So after I nailed down my vision, a vintage-juxtaposed with modern-simple-school-themed reception (hmm when do I have "too much" theme going on?), I began looking for vintage-y decor and designing my own paper goods. Everything had a simple, clean look.
So, let me show and explain all of our reception details. Ready?
This was our guest sign in table. I made these programs on my computer and printed them out on my printer. Fancy, I know.
Instead of a regular guest book, I made an address book box (from a recipe card box) for people to make their own address card. This has come in so handy for the holidays! We have EVERYONE'S complete info now!
This was for our candy bar which was open for the last two hours of the reception. People filled these glassine bags with candy and I printed a little label for them to seal up their bag.
Here are some shots of the tables before dinner service began. The flowers were DIY. Mr. Lace and I chose which flowers we wanted to use from the Flower Mart and sat down to make a mock up with Mr. Lace's aunt. These consisted of three mason jars - a small, medium and large - and various white and green flowers. We added votives with tealights too.
I made up little pop quiz cards. Our emcees were awesome and ran a little pop quiz game for our guests. The winners took home the centerpieces. The table letters went better with our school names than numbers. I spray painted chipboard with chalkboard paint and wrote letters with white paint markers.
I also made these little Fun and Adventure books. Inside, guests were able to fill out a little suggestion for something to do together in our married lives (where to go for dessert, dinner, vacation, etc.) and to stick their photobooth photos.
Since Mr. Lace and I were at the head table, I made this little sign for us.
Cocktails were going to be upstairs. Here were our escort cards. At first, I didn't want to do escort cards to save myself some time, but because we had three different entree options, each guest had to have something indicating their meal choice.
So, I went from no escort cards to 220 escort cards. You'd think I'd make it easy on myself, but no. I printed each name, cut it on my paper cutter, glued it onto the craft paper, punched a decorative edge on the bottom and stapled a specified ribbon for the three meal choices. Easy peasy!
A quick sign with directions since I'm a teacher. Can you read it?
Last, but not least, here are the favor bags I made for the kiddos attending our wedding. Inside, there was an activity book I made, Mad Libs, pencil and box of crayons.
In the end, it was worth all the trouble of finding decor, making signs and crafting all the different details of the reception. It was actually kind of fun for me even though it took a lot of time and caused me a lot of stress. For those of you in the midst of crafting and styling your event, hang in there, it'll all be worth it in the end when you get to see the photos of all your hard work! This is NOT to say I didn't abandon projects that I didn't absolutely love. I definitely wanted to do too many things and had to cut many unnecessary projects out.
What are your time, energy and effort consuming projects that are driving you nuts?
Missed something?
- We go to the happiest place on Earth.
- I get all dolled up.
- Mr. Lace and I get a peep of each other.
- We had awesome music.
- We took photos.
- We get married!
- We write. We fight. We say our vows.
- Big surprise...I cry.
- We are photo crazed.
- Say cheese!
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