - since i’m asian and my FI isn’t he sometimes refers to me as “dumpling”. not sure that works into wedding decor as well as apples - haha!
didi: i literally just spit water out onto my keyboard imagining a dumpling themed wedding!! hahaha still funny…
oh and my note said : PLACE ON GREETING TABLE EXACTLY AS IS. DO NOT REMOVE APPLES FROM BASKET. THANK YOU.
i thought that would do the trick but then I got really paranoid so I make sure to tell my maitre d’ to remove the saran wrap cuz well you never know man and okay hello!
question: how did did you attach the tag to the apple? I love this idea just trying to figure out hot to attach the tiny tag to the tiny apply?(these are real apples right?)
Thank you! I am having apples at my reception as centerpeices rather than flowers (more environmentally frienldy and we are giving the apples to a food bank afterwards) and have been looking into other ways to use apples. I love your ideas! Thanks.
Miss Greenbean, perhaps you are not completely reading my post haha? these are CANDLES and I explained in my entry that i used tiny tailor pins to pin the paper leaf onto the wax candle. Hope that helps!
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Hi,
Do you have the contact for the person that sold you the candle apples? My wedding theme is apples since by fiance is a doctor and I am a teacher..”an apple a day did not keep this doctor away” the theme fit perfectly. Please let me know. Thanks
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Mrs. Spider, New York
Age and Occupation: 27, Paralegal
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Advisor Research
Engagement Date: December 30, 2005
Wedding Date: October 2006
Venue: Jericho Terrace - Long Island, NY
About Me: My favorite parts of wedding planning are DIY projects and figuring out ways to incorporate old traditions into a modern affair.
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