Please Find Your Seat… Err Table!
May 27th, 2008 @ 3:05 pm by Mrs. Hydrangea
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!
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13 Responses to “Please Find Your Seat… Err Table!”
may I ask where you got your clip art pictures for the table numbers, they are beautiful!
@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!
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.
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!
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.
Way cute! I love how these turned out!
Gorgeous!
Was your xyron able to do this whole job on one roll of adhesive?
beautiful and oh so crafty
Thanks for the iStockphoto site, I found some clipart-ish stuff that I love! This great looking calligraphy swirl! I love it.
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!
Lovely!!
Aww man, I really really want a xyron!! Everyone has it, I want to play too!! hehe =)