Wedding Recap: Card Box and Gift Table

As you remember, I made our card box out of a gift box we received for our engagement party. My dad helped me cut a slit into the top for cards to be inserted and that was all we had to do! I made a sign that said "Cards" that I placed on a small easel on top of it.

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Then I had a Thank You banner placed in front of the box.

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My "Thank You" Banner was super easy to make. I followed a great tutorial that Jill put on her blog at Strawberry Blonde Bride, that you can find here.

I printed out the letters in word using "Romantiques" Font that I downloaded.

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I bought a Fiskars Circle Cutter from Michaels and got to work cutting out circles around the letters - using one of my mom's cutting mats from her sewing room so I wouldn't cut through anything.

Then I cut even bigger circles out of black paper and glued the circles together. Finally, I glued each circle to a green ribbon.

Here was my mock up of how I wanted the display to look:

And here's how the finished product looked near our sweetheart table!

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Thanks so much to Jill for giving me such a great idea, and for making this such a fun and easy project! This was so easy, I can see myself making many banners like this in the future for various occasions!

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Week Recap

I'm happy to say I was the featured bio of the week on weddingbee this past week. Thanks so much to all of you who pointed that out for me! I was so busy with other stuff I almost missed it!

It was a long week here: We met with the church, we met with our venue (more on that next week), we mailed out our invitations, we recieved our very first RSVP Card (!!), we had a hotel crisis, and we calmed down and learned to deal with the hotel crisis. If there ever was a TGIF...it's today!

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 I'm heading home to Pennsylvania tonight for a MAJOR D-I-Y weekend with my parents. When I'm "home" in PA, I am able to get so much more done because I'm not distracted by needing to clean up, or the dishes in the sink, or laundry or any of that stuff. The list of things I hope to complete this weekend are:

Table Numbers

Menu Cards

Programs

Signature Drink Signs

Bridesmaid gifts

Figure out what I'm doing for my guest book

Create a sample out-of-town-bag
More tissue paper flowers

My mom and sister also plan to get a bunch of stuff together for my shower in 4 weeks!

Plus, my mom's dress is in so she's picking that up tomorrow, I hope to get a good run and/or bike ride in with my dad, see my grandma and catch up with the fam. I am bursting at the seams to start the drive home!

Have a great weekend everyone!