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The Eggplants’ big project of the weekend: Table numbers!
Over the course of Saturday and Sunday Mr. Eggplant, Papa Eggplant, and I finished the photos for our table numbers! Originally, I wanted to do something meaningful, like naming our tables after restaurants and writing a short paragraph on our favorite menu items. However, I soon realized that we’re having upwards of twenty tables at our first reception and thirty-plus tables at our Chinese banquet reception the day following. I do not have it in me to research thirty-plus restaurants and recall what I liked eating at all of them.
Soooo, I thought it would be neat to at least have some fun with the numbering of the tables. I purchased a piece of blank white foam board from Michael’s for $1.50 and the Eggplants trekked around San Francisco on Saturday with my handy dandy point-and-shoot camera. We took many of the pictures in remote locations (e.g. the area where Mr. Eggplant’s condo is being built) and we didn’t have a photographer with us. We often had to set the camera up on Mr. Eggplant’s spoiler and use the auto timer. Despite not having a shooter, we were able to capture some decent pictures.
On Sunday, the Eggplants plus my pappa took a trip to the city where we’ll be hosting the wedding. Pappa just purchased a new camera so he was excited to have some subjects to practice on and we were happy to pose. It’s MUCH easier to do this project with a third person to help, let me tell ya.
After we gathered all the shots from the weekend, I did some editing on Photoshop by cropping the picture, removing all the color saturation, and lastly adding bright pink numbers with the type tool. I also used the free transform tool to rotate and skew the text so that it looked a bit more proportional to the angle of our foam board in each photo.
My plan is to upload the pictures onto a photo service account like Kodak since they sell 5×7 prints for $0.99 a pop. Then I’ll either place them in painted pink picture frames or table number stands. What do you think?
And lastly, here are a few more of the fruits of our labor. 
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Awesome, awesome, awesome! What a wonderful idea! You are both so photogenic, too! If I was a guest at your wedding, I’d want to keep the picture! So don’t be surprised if you are missing a few at the end of the event! Congrats on a great project, thanks for the inspiration!
Love them!
Walgreens has a online photo service and you can choose which store to pick them up at and they are only 20 some cents!
That is super fun.
Our table numbers were photographs of numbers around us–license plates, the house number, and (when we got sufficiently desperate) even chapter headings of textbooks. I got a real kick out of finding numbers, and let’s just say table seven didn’t mind all the James Bond.
Very clever.
that’s a brilliant idea! =D
Very cute idea!
LOVE IT!!!
Brilliant idea!! Might have to steal…..
I totally wanted to do this too. But FI doens’t like posing for pics too much. Thanks for posting him so that I can show him and maybe inspire him!
What a great idea! so fun and creative and really sets the scene for your reception as fun and personable.
awesome job! the pictures came out great and i love how the pink numbers just POP!! 
for photoshop-impaired folks, i’ve had a couple just print out numbers on cardstock then take the pictures holding up each of the numbers. you just have to make sure that it’s printed on at least 8.5×11 paper to make it visible. it turned out really well!
i really like the foam board idea miss eggplant! you two are so cute together!
I LOVE THIS!!!! I may have to steal this idea…
now that’s what you call innovative!!…well done!
Love, love them! Especially that first pic!
FANTASTIC!!! I so love this. I’m going to recommend it to all my upcoming brides! ; )
Aw, so cute! Something to keep in mind: Walgreens.com will make prints (all different sizes, too) for 12 cents apiece or so. Unless there’s something specific you want from Kodak online, I would shop around. You could definitely do better than .99 each!
Ooh, thanks for the Walgreens tips, guys! I’m totally going to check them out.
This is the most brilliantist idea ever (is that a word? if it isn’t it should be and in the dictionary the definition should be a picture of table number 13)!
I Love this idea! So cute and creative!
so cute!
fyi, one reason i’ve used kodak for prints is that they will print matte whereas places like target only did glossy.
That’s such a cute idea. I’ve never seen anyone do it before.
Sooo cute! Did you know that you can get cash back from kodak gallery? My friend introduced me to this cash back site a while back: Ebates.com. It works! I got a check from them!
That is such a GREAT idea! You guys look like you’re having so much fun, the guests will enjoy looking at the photos (and maybe it’ll get people to mingle because they’ll want to around to the other tables to check out these photos!).
very cute =)
omygosh!! that’s soooo creative!!!
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Mrs. Eggplant, San Francisco
Age and Occupation: 28, Human Resources
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Associate Marketing Manager
Engagement Date: January 19, 2007
Wedding Date: October 20, 2007
Blogging Since: May 31, 2007
Venue: Ceremony at a cement and stained glass cathedral and reception at a boutique hotel ballroom
About Me: I'm a shopping junkie who lives to discover great deals and a craft addict that loves to scrapbook and knit. My profile picture was taken on the day I got engaged which is why my smile is so huge!
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