Weddingbee Blog

Momzilla* is insisting that the city’s signage is not clear enough [it’s pretty clear, easy to spot, and it’s off of a major road] and that guests will get lost trying to park.  The parking lot is about a one hundred foot walk to the entrance gate of the estate.  She wanted me to ask my venue to provide parking attendants to direct people to the parking lot and then to the walkway that leads to the estate.  Um, no.  The venue does not include that, nor does it have the manpower to provide an extra two people or so.  And I am not sticking any of our guests with that chore.

So as a compromise, I had a carpenter friend saw up a few 1/4″ thick pieces of masonite and 3/4″ x 1-1/2″ stakes. In order to keep the venue’s lawns intact, I will stick them in those silver pails (99 cents each on clearance at Ikea!) and use dirt and/or some of the river rock to weigh it down and keep the sign upright.

[Please excuse all the boxes of wedding junk in the background.]

I originally told my friend I’d be painting these white, so he made cut and measurement marks all over the wood. However, I’m running out of time and energy to paint them. I may just forget it at this point. I will be printing the text, cutting it out, and using rubber cement to stick them to the signs. Post wedding, I will peel the lettering off, use my handy dandy rubber cement pickup to get any residue off, and then they will be ready for re-use/reselling. Now I just need to dig up a fat, coarse eraser to get those pencil marks off.

*This Momzilla thing is new to me. She was totally [and happily] uninvolved for the past 12 months, but now that we’re a little less than a month out, she is suddenly demanding all sorts of weird things…