Weddingbee Blog

Craigs list, that is. Thanks to images like the ones below, I had my heart set on having some sort of antique- or vintage-looking desk or dresser at our reception.

Style Shoot via Style Me Pretty/Photograph by Picotte Weddings

Swoooon! I love furniture outside at weddings!

Via Elizabeth Anne Designs/Photograph by Untamed Heart Photography

We don’t have any nifty vintage rental companies near where we live so I thought I’d try to find a cheap one at a garage sale or on Craigslist. I work every weekend which is when all the garage sales are, so that option was out. I scoured Craigslist for months, and let me tell you, vintage dressers and desks do not come cheap. I found countless gorgeous pieces that would have worked wonderfully, but Mr. B was not having it with the hefty price tags. I thought all hope was lost…or that I was just going to have to go buy one and pretend it cost much less than it did. My persistent stalking of Craigslist finally paid off, however, when I found a posting for a French desk that just said “make offer.” After going back and forth on negotiating price, we finally landed on an agreeable amount of $50.

It is an antique-ish white color & had accents of gold trimming. I liked the gold trim, but I wanted something more colorful like my original inspiration pictures. The picture above is after I painted the knobs a Tiffany blue color. I decided that I didn’t really care for the blue knobs, though so I decided to try something different.

Instead, I repainted the knobs pink & made the trimming blue; I liked the look of it much better so I continued with it…

And Tada! The final product:

I love, love, love it! I’m going to use it for our guest book table and  put cute vases of flowers in the hutch. I’d also love to have flowers coming out of a few drawers.

Via Beyond the Screen Door/ Photograph by Clayton Austin

Anyone else find any wedding steals on Craigslist?