Last night, Operation Wine Cork Place cards was a big #FAIL.
Mr. French Toast and I went to our final walk-through at the venue this weekend, and the coordinator gave us a box of used wine corks which could double as our place card holders.
“Enough for mistakes too,” she said, ever so sweetly. And boy, was she right about “mistakes.”
She also gave us a sample of how a proper wine cork place card could look.
front view
side view
back view (notice the quote “Love the one you’re with”?)
bottom view (see the smoothness of the bottom?)
This was a project that naturally fell on Mr. French Toast’s lap, because there was no way I could get close to using a saw (I have butterfingers!). Before Mr. French Toast started, I warned him with the following tips from Miss Elephant and Mrs. Cheeseburger.
Mr. French Toast so brilliantly came up with an idea to push the wine corks through a PVC pipe while cutting through the pipe. We came to realize that the wine corks were so light that they rotated as the drill was going through them, resulting in a spiral effect.
He then attempted with the proven-to-not-be-successful X-Acto knife. As soft as a wine cork looks and feels, it was very difficult to cut into the cork.
At this point we’ve exhausted all “safe” options. There’s always the miter saw, but Mr. French Toast said he prefers to have a finger intact for the wedding ring.
Our coordinator at the Palm Event Center also suggested that we could hot glue a penny on the bottom of the cork, which wouldn’t look as clean but at least there would be no blood involved.
Our cork masterpiece!
There is no #WINNING here with the cork screws. Tell me, hive, any ideas on how this process could be made easier?
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