In honor of our third wedding anniversary today, I thought I would look back at some of the projects I made for our big day. (This is essentially the blog version of a clips episode.)
The invitations
Our invitation consisted of three cards, all 4.25″ x 5.5″: the invite, a reply post card and a map card.
I’m still proud of the map I did in Adobe Illustrator, which was a whole lot easier than you would think. I found the segment of map I wanted on a map website (Mapquest, Google maps, I forget which one exactly), saved the image and then just traced the important streets and highways.
I also lined the envelopes with wrapping paper cut to fit. I made a template from some cardboard and traced and cut all of them. Tedious work, but if I remember right, I did a bunch of them while watching TV, stuck in a hotel room while I was out of town for work.
The programs
I did small booklet programs with lots of info for waiting guests to read, including a history of the former church where the event was taking place and short bios of the members of the wedding party as well as the requisite standard program stuff.
Yes, I made them all myself and yes, I made too many. Rule of thumb: you do not need one per guest — maybe more like two-thirds the number of guests.
Centerpieces and other table decor
We wrapped glass cylinders in scrapbook papers, all in various shades of green and taped them to the glass with double-stick tape. (Surprisingly, the tape held with the heat of the candles.)
I designed a few different hang tags with our monogram, the date, etc. and tied them on with ribbon.
For favors, my mom and dad made chocolate Hs. Three years later, I’m still surprised they were not mad at me for making them churn out 170+ pieces.
I made a variety of other little signs, table numbers, menus and other things, but the other big crafty craft I did was make a set of trivia cards for each table with questions about Dan and I. I think there were thirtysomething multiple choice questions about our interests, likes and dislikes, etc. Amazingly, I don’t have a photo of them (!), but they were about the size of Trivial Pursuit cards with the questions on one side and the answers on the other.
Most of the photos above were taken by our wedding photographer, Gail Fleming.
