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G! What’s that spell? Wedding-table letters!

In an effort to get some more menial projects out of the way while I have some desire and patience left, I decided to dedicate some time recently to making table numbers. First, I had to make the all-important decision of what they should be. There are so many creative, fun, and gorgeous ideas out there it can be hard to choose.

For example, the customary number can be fun and creative, as evidenced by Mrs. Lovebug:

Image via Mrs. Lovebug

Or how about the gorgeous artistic approach taken by Mrs. Cowboy Boot?

Image by Tec Petaja via Weddingbee (Wouldn’t this be perfect for my icon?!)

Then I saw this and I got to thinking. Which is usually frightening.

Lizartistry via Etsy

I thought, I have a dad who has tools. I also have a fiance who likes to use those tools to make things. I need table numbers. (You’re smart—you know where this is going.) I recruited Mr. Pony to make us some table numbers. Instead of numbers, however, we chose letters.

We chose letters for a couple of reasons.

1. Your wedding guests will feel less like losers sitting at a table P than a table 16.
2. There’s less stuff to cut out. (Unless you’re like me and you can’t or don’t want to decide which letters you like best, so you make your fiance cut out all the letters. Oops.)

So we got down to business:

(Side note: I was going to do a whole DIY post, but Mr. P finished these so quickly I didn’t get to take any pictures. And, frankly, they aren’t that involved to require a whole post.)

First, we picked out a font we both liked. (We chose Peake from dafont.)

Next, we resized the letters to the size we wanted them and printed them out. (We decided on about four inches.)

We picked out our wood (the cheapest 2 x 6 I could find, which was something like $0.80).

Mr. P taped the letters onto the wood.

Cut cut cut (or saw saw saw, I suppose, with the band saw), aaaaaaaaaaaaaand…

Voila! Instant table letters:

All the letter friends together

Ah, the possibilities! (last two are personal photos)

Aren’t they pretty? I just love them, but…I don’t know know what to do with them now. Which is why I need your help, hive.

How should we decorate these? Paint them all one color? Paint them all our wedding colors? Make them sparkly? Cover them in fabric? Do something else amazing I have yet to think of?

PS: Didn’t Mr. P do a wonderful job? Is P better than16? Which table would you choose to sit at? And seriously, how should we decorate these?