Weddingbee Blog

About 3 weeks before the wedding, Mr. Hot Wings and I headed back to San Diego to finish our wedding planning and to get married. We started and finished a bunch of projects before the wedding. So, while I wait for some professional pictures to come back, I’ll tell you about these last projects. And trust me, I’m anxious to see those pro pics!

I wanted to do personalized table numbers on the cheap. I gathered my leftover card stock from invitation making and corresponding gold text paper to see what cheap-o table numbers I could come up with. Uh, no. What I meant to say is…I wanted to stay consistent with our color scheme and paper choices, so everything would coordinate with each other (wink wink). But seriously, now. A lot of my DIYing came down to just trying to use up all the materials I had bought and hoarded for the last 22 months.

I used the Annebelle font that I had found for free on dafont.com and printed out SUPER LARGE numbers.

I picked out 30 of my favorite pictures of Mr. Hot Wings and me and had them printed at Costco, then mounted them onto the gold text paper using double-sided tape. Then, I cut them out using that paper cutter you see in the photos.

Cutting the numbers out was as annoying as it sounds. But it looked so nice once we were done.   I had forgotten to bring back my fancy crafting glues, so I settled for a regular Elmer’s glue stick. Guess what? It worked perfectly! Nothing fancy was needed.

I took my card stock and folded it in half. Notice that I had forgotten to pack my bone folder. Recall that I actually live in Boston now. Packing to come back was painful. I do NOT recommend trying to bring back all your crafting supplies for wedding DIYing. I do, however, recommend improvising instead. I just used the side of this permanent marker. It worked just fine.

I used double-sided tape to position the mounted photo onto the cardstock. Make sure to test out your numbers before you tape it all down permanently. I found that some of the numbers take up a lot of space.

Hint: Don’t print solid black numbers like this on linen paper. I used linen because it was what we had laying around and it didn’t take the ink well. I painstakingly went through and darkened them all in using a black permanent marker. You can see the difference between a marked in number and one that hadn’t been marked in in the photo below.

The one on the left is darkened with the pen, and the one on the right is what my parents’ laser printer did on linen cardstock paper.

And, you know I like to make my DIYs play double duty. So, I had our table numbers act as reception programs, too.

*photo by friend Sally (that girl)*

And in action…this is what it looked like, a la my friend Sally. On the right of the picture you can see our other reception program. I started feeling bad that there was only 1 per table, so we made a 2nd one for each table.

I cropped the photo because I’m not ready to reveal our entire table to y’all yet.

How are you personalizing your table numbers?