Mrs. Pumpkin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Blogger Since: April 10, 2007
Age and Occupation: 28, Lawyer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Farmer
Engagement Date: July 14, 2006
Wedding Date: June, 2007
About Me: I love movies, music and I am addicted to TV. When I have some spare time I also love scrapbooking and making personalized greeting cards and above all playing Hide & Seek or Duck, Duck, Goose with my two adorable nieces!
She’s Crafty*
July 4th, 2007 @ 2:07 pm by Mrs. Pumpkin
The majority of weddings that I have attended have all been open seating kinds of events, where guests sat wherever they wanted. So when we were planning our wedding, we decided to kick it up a notch and have assigned seating. This meant that we needed escort cards which in turn lead to an escort card display! I had already pulled this picture out of MS Weddings because of the centerpieces shown on the bottom of the page, so when we decided to do assigned seating, I knew exactly where to look for an escort card display.
I headed to my friendly neighbourhood Michael’s craft store for some supplies,
got together all of the pink and brown ribbon I had in my scrapbook supplies and plugged in the glue gun!
I started by wrapping each board in pink Martha Stewart craft paper and taping the paper to the back so that it was tight across the front.
Then I measured out each ribbon and planned the sequence so that the colours alternated nicely. Once I had each strip of ribbon cut I measured out how far apart the cards needed to be and then I glued the ribbon to the boards with hot glue gun glue.
Several small burns on my fingers later I had this!
The escort cards were made by Melissa Chapman, who did all of our stationery. We just had to write the table names on the inside of each card and slip them beneath the ribbon so that the front side remained out. This is what I ended up with!
It took me about four hours to do three boards for 135 escort cards. The cost of the boards, MS craft paper, and ribbons was about $80. But that may be a bit low since I already had most of the ribbon. If you are having escort cards at your wedding, how will you be displaying them?
*Beastie Boys
13 Responses to “She’s Crafty*”
that’s next on our to-do list… i’ve been looking for ideas, and i like this one!
wow sooo beautiful and such a great idea!
you forgot the credt for the song!
How are they standing up? I have mine propped on book ends right now, but I’d like another solution that’s less ugly.
Hi Manda - the Beastie Boys are credited at the end of the post!
Willa - we just set them up against the wall at the reception. They were supposed to be on easles but because of some mix-ups that you will read about in the next couple of days the easles were unfortunately missed that day. Another option could be plate stands, you can buy cheap wood ones at craft stores and then paint them to match your wedding colours!
Woops! I meant easels, not easles.
you are one crafty lady!!!
Our wedding is going to be sort of rustic, so we’re thinking of using old fashioned clothespins to pin them to twine, that will be strung up somewhere (not sure where yet).
We wrote names on the front of rocks (collected ourselves, of course! I had to bring geology into the wedding somewhere!) and table numbers on the back with paint pens.
I love the ribbon boards - nice job!
I just bought our boards today, wish me luck!
wow… beautiful…
are these tented cards?
