Weddingbee Blog

I loved the way the seating cards turned out, but I needed to figure out how to let people know where they are sitting. As Mr. Lemon reminded me, we can’t let this wedding look too classy and forget about the two silly kids that are at the center of this event! I adored the button placecard idea that Martha popularized, but since I don’t have a button maker (nor did I want to pay the hefty price for them), I went for the same idea with some new materials. My solution: marble beads.

When deciding how to name our tables, Mr. Lemon and I tried to think about a theme that we could both fully embrace and that represented us. As you might know from experience, coming up with 15-20 unique names of anything is difficult, but we finally settled on honoring our favorite getaway destination: Disneyland. We named each of the tables after our favorite rides, but putting that directly on the placecard seemed a bit off.

“Mr. Robert Smith, Tower of Terror” — Yeah… not so much.

That’s where the fun little marbles come in! I found little icons and characters to represent each ride, and using my handy dandy silicon glue (stinky!), a bag of flat floral marbles and my 0.75″ hole punch, I went to work!

I printed and punched out all of the little circles, glued on the marbles and trimmed the final product to get my little icons (great instructions courtesy of notMartha).

(my apologies for the glare… couldn’t get a good photo of them with all the light bouncing off!)

Then, I just used a glue ZOT to attach the respective marble to each of the placecards.

And if people are still a bit confused, they’ll have a hint to the name and the number of the table on the inside of their card.

Total cost for the glossy additions: $5.50 (glass marbles), $3.89 (silicon glue), $5.99 (hole punch) = $15.38

For those of you that aren’t into this much playfulness, you could easily change the pictures to fit your mood. It’d be very easy to print out numbers for each card to add a nice little touch to each card.