Weddingbee Blog

I never really had much of a vision for what I wanted to do with my table cards. I didn’t have any clever ideas about how to arrange them nor any cutesy little seashells or favors to attach to a name card. And try as I might, I never had an “ah ha!” moment where the perfect idea fit into my head. But… they still had to be done… and before I left LA for that matter!

I ventured to my little piece of heaven, PaperSource, on Thursday morning to pick up three sets of placecards (Luxe cream…. like my invites) and also bought myself some pretty pieces of flat paper.

Now, at our reception site, we’re expected to lay out placecards on this table with meal choice clearly indicated on each card.

First task…. NAMES! In some cases, a computer can be your best timesaver, but on Thursday afternoon I was ready to throw my printer off the balcony due to the amount of time it took me to hand feed, reformat (for some reason my custom printer settings would not save for the LIFE of me and I had to reenter them every single time), retype and print each one.

Yet in the end, they turned out beautiful (btw… can I tell you how much I adore the Burgues Script I raved about before?!?) and I was on to the next step.

Now, I’ve seen people use colored dots, stickers, different colored place cards, etc. to indicated meal choice, but none of those options really got me excited, so I decided to use the different colored papers as our food key.

I cut each of the papers into 3.5″ x 0.5″ strips, and attached them to the base of each placecard. (The last paper is scrapbook paper from Michaels) I used the light blue for the Filet, dark blue to indicate Sea Bass, gold for Kid’s meals and the swirly paper for Veggie.

(this was one of my ooopsies….)

So… we’ve got people’s names and meal preferences… what about where they’re sitting?!? Ah… on to the next part of the project….