Wedding Blog

A little SATC love today - Does anyone else totally love
Anthony and Miranda sitting next to eachother? Imagine the snark!

As Mr. Hummingbird and I are keeners, over Christmas break, we started seriously discussing our wedding guestlist and who would be sitting where, provided everyone we invited came (I know this is highly unlikely, especially considering our family and friends are spread out across Canada and…

Up until now, pretty much all the talk about the wedding has been hypothetical. We knew people were going to come and they were going to sit, but we didn’t know who was going to come or where we were going to put them. This became even less clear when it turned out we were no longer getting a free tent (we were originally going…

A little while back, one of my coworkers got me into a one-week-long origami phase. It was during this time that I decided that origami something would have to make an appearance at my wedding.

I first considered the idea of 1000 cranes. However, as you may imagine, the idea of making 1000 origami cranes was not horribly appealing to me. I even did the math..…

In an effort to make it easier on Mr. Kiwi and I, we’re assigning tables but not seats. With a guest list totaling 140 people at the most, we’ll have 15 tables of random numbers from the full ten to a meager 6. It’s funny because we have a few tables that filled up fast, since we knew the combination would work, and was happy…

Although it looks like Mr. Eggplant is diligently studying all the reasons why he’s excited to marry me, he’s really doing our table seating arrangements.

Ok, so I realize that this has the potential for being the most boring post ever, but I felt it was important to share how I organized our tables so that our Day of Event Coordinator could figure out who was supposed to sit where.If you recall, we have two different favors that we are giving out, and they are to go on the place…

Wow, who knew seating 106 people would be so difficult!!

Although we must wait until the RSVPs come in to make our seating chart, I’m looking around for ideas. Ideally, we’ll place their place card at their seat, with a large chart detailing who is seated at which tree. Although there aren’t really any examples of this idea, here are others that I’ve seen.

Scroll Chart, by ScrollInABox. Hehehe. Scroll in a box. That reminds me;…

The majority of weddings that I have attended have all been open seating kinds of events, where guests sat wherever they wanted.  So when we were planning our wedding, we decided to kick it up a notch and have assigned seating. This meant that we needed escort cards which in turn lead to an escort card display! I had already pulled this picture out of…

Yesterday Mr. Kiwi and I were talking about how to name the tables for our wedding, all 15 of them (not including our sweetheart table, which I think should be named “Paradise”). We began naming things off the tops of our heads, almost like coming up with new Weddingbee characters!

We started with different kinds of fruit, and the kiwi would be our table (not my…

In the current issue of Martha Stewart Weddings, these pins featured in the “Good Things” section immediately caught my eye.  They’re a functional and elegant way to have escort cards that do double duty as ice breakers.

Martha’s website was recently updated to include the latest “Good Things” from her MS Weddings Magazine, so check it out. 

So, a lot of people have inquired about just how in the heck I printed on my escort cards…and I’m here to tell you that it’s much easier than you think!

First, you need to consider the program that you’re using to print in. In the best circumstances, you have a design layout program like InDesign or Illustrator. The next best thing is a graphics design…

I loved the way the seating cards turned out, but I needed to figure out how to let people know where they are sitting. As Mr. Lemon reminded me, we can’t let this wedding look too classy and forget about the two silly kids that are at the center of this event! I adored the button placecard idea that Martha popularized, but since I don’t…

I never really had much of a vision for what I wanted to do with my table cards. I didn’t have any clever ideas about how to arrange them nor any cutesy little seashells or favors to attach to a name card. And try as I might, I never had an “ah ha!” moment where the perfect idea fit into my head. But… they still…

I really am not MIA - I have just been super busy getting a few of the last minute projects completed before the wedding. Here are a couple of teaser pics of things I have been working on…

Escort Cards (we will still have placecards at the table) - each guest will get a little envelope with their name on it. Inside will be a picture…