Image by Cornish Wedding Photography
When it came to our table decorations for the UK wedding, the format was pretty simple: recycled bottle for a vase with one purple tulip, a stack of green napkins from IKEA, 20 or so wooden scrabble tiles, and two postcards from us. Another one of our last minute DIY projects, I thought I’d share how we put them together as we thought they turned out pretty neat.
The first postcard was the table name–a California city–on the front, and the answers to five questions–Favorite Spot, Best ___ in Town (often Food), Song to Drive By, Lasting Moments, Why We Remember It–on the back. The head table was ‘Santa Cruz’ and the answers were:
Favourite Spot: The Redwoods (Kresge College)
Best Food in Town: Saturn Café, Walnut St. Café, Zachary’s, Kelly’s Bakery, Pink Godzilla & Asian Rose
Song to Drive By: ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ Journey
Lasting Moments: Slowing dancing in the kitchen to Nina Simone & reading Cecile together on the couch
Why we remember it: We fell in love in Santa Cruz…
It was a lot of fun, just a week or so before the wedding, to remember all the places we’d been together, memories we loved–especially being so far away from the place where so much of that happened. Filling in the answers for ten tables took a few hours and drafts, and I’m actually grateful for that creative time with Alex just before the wedding.
Then, to give the back of the postcard more of a ‘postcard’ feel, we designed stamps! At first, I gathered a photo from each city to act as the printed stamp, but after much fiddling with fuzzy pictures, Alex and I decided to go for continuity and chose one of our favorite engagement pictures to act as the stamp. (You can just see it in the corner of the photo above!)
Once the table name postcards were all tested and printed, we moved on to the extra photo collage postcard I had design a month or so before (using a free collage program called Photoscape). The photo collage postcard came to be as it had been my original idea for the table name design. I was going to take the photo collage I had made and turn it all black and white. Then, the table name would be written in script over the collage in white print, with a message on the back. We did do a few test runs of it, but basically, it was just too BUSY.
So, we took the simpler approach just the city name on the front, and printed out ten smaller postcards of the photo collage to be used as a second postcard table decoration. On the back of those we wrote: ‘So glad you are here!’ (instead of ‘Wishing you were here!’ –get it?!).
And as you might be able to gather from the plethora of glasses and table goodness from the photo below, our guest were happy they were there too…
Photos: First two photos by Cornish Wedding Photography, photo collage personal, final photo by Leslie Taylor.
