Weddingbee Blog

Here is my idea for displaying our two digital slideshow photo frames: our venue has 3 (three!!) pianos, which will have to be somewhere in one room or the other during our wedding. They ain’t moving a grand piano downstairs for our wee unofficial party, and while one piano could be tucked away somewhere unobtrusive, three is a lot. Then my brilliant flash of inspiration came: put the two digital frames on top of a piano, surrounded by old family wedding photos in regular photo frames!
I’ve set my mum to gathering photos from her and dad’s families, and Cinnamon Buns’ mum is sourcing most of the ones from his side. I also decided that these photos would need labels so interested guests would know who is whom, and see if they can spot some of the people who are at the wedding. I made mock-ups today out of printer paper and some leftover ribbon. When I print them for realsies I will use card stock and cut them with a ruler and a knife, instead of printer paper and scissors.

I decided to kinda-continue the H <3 P theme we have going by using the same font we used when addressing our envelopes, with the little heart in between the names.

To get a consistent size, I opened up the template for a standard pre-perforated business card sheet, like you can buy in office stores. (Tools >> Labels >> pick an option!) I typed in what I wanted in every other row of cards – I knew I wanted these to be folded so they could stand up by themselves. The blank ‘cards’ will be the back half.

I wanted to print the lines on the page, so I’d know exactly where to cut. It took me a few minutes to figure out where to go to do that, but it turns out that a business card template like this is just a table. I clicked Table >> Draw Table which gave me a little pencil cursor. When I clicked with that on one of the pale grey template lines, it turned black and thus would print. It’s a little hard to see in the screen shot above, but I outlined each of my cards (which is two business cards in the template), making sure not to click on the ‘fold’ line between the blank half and its corresponding printed half.

I wanted to use the ribbon to add colour because (A) I have a crap-ton left over, and (B) our current printer is a black and white laser printer. We still have our old inkjet stuffed in the storage room in case of scanning emergencies, but it seemed like such a hassle to dig it out, and I’d probably have to buy all new ink for it. Printing in black and white and jazzing it up with ribbon sounded so much easier. I’ve got green grosgrain:

Bordered teal organza:

Thin satin green:

And black and white baker’s twine (this doesn’t do anything for adding colour, though):

I asked Cinnamum which choice she liked better, and she said she liked them all, and she liked having the variety together. The obsessive part of my brain wants to come up with a system for who gets what colour (generations? decades? Parents + grandparents vs. aunts & uncles?) but the more rational version is telling me to just let it go. We also decided that we don’t need the full wedding date below, but the year would be fun to have. Ooh, what if even years were teal, and odd years green?

Cinnamum is in charge of frames, she’s really taken this whole idea and run with it. Last time we talked she said she’s found some teal and green scrapbook paper and is using that as mats for the photos in thin black frames.

What would you do with the ribbon? Random? A system?