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Hive, I need help! I can’t decide what we should do for our “getaway!”
I think that bubbles are adorable, but I hate the little plastic containers they come in…don’t ask, just one of those bizarre things that bother me.
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| Via Luster Studios Blog / Photo by Luster Studios |
Bees, it has been WAY too long since I have completed a DIY project. Between starting a new job and the holidays (yes, I realize it has been almost a month since Christmas but I am still recovering from all of the festivities), my craft cabinet went a freakishly long time without being busted into! But no need to worry—the disturbing drought came to an end this past weekend.
In an effort to dip my toes back into the DIY pool instead of cannon-balling, I decided to take on a smaller project that I could likely complete with a quick turn around. The project that fit the bill: table numbers!
During one of my antiquing escapades, I came across vintage flashcards with basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems on them.I knew these were perfect for us because I have a nerdy love for doing basic math in my head, and Mr. D has a nerdy love for giving me math problems to do in my head and seeing how quickly I can do them (you don’t have to tell me, I know we’re cool). When I got home, I finished off my collection with an Etsy purchase of very similar cards.
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| Vintage Flashcards by paintedpony99 on Etsy |
My inspiration board has been the single most important thing for getting my wedding-day vision across to all my vendors, but before joining Weddingbee I had no idea what an inspiration board was or how to make one. I spent hours scrounging around the WWW in search of the perfect pictures to convey my wedding dream. And here she is: My lavender, purple, and gray inspiration board.
1. Invitations by Mrs. Macarons via Weddingbee 2. Bouquet via The French Bouquet / Photo by Candi Coffman Photography 3. Dress via J.Crew 4. Straws via At Home with Kim Vallee / Photo by cindaychae on Flickr 5. Card box by Mrs. Cola via Weddingbee / Photo by Shoot Me Now Photography 6. Cupcakes by Crumbs and Doilies Cupcakes 7. Colors via Pantone 8. Cupcake tower by Pink Cake Box 9. Twine via The Twinery on Etsy
Did you make an inspiration board for your wedding?
One of the pros (or maybe it’s a con—I haven’t decided yet) of a long engagement is having all the time in the world to make a decision. A lot of my ideas have kind of morphed and evolved over time. One of the less important details, but one I can’t stop thinking about right now, is the table numbers.
Image via Muppet Wiki / Oh, and whenever I think about table numbers I think about Count von Count. One table, AH AH AH! Two tables, AH AH AH! Yes, I am five years old.
Before we even chose our venue, I was looking at table numbers and centerpieces.
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At this point I have discussed desserts until I am blue in the face, but there is an important question that remains unanswered: what dishes will our cake be served to our guests on?
You may not have realized that this is an important question, and if you asked me a year ago I myself would not have given a second thought to the topic. But alas, the wedding planning vortex has sucked me in, so here I am writing a post about dessert plates.
Within the giant wedding planning vortex there are many mini vortexes into which brides-to-be can easily get sucked. I will openly admit that I have fallen into many of these including, most recently, the mismatched vintage china vortex. And oh what a glorious vortex it is!
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| Image via Prairie Perch |
After our misadventures in wood burning, Mr. Warbs stepped up to stain the box. We originally ordered the unfinished box online knowing that we would eventually stain it. We went to Home Depot to pick out a nice rustic looking color, a drop cloth and some paint brushes. While the box’s lid was being worked on by BM Tata’s dad, Mr. Warbs went to work on the rest of the box. Staining is pretty easy to do, but if you’re going to stain wood here’s a tip to make it easier on yourself: sand the wood first! It helps the wood absorb the stain better. Totally a foreign concept to me, but apparently everyone’s part of a secret club that knows about things like this!
Anyway, we neglected to do that and it gave Mr. Warbs a bit of trouble to get the wood dark enough. The first couple coats of stain seemed to roll off the wood like water. I think he must have used four or more coats in order to get the box dark enough. When we got the lid back, (which BM Tata’s dad had sanded) it only needed one coat of stain. If we had added another it would have been a completely different color than the rest of the box.
After giving the box a couple of days to dry we were happy with the finished color!
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When I find a great fabric, I want to use it everywhere! I know I have good company…there’s a fabric called Chiang Mai Dragon by Schumacher that took the design blogging world by storm last year. People were finding ways to incorporate the design into everything. Someone even painted an entire wall to mimic the design.
I’m as crazy for the Robert Allen fabric called Vintage Plumes I’m using for wedding projects. Since I don’t think the kind folks at Pippin Hill Farm would be down with painting their space just for me, I’m looking for different ways to bring the pattern and its colors into our wedding. I already created table number frames using the fabric and I decided that our escort card board could showcase a big piece of it. I was inspired by a board I came across while trying to find a template for another project on the Martha Stewart website.
Without a die cutting machine, I went online to find paper I could run through my printer that had perforated tags on it. I found one website that had what I wanted after much searching and placed an order. About a month later, Avery came out with the same product and it’s probably at every office supply store in the country. Oh well. Next, I had to create the board.
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Since getting engaged months ago, I haven’t actually “bought” anything for the wedding. I have paid deposits, but those deposits aren’t unnecessarily taking up space in my apartment. I need things unnecessarily taking space in my apartment! For the sake of this argument and eliminating small stuff from my to-do list, I set upon the quest for the perfect cake topper.
