Mrs. Cream Puff, San Francisco Bay Area
Age and Occupation: 25, Illustrator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Merchandise Planner
Engagement Date: May 27, 2007
Wedding Date: August, 2008
Blogging Since: February 7, 2008
Venue: Ceremony at Crissy Field and Reception at the Green Room
About Me: I never dreamed about my wedding as a little girl because I was too busy playing in the mud or pretending to be Martha Stewart–but now that it's here, I'm having a fabulous time DIYing everything in sight! We’re planning a very fun multicultural wedding (I'm Jewish and Mr. Cream Puff is Chinese), filled with as many personal details as I can muster.
The Table!
April 23rd, 2008 @ 2:13 pm by Mrs. Cream Puff
When people ask me what our color scheme is and I tell them, “lots of colors!” they usually give me the same doubtful look. Sometimes the look is followed by a statement like, “usually we recommend that you stick with one or two main colors…” I generally shrug and say, “yeah, that’s okay. I’m not doing that.”
On Friday, Momma Puff and I met with the coordinator through our caterer, Thomas John Events. Dana (our coordinator) is totally awesome. I love her. She has been on maternity leave for the last few months, so I hadn’t seen her since July. Obviously a lot has happened since then. Like, our entire wedding has (more or less) come together. In July, I had no color scheme, no theme, no nothing. So when Dana asked me what our color scheme was and I told her, she gave me that same look that everyone gives me. But when I started pulling out our favor boxes and our table markers, she started to get what I was going for (I think).
The point of our meeting was to figure out our tablescape and rentals. My goal was simple: as cheap as possible.
Originally, I wanted our napkins to look like this (from the knot real wedding of Aristea and Enzo):
But the table was looking kind of crowded with the favor boxes, napkins and place cards. We also had a hard time deciding on a napkin color. I was opposed to anything cream-colored–I thought it looked too bland. My mom thought that there would be too many ribbons with the favor box and the napkins as above. After working with our table, Dana came up with this genius idea:
As you can see, we went with an upscale linen (I blame Mama Puff’s bad influence for that one) and a napkin that matched the ribbon on this favor box. We’re actually going with six different napkin colors, and Dana has generously taken it upon herself to make sure that all the napkins alternate in colors and look totally fantastic on the day of.
Here are our other colors:
The remaining napkin colors with boxes:
And the whole table (with obviously too few settings):
I am so excited!! The whole thing is starting to come together! By the end of it, Dana totally got excited. I said, “you gave me a funny look when I told you our color scheme was ‘lots of colors.’” She said, “that’s because it’s never really been done before!” It was really exciting to have her so enthusiastic about the final look. Whoohooo! Things are coming together!
35 Responses to “The Table!”
I got the same looks when I bought many colors of paint for my house; when people saw the final product they gushed (and continue to do so) about it. Kudos to you for sticking to your vision. I think you pulled it off well and that your linen idea was genius! What will you use for a centerpiece, and what color will your cake be? I can’t wait to see it all together!!
very nice!! love all the colors coming together.. =)
I love your colors and what a cool way to lay the napkins across the plate. Your wedding will be very bright with colors which is awesome!
Yay! We’re having lots of colors too =) Hopefully it’ll look as good as yours!
This looks great! Just curious, what is the actual favor?
This is so cool!! You don’t make those table tents/illustrations as your business do you? They’re so cute…
LOVE IT. I wish I could envision things this fabulously!
I can see why people would initially be dubious of six different colours, but you’ve chosen colours that go really well together, and although some of them aren’t that muted, they are more deep and rich rather than ‘bright’.
I think it looks great!
p.s. I also think you’re very brave and/or crazy in giving yourself the pressure of finding SIX of the right colour for everything (bm dresses, napkins, favours, ties etc…) 
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your scheme! Fantabulous!
That is adorable! I love it. It’s’ very fun!
Dude, is that at Classic Party Rentals in Burlingame? That room (the slight corner that I can see) totally looks like it………….Oh, I’m such a freak. I actually know this!
cute cute cute!!
Miss Cream Puff can I ask what color is your tablecloth? I know there is a pattern, but it does not appear to be just white in the picture.
That looks awesome!
this is sooo timely as my FI and I had a rather long conversation yesterday on how he should describe the color pallette to his family.
basically our pallette is “Fall”. inclusive of all colors that come to mind with the season. but his family in particular were struggling with this concept….
until we figured out what is simplest for his family and thats “what color are the bm’s dresses?” all of our bm dresses are chocolate and gold. so for now, thats what he’s telling his family the colors are.
i am certain they will be confused as i pull in other colors with the ushers and gms…but we’ll cross that hurdle when we get to it.
I really like all of your ideas. Have you ever thought about being a wedding/event coordinator?
It all pulled together so beauitfully. I love the alternating colors and how each box matches its napkin.
And of course I love the upgraded linen and the chiavaris will look great!
Miss CP.
I love your colors, your wedding will be so bright and cheery
I can’t wait to see pictures from the actual day!
cute!!! I get the same crazy stares when I say…oh I don’t know… warm colors? Oh and some slate blue, too. black? ok. yeah, we have no color scheme whatsover.
How lovely! I’m inspired by your mulit-color color palette…I’m at two colors right now, but I keep thinking “oooh…but this color would look good, too…and this one!”. Maybe I, too, can make it work if I can show a wee bit of restraint…
It’s so happy looking!
Love love love love love love love.
Love it! I worked for Benjamin Moore helping people with interior design for four years and everyone wanted beige so now I am all about colour. So awesome!
I wanted a multi-colour scheme too but I was finding it difficult to put it in practice. thanks for the tips!!
Wow your tables are going to be absolutely breathtaking! I did pale purple and sage green for my wedding, but I really love your idea! It’s colorful but classy!
I love it……..those beautiful colors and ribbon look so vibrant….the colors come together beautifully!
it looks fantastic. can I come?
I totally get your “lots of colours” theme and I think it’s fabulous
Your table looks great. That colors in the picture with the yellow, cobalt blue, and olive look nice and rich.
Incredible, Miss Cream Puff!! I love how it all turned out!
I’m a fan of all colors, too, and have been less-known to restrict according to “my colors.”
@ErinMarieMack: Thanks! I’m not sure about the centerpiece situation yet…but as for a cake, we’re doing cupcakes. I told the cupcakery that I wanted it to look like a candy store.
@Pengy: I HEART YOU. CAPITAL LETTERS!
@ynichole: they’re Cadbury Mini Eggs.
@jenny: I do, actually! I’m about to head off to work, but I will email you when I get home.
@lou: thank you! I actually didn’t limit myself to six colors…I just said “lots of bright colors” and tried to find bright ribbons. They had six that looked good together at Paper Source, so that’s why I have six ribbons.
@JCM: it IS! You have a good eye! haha!
@Marisa: the table cloth is kind of a stone-white color. I think the swirls are an off-white, kinda? Sorry, that’s not very helpful!
@Lizzie: thank you! I actually did think about that for awhile, but then I realized I wasn’t too wild about giving up all my weekends, because I’d never see Mr. Cream Puff. It sounds really fun, though!!
Thank you so much for all your feedback, you guys!
Yay! Please email miss cp!!
