Weddingbee Blog

My friend Nancy and I recently attended the “Wedding Day Details” class at Paper Source. It was a lot of fun, and a great marketing tool for the store – after they teach you to use all their cool stuff, they give you 10% off that day, so of course, I ended up buying a couple items (a rounded corner punch and a 1/8 inch punch, in case you were wondering). The class lasted 2 hours, and was broken up into three 35-minute stations, with the extra time used for shopping.

The first station taught us how to make table tents. We made the following 3 tents:

I think all of them are neat in their own way…not sure if we are going to use any of these designs, though. Which one is your favorite?

One of the tools I got to use for the first time is the Xyron!

I had never heard of this crafting tool until I started reading wedding blogs, but it’s a sticker maker – basically it adds adhesive to anything you can slide through it. It’s AWESOME. I’m going to have to get myself one of those!!! We used it to attach adhesive to the wrapping paper on the table tent with the number 5 on it (behind the green band).

The next station we went to was the menus/place cards/programs station. We learned how to make several types of programs. I really like the way the green one came out – we used special “watermark” ink to stamp a subtle design over the writing. Sadly, we ran out of time and I was only able to make one place card – and it didn’t come out that great.

The last station was favor boxes. Again, we ran out of time here, too (are you listening, Paper Source?). We learned how to decorate a pillow box and a Chinese-take-out style box. I really like the way the pillow box came out, and might make those for our wedding (using our color scheme of course… if we ever decide what that is!).

So that’s it! It wasn’t anything too crazy, but it was fun to learn some new techniques and talk “wedding” with other engaged ladies. Oh, and I also won a prize in the raffle! Yep, I won the Summer Magnolia Paper Kit! I’m not sure what I’ll do with them, but they will be very pretty!

Let me know if you think any of the things above are worth recreating for our wedding! I want to hear what your favorites are.