Wedding Blog

As you may recall, I was about a quarter of the way through our programs when I accidentally jammed my sewing machine and production STOPPED. You may also recall that our solution to this problem was to have a cobbler sew the rest of them, but that they were sewn with the wrong color of thread, prompting my major wedding meltdown (even though it really wasn’t that big of a deal).

Well, my friends, I realized this morning that I never showed you the final product! So here they are! This is a programs as they were supposed to be: zig-zag stitch with black thread:

and the inside:

These are the front of the ones done by the cobbler. I knew they would be a straight stitch, but I had asked for black thread. As it turned out, he sewed them with shoe-colored thread. Light brown on the front and dark brown on the back.

Here’s a close-up of the front of the program. Hopefully you can see the grooves/indentations left by the industrial-strength shoe-shop sewing machine:

We knew that was going to happen, and decided that we didn’t care. No one even noticed.

Here’s the back of the programs, with the dark brown thread:

As you can see, they didn’t turn out perfectly. The ones I did are clearly superior (at least in my ever-so-humble opinion, ha ha), but you know what? I wasn’t willing to spend all the time, energy and money to get our sewing machine repaired and sew through another 75 programs. So in the end, all was well!

By the way, I am TOTALLY running out of things to tell you guys about because my professional pictures still aren’t here. Any ideas? Anything I haven’t covered that you’d like to hear about?