I knew I wanted a figurine cake topper, rather than a monogram or flowers. (When else can you have cute people on top of a cake?) And so began the great interweb search for the great cake topper.
Yes, I am still planning a wedding.
The holiday season zipped on by, and now I am sitting here with UNDER 90 days to go until our wedding. I’m not sure how this happened, and sadly I am still in a stagnant with the detail planning. Everything is in limbo right now. Invitations are sitting in a pile on our desk, the guest list is touched up and ready to get printed onto labels, I have a list a mile long of little incidentals that need to be ordered/created, there is a plan of action for the chalkboard frames, and my first dress fitting is approaching in a few weeks. I am anxiously awaiting some of the fun parts of wedding planning to roll out. But, yet, here I sit in limbo. Limbo is my hell (haha, limbo…hell, get it?). I digress…
Other than that, there are only about 200 things going on at once in our lives. More on all that later. For now I give you the one single task I was able to accomplish in the past few weeks. (Slow, lame bride.)
In between my three actual work days between Christmas and New Year’s, I made a vow to actually get wedding stuff done. I really thought I could kick start my DVR-induced brain into crafting. I quickly remembered why I prefer throwing my money at Etsy instead of doing any actual crafts. On the to-do list was purchasing chalkboard frame-making supplies and a cork board for our guest “book,” which I’ve decided will be a cloth-covered cork board that I’ll have our guests thumb tack messages onto.
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When it comes to fun wedding things, I have somewhat of a wandering eye. As much as I love my table numbers, I was thinking that maybe I wanted to add some personalization. I’m sure many of you have seen the “through the years” idea for table numbers. I have always loved this, and I started to think that maybe I would like these instead. Here is a mock up of one that I had started on.
Cute, right? Here is the problem.
I stopped being cute around 1996.
Our table numbers for our Vegas reception won’t begin at one. There will be no table two or table three (or table four, although that’s because we will only have three total tables). Instead, we have decided to number our tables with the years that are important to our relationship. We will be having tables 2009, 2010, and 2011.
In order to show our guests which tables are numbered what, we will be having framed photos of ourselves from those years in the middle of our candle centerpieces. Our venue is going to be providing more votive candles and small vases of seasonal flowers. (Again, hooray for restaurant receptions!)
Imagine that I cleaned the vases before taking the photo
Mr. Mole helped me add the years to the relevant photos that will be in the frames through Photoshop. (My skills are so minimal in Photoshop that I needed help to add a text layer. I think I will stick to my day job.) Then, we used the magic of the internet to send them to Walgreens to be printed.
Interestingly enough, all of the photos that we chose were taken on trips that were important to us.
I previously promised that I would share some of the inspiration for our new venue. In fact, when I go back and look, I realized that the only real reception inspiration I’ve shared with you all at ALL was in my post about the wedding brand. Bad blogger.
I mentioned early on that we were big on making the reception our own and avoiding the “I’ve seen that before” syndrome. However, now that we are in a more traditional location (with more weddings under their belt), there are likely to be fewer elements that would be completely “new.” In fact, we know there are guests who have attended other events at the Rittenhouse (weddings, bar mitzvahs, etc).
To be honest, after the drama of the venue change, we realized that in the greater scheme of things, being completely unique just wasn’t that important anymore.
So, we “borrowed”. A lot.
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| Inspiration for having both high and low centerpiecesKristina & Todd’s Rittenhouse wedding - Sophia Negron |
Hi hive. I know I’ve been missing for a while…twenty days to be exact. I’m sorry about that. Really, truly, I will do better. But the holidays were a rough time. I can’t even remember the last time I uploaded the pictures from my camera into my computer. I’ve been keeping up with your activities, commenting here and there as I found a lone free minute at work.
I’ve been up to a lot. I finished the ring bearer pillows (finally). I finished purchasing the gifts for the bridesmaids, and picked out the gifts for the men. We started getting RSVPs back in (and only one family said no, yikes!!). There’s been a lot.
But this post isn’t about any of that. As the title says, it’s about favors. Our favors had to fulfill a number of purposes. 1) They had to fit our theme. 2) They had to fit our color scheme. 3) They had to do double duty because we weren’t having place cards on some table at the entrance to the dining hall. 4) They had to be pretty and/or shiny.
That being said, there was really only one option:
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I have shared my love for ruffled wedding cakes, my admiration for Martha’s cake designs, and my decision (by that I of course mean “our decision” - I love you Mr. D!) to have an ombre wedding cake. Now I think it is time for a little something to top things off! Okay, that was a stretch…I’m talking, of course, about cake toppers!
What will be atop the mountain of frosting at our wedding? This:
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| Personal Photo |
Not only is this is vintage design, it actually is vintage (if you consider the 1970s vintage). And not only is it vintage, it has very personal meaning to me.
Lately I have been drooling over all of the beautiful wedding hangers out there. I don’t know what has come over me, why do I care so much about a hanger? I have no idea, all I know is that I wanted one…bad. At $20-$40 each though, I didn’t want one that bad. I started to toy with the idea of crafting my own. It couldn’t be that hard, could it? Well, let me show you my first few attempts:
Okay, I know that looks bad. Did I just scare you? I will tell you that it does take a few tries. I promise though, that once you get the hang of how the wire bends, it’s smooth sailing. I encourage everyone to not be scared of this project and give it a shot. You can make these beautiful hangers for less than $5. So here we go.
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