Weddingbee Blog

This weekend, I worked on some little projects to avoid getting overwhelmed at the last minute before the wedding. I wrapped up my thank you notes for the shower gifts, created some labels for our OOT boxes, updated our water bottle label, continued my photo guest book, worked on our wedding program, chose our ceremony music, made flower pens, stamped place cards and still managed to attend 2 parties, prune my tomato plants, and paint our crown moulding this weekend.

I literally schedule myself to do certain projects. This weekend, the major projects were getting the placecards stamped and making the flower pens. From Michael’s, I picked up some silk flowers ($1.19/each) and floral tape ($2.39/3 rolls). It was super easy. Just trim stem and wrap with floral tape.

I also bought a pack of acid-free, colored, fine point pens from Staples ($7.99) in addition to the flower pens. I set it up here just to see what it would look like. If you have any special instructions on setting up the guestbook or place card table, I suggest taking a photo or including an inspiration photo of how you want it set up. Stick the photo on the box with all your place cards in it, so whoever sets it up will know how to do it.

From Staples, I purchased 67lb cream coverstock by Hammermill ($5.97/250 sheets) for our place cards. From Michael’s I also purchased a gold metallic stamp pad $7 and a gold calligraphy pen $3.57 which worked great! The coverstock took well to the gold metallic ink and dried very quickly, which is great. Previously, I had a bit of a mess with the cheap envelopes I bought from ACMoore and the gold ink for our STDs.

I played around with the place card sizes. After I decided what size I wanted the place card to be, I drew lines with a pencil and stamped them accordingly. Since I didn’t want to draw lines on each sheet of coverstock, I placed another sheet below the lined page and stamped away relative to the top sheet.

I set them all aside to dry.

My workstation. I use a basket to hold all my “stuff” to bring it all up and down from my office to the dining room.

I made a big one for us! 2 more months to go!!!