Weddingbee Blog

Remember how I wanted to do little memory boxes on the tables, but Mr. Cream Puff and Momma Cream Puff shot me down? Well, I have decided to ignore them. This is a great freaking idea, and I am going to do it anyway. Instead of putting them on the tables, though, we’re going to put them on the standing cocktail tables–and we’re only doing three of them. They will all have different pictures & trinkets inside.

Awhile back, I took some cigar boxes and covered them in colored paper. I’m not 100% sold on them–there are some bubbles in the paper, and it doesn’t really look all that perfect, but I think I’ll probably just let that go and stick with what I’ve got (unless, of course, they end up looking tacky on the colored cocktail table linens we may end up with–then I’ll just get plain wooden boxes and not decorate them). The only people who will probably notice the bubbles in the paper, though, are my buddies at Paper Source!

And here’s one of them, opened:

Once I showed Mr. Cream Puff the final product, he agreed it was a good idea. I definitely think that it’s better to have only three boxes, rather than one on each table.

So far I only have pictures from Mr. Cream Puff’s family. I’m going up to see my parents for a week this weekend, so I’ll be getting our family photos then. I also plan to get a few trinkets from childhood to put in there, too, just to make it more interesting. Also, just a note: these aren’t our original family photos–I made color copies onto photo paper on our printer-scanner-copier. They turned out really well!