Wedding Blog

As soon as Mr. Taffy and I settled in after our minimoon, I came down with a nasty case of strep throat. Getting doctor’s orders to sleep in separate beds is not what this newlywed wanted to hear! At least I didn’t get sick before the wedding. I’m halfway through my antibiotics, and ready to post more projects!

I really wanted to blog about our seating cards before the big day, but things were just too crazy. For most of my planning, I had been scheming about ways to include the blue ribbon that I would be wearing on our wedding day into other projects. I was heavily inspired by Mrs. Avocado’s awesome color coded button escort cards, and decided to use ribbon for ours, continuing our circle / dot theme. If we didn’t have some type of coding system for our cards, we would have had to letter the back of each card to let the servers know where to place the entrees. After choosing our three colors for our food choices and clearing them with the venue, we made these:

Don’t mind my Photoshop name hacking! The light blue satin ribbon shown above was for the vegetarian entree. I was originally going to recycle the extra length hemmed off of the bridesmaid dresses for this project. Once I picked up the fabric remnants, it made much more sense to find a matching blue ribbon in the correct width. The hem scraps were very badly frayed, and there wasn’t as much fabric as I thought there would be! Using a ribbon in the right width also made the Xyron process of making these cards easier.

We chose black for our chicken entree, which ended up being the majority:

The blue ribbon that I would be wearing went to the salmon entree cards. The color didn’t photograph very well in our dark house, so I took some outside. They are way bright, but better than the others!

I don’t have to cross this last name out, as it our photographer’s card.

Here is a look at the inside:

You may notice that the table number is missing. We wanted a completely modular seating card system! I knew these escort cards would take a while to make, so we left the table number blank and made “number confetti” to place on the cards a few days before the wedding, when there would be no chance of last minute seating changes. We used the same 1″ hole punch to create these:

They remind me of bingo chips! We simply printed out pages with all of our numbers, cut them into strips, and punched them all out. It didn’t take long, and it only took us about a half an hour to place the numbers onto the cards a few days before the wedding. We put adhesive photo squares on the back the day we made them to save time. We had around 170 of these little numbers. Taffette of honor Lexie had a wonderful idea to store them in an ice cube tray, which would keep them organized until we needed them again!

I liked that the seating cards were very simple, with a single circle. There were many other design elements on the table, and I worried that the cards would seem to busy if we would have done a more complicated design. They also looked very fun all lined up, especially since the colors were very random once they were in alphabetical order. The ribbon was a nice sensory detail; colored paper would work just as well and would probably photograph better, but they felt very nice to the touch, and complemented the satin around the centerpiece vases.

Here is a sneak peak of Mr. Taffy’s seating card during the reception. I had my camera with me at the table and just couldn’t resist!

Let me know if you would like a tutorial on these!