Weddingbee Blog

Lest you thought I stopped blogging because I didn’t like you guys anymore, I will now offer up a few pitiful excuses for my long absence. It’s the perfect storm, really: we both got uber colds two days post wedding, our internet broke (oh, the boredom!) and then we went back to work. Bummer. And here I am at the end of work week one (and our first week of shooting, so a particular doozy) finally taking a minute to say hi. So *tentative wave* HI!

*Drum roll. I now present project parade. A series of blog posts in which I detail our last minute DIY projects and adventures leading up to the wedding. It’s part procrastinating while we wait for our pro pics, part giving you what I owe you, and part showing off the cuteness. Oh! And it’s an ode to alliteration, too.

Up first? Table Numbers.

Now I’ve seen other brides put a ton of time and effort into creating some unique, awesome, and fabulously original ones, and yet despite the potential for cuteness, table numbers never ranked very high on my DIY list. *Scratches head. Not sure why that is. In fact, they ranked so low, that I completely forgot about them until a few days before the wedding. Oops.

Luckily I had seen this post on Ruffled oh so many months ago and promptly bought a bunch of Tolsby frames from IKEA.

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With just days to go before the wedding, we took a little time out and headed to Wurstkuche for sausage & beer. Best apple/sage veggie sausage ever, BTW. YUM. And as luck would have it, as we paid for our meal and I went to drop a little something in their tip jar, inspiration struck!

And it looked like this:

Later that evening while F Stripes and her ladies worked on our AMAZING music lineup, I spent about a half hour cutting and stamping our table numbers. Simple. Cute. Modern. And easy. I have to admit I was very pleased with the end result despite its simplicity and my procrastination. Or maybe the bridal bliss had already begun to set in….You tell me!

Here they are:

We only had 4 long banquet tables, so hopefully the counting wasn’t overwhelming for our inebriated guests! What about you? Has inspiration struck in any strange (or delicious) places? Are there any last minute projects you’re particularly proud of?