Weddingbee

There’s one wedding item that has been surprisingly REALLY difficult to find~ a gold charger that doesn’t cost a fortune. Even more difficult to find than the dress! Sounds silly, I know, but it’s true.We’ll be renting our linens and plates from Alpine Party Rentals in Colorado, and their options for gold chargers are in the typical range for rentals.

Acrylic 13″ gold or silver chargers
Glass with gold trim 13″ charger
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I had been toying with ideas for our table numbers for quite some time and had rested somewhere between letting our pup and kitty handle the task or finding something more stylistically simple. Serving family style platters at dinner will take up a lot of table real estate, so I needed something that wouldn’t use up a lot of space. I wasn’t 100% sold on any particular idea until I discovered these glitter table numbers - they were placed on floral wire and floated above the centerpieces. Pure genius.

Glitter table numbers via glittergoods.

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A while back I was debating what style of escort card we should have. I went with the majority of your suggestions and went the glamour option. Since chandeliers seemed to be a very big part of our theme, I decided to go with something like the left picture below.

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I didn’t take any pictures of my escort cards in progress since I had to finish them rather quickly, But this is one of the only pictures I have of the finished product. I think it’s rather good.

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As some of you may recall, I’m drawing our table number cards to fit in with our bird theme. I haven’t numbered this set yet because I won’t be sure of how many tables we’ll need until we receive our RSVP’s, so some of the drawings that I’m not as fond of will go into a pile of misfit bird drawings that I won’t end up using. I drew the hummingbird at a friend’s house with different lighting than I’m used to, which I hadn’t really considered at the time. It’s much darker and not the same quality as the others, so it’s going to end up in the reject pile since I know I can do better.

Short-tailed Pygmy-tyrant, or as I like to call him, a cute little pudge muffin.

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When I saw this post about house numbers on Once Wed, I messaged Miss GB 2.0 right away. I loved this idea and as luck would have it, so did she. Thank goodness since we are quickly running out of time before the wedding and table numbers were the one thing we hadn’t settled on. House numbers will actually tie in with my Swedish mailbox that will serve as our cardbox!

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Believe it or not, I was never one who had thought too much about my wedding before I had gotten engaged.  Never thought about my e-ring, never thought about my dress, never thought about the theme.  But there was one random thing I did think about prior to getting engaged. Don’t laugh, but that one aspect was what our table names might be! I know, RANDOM, right?! I’d seen personalized tables done at a wedding before and thought it was such a good idea. Whatever our wedding would be like, I knew I wanted our tables names to reveal to our guests a bit about our journey as a couple.

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My ten year old niece has folded 340 cranes so far (!) and in honour of her hard work, we are using her cranes for our escort cards. Here is her bin of cranes. We’ll be using two green patterns for this project.

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For our place cards, we will be designing MOO MiniCards, which, as you may know from Mrs. Onion’s past post, are basically half the size of business cards, but you can have a different image on the back of each card. Images can be uploaded via Flickr (where I upload my pictures) or from your hard drive. 100 cards are $19.99 (plus $5 shipping), which is a pretty darn good deal I do believe. With a simple drag & drop option, you can crop your photos and voila, customized place cards for your guests!

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Miss Toucan’s been a busy busy bird, so I’m lumping some of my paper projects together in one post!

First - Table cards:

Since poor Mr. Toucan hasn’t had very much say in some of the wedding details, so he named all the tables. And wouldn’t you know it - Nintendo characters! The table cards themselves aren’t that exciting - I just printed out pictures of each character and made a little table tent.
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As I mentioned before, Mama Sundae and I decided to make the table runners she’s making look more “finished” with something black around the edges. She tested a few different types of ribbon as well as some bias tape, and the bias tape won out in both look and convenience. I didn’t know anything about this when I started out, so I thought I would pass along some of what I’ve learned!

Our tables are the relatively standard 72″ rounds, which seat 8-10 people. We figured out that in order to get the runners to go almost all of the way to the floor (they’re about 3 inches off the floor on each side) they needed to be 120″ long. We originally thought that we would also be able to pick the width, but looking at the fabric we ordered we quickly realized that to have the pattern centered we had to each runner as wide as the biggest part of the pattern:

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