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Mrs. Hydrangea, Dallas Age and Occupation: 26, Administrative Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Network Analyst Engagement Date: June 2007 Wedding Date: September 2008 Blogging Since: January 14, 2008 Venue: Catholic Church and Reception at The W Hotel About Me: Mr. H and I come from very different cultures and backgrounds so I'm excited to plan our wedding with a balance of both traditions. My mom has always been a DIY queen, and I'm just now starting to get into it with a new house and a wedding to plan!
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While we won’t be assigning each guest to a specific seat, we will be assigning guests to specific tables. Because Mr. H and I come from very different families and cultures, we didn’t want his side of the family on one side of the room and mine on the other. We are having a buffet/stationed dinner so assigning a specific seat wasn’t necessary (phew! I know that takes a lot of work)!

I decided that Memorial Day Weekend would also partly become my wedding prep weekend. I got quite a few tasks checked off my list, and the great sales around town definitely helped this. My first task was to make the table numbers. I designed the numbers in Illustrator. Because I think that we will be using 6″ stands, my original idea for 5×7 cards seemed too big, so I shortened them to 5×5. Then, I decided that I wanted them double sided, so I bought some black card stock to attach the numbers to.

After my design was complete, I took the document to Kinko’s because I wanted to be sure that the print quality was better then just my printer at home (plus I am running out of ink and was too lazy to buy a new cartridge). While the cards printed, I used their paper cutter to cut the black cardstock to 5.5×5.5 pieces.

Once they were finished, I cut the table numbers as well in their 5×5 sizes and headed home. I ran all of the table numbers through my Xyron (such a great investment) and within 20 minutes I had 25 table numbers. Since we haven’t even sent out invites or come up with our layout for the room, I made more numbers then necessary just in case.

Here they are in our wedding workroom aka our dining room that we haven’t decorated yet:

Printing was about $6 with tax and the black cardstock was $4 for 8 sheets. Overall, pretty inexpensive for the table numbers. Now I just have to get back on ordering those holders!

13 Responses to “Please Find Your Seat… Err Table!”

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Mrs. Emerald says:

Lovely!!

Aww man, I really really want a xyron!! Everyone has it, I want to play too!! hehe =)

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KateC says:

may I ask where you got your clip art pictures for the table numbers, they are beautiful!

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Miss Jasmine says:

Those are gorgeous! Very classy and elegant.

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Miss Hydrangea says:

@KateC: The clip art is actually a damask image that I bought on istockphoto and then used Illustrator to extract only the pieces of the image that I wanted to use. Hope that helps!

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Emily says:

I know it’s a lot to ask but would you be willing to do a tutorial blog on how to do this in Illustrator? Or forward me to somewhere on the internet? I have Illustrator but can’t figure out for the life of me how to use the thing! These are really lovely.

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KateMW says:

How hard was it to do that with the damask image. I love it! I actually asked you about it on your napkin post and have saved a picture of it on my desktop. But, I’m not good with design programs, nor do I own them. But, I have a friend who could do it in her very minimal spare time with 3 kids and one on the way. Anyway, I’ll have to try and find it. Thanks!

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JangerToBe says:

Beautiful, Miss H! Where are you ordering your stands from? My wedding is, oh, a week from Saturday and I’ve yet to get those. Oopsie.

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KatyStardust says:

Way cute! I love how these turned out!

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Amy H. says:

Gorgeous!

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lucylue says:

Was your xyron able to do this whole job on one roll of adhesive?

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Betsy says:

beautiful and oh so crafty

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KateMW says:

Thanks for the iStockphoto site, I found some clipart-ish stuff that I love! This great looking calligraphy swirl! I love it.

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Mrs. Lovebug says:

Love love the graphic. Very easy to read and totally classy. Awesome!


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Mrs. Hydrangea Mrs. Hydrangea, Dallas Age and Occupation: 26, Administrative Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Network Analyst Engagement Date: June 2007 Wedding Date: September 2008 Blogging Since: January 14, 2008 Venue: Catholic Church and Reception at The W Hotel About Me: Mr. H and I come from very different cultures and backgrounds so I'm excited to plan our wedding with a balance of both traditions. My mom has always been a DIY queen, and I'm just now starting to get into it with a new house and a wedding to plan!