Wedding Blog

For some time now, we have been toying, pun intended, with the idea of somehow incorporating our love of games into our wedding. BUT: I had no real vision for how we could carry out our desire in a classy way.

Then, I don’t know how the ideas started rolling in, but we decided we just had to follow our theme dreams and go with it! (It was probably my idea for Mr. Petunia’s gift that did it). So, we’ve given ourselves the Go! to include some elements of Monopoly into our overall plans. (We didn’t pick World of Warcraft or Nintendo because we couldn’t see an elegant way of doing so. We had even seen the amazing Nintendo cake that has made its rounds around the web, but, Mr. Petunia especially, thought we didn’t want the wedding to turn so kitschy).

The first thing we came up with was to name the tables after properties and style the escort cards after deed cards.

Please understand that I would normally consider myself incapable of any DIY projects, but I gave it a go and here’s what our mock ups look like:

They’re not perfect yet, (maybe a little bland…) but I hope they will be! For one, they’re just printed on good old plain letter sized paper. For another, scissors or trimmers, rulers or guides, I can’t seem to cut a straight line to save my life. I’m also not positive that the scaling is right, in terms of font size and what not. But altogether, I was surprised at how much I liked them!

Plus, Mr. Petunia is really the Photo Shop capable one. These were just done on Word. I’m hoping he will be able to clean them up for us!

Now here are our options:

1. Pick the properties we like and/or that have some meaning. For example, my sister’s family will mostly occupy one table. They lived in Kentucky for a better part of their lives, so they could sit at Kentucky Avenue. We would recreate the original colors of the properties. And, we’d consider avoiding Baltic and Mediterranean, etc. so that no one would feel slighted at sitting in the “cheap” properties. (Though to be honest, people run into that problem with numbers, too: if you’re sitting at table 15, you know you’re not a close friend of the family…).

2. Choose the properties we like but re-create them in our color scheme — pink and green — or simply black & white. Mr. Petunia does not like this idea. He says it’s absolutely necessary for us to recreate the board colors as they are, or no one will get that they’re supposed to be mirroring Monopoly.

3. Choose only the pink and green properties from the board. However, we’re expecting to have about 10 tables, so we’d need another 4. The railroads would do nicely, as they are black & white.

If we go with option 1, will the escort card table look like a rainbow, since we’d be using all the board’s colors?