Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Wedding Recap: Seating Chart and a Giveaway!

Instead of making individual seating cards, I had a seating chart made by Dear Emma on Etsy. She was so quick to always return all my emails and accommodated my many last minute changes. I want to also note that I sent her my seating chart list on Wednesday the week of our wedding and had this printed up and ready to go by Friday!

I had initially envisioned a very different seating chart: one with bright colors and swirls of green, black, and white. However, when I saw this charted listed on her Etsy site, I felt that besides it being very clean and easy to read, it fit into the whole "Castle" feel of our venue really well, and I quickly decided that this was the chart I wanted for the wedding day.

Dear Emma was so great to work with. She sent me a JPEG of this file on Thursday afternoon, I then put that on a USB and took it to Staples to have printed into a 24X36 poster. I bought a  24X36 black frame from Michaels, framed the poster and dropped it off at our venue. Definitely an easy, stress-free process (other than the fact that I was doing it 2 days before the wedding!)

As far as I know, everyone found their seat just fine with no problems and everyone could easily see this as they entered the reception.
Definitely check out Dear Emma for tons of stationary and printing options for your wedding! Now for the Giveaway! Carrying on the crown theme, I have one set of 4 "Crown Cards" to give away to one lucky reader!
Source
Giveaway Rules:
  • Visit Dear Emma on Etsy and leave me a comment telling me your favorite product from her collection.
To get an extra entry:
1. Follow my blog, and leave me a comment that you are a follower.
1. Tweet the following: "Check out @Lwoodsny Crown Card Giveaway at Saying "I do" http://ow.ly/4DjE" and leave me a separate comment that you tweeted this!


Enter by midnight (EST) on Monday, October 10th, 2011. Winner will be announced on the blog Wednesday, October 12th! Good luck to you all!

18 comments:

Mom said...

I have to say that seating chart was beautiful and impressive. Plus it just made it so easy for everyone to find their seat.You're organizational skills always impress me.

amanda @ twoninenine&ever after said...

Wow that is a GORGEOUS seating chart! I love it! It looks like it suited your wedding so well :)

I'm actually considering getting some of dearemma's vintage table numbers for our wedding, in pearl and lavender :) Can't wait to see how they turn out!

Heather said...

I love your seating chart and her collection! As a wine lover, I of course absolutely adore the custom wine bottle labels!

Kate V said...

As an avid follower of this blog (entry #1) I demand a Mike and Kerry wedding wrap up. After that, I'll probably stop reading. LOLOL.

Kate V said...

Entry #2: I like her vintage table numbers/wine bottle labels.

Honestly, this feature was probably my very favorite thing about your wedding - I'm not even kidding. It was so easy to find my table and as a guest, I really appreciated it. Good work!

Kate V said...

I just tweeted too!!!

Unknown said...

LOVE those Paisley save the date cards in her shop! So pretty!!!

Unknown said...

Loyal follower here!! :)

Unknown said...

I tweeted! @kassarie

Megan said...

I love the seating chart! I would have never thought to do a seating chart that way. You always come up with the coolest ideas to do things. I can't wait to read more recaps!

Karen said...

I love the Chantilly Lace table numbers - the plum and metal colors go perfectly with our color scheme!

Karen said...

And I'm a follower! :)

Saying I do said...

thanks Kate! I'm so happy you liked the seating chart and that it was easy to find your name and table!

Anonymous said...

I like the Wine Bottle Labels!!

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Mandy said...

I like the vintage numbers on wine bottles! so fun!

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Mandy said...

I'm following your blog on GFC as Mandy and Justin.

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Mandy said...

I tweeted -- https://twitter.com/#!/aandj8804/status/122348212672659456

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Unknown said...

I love the Vintage Woodland Table Numbers!

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