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!

Very Bad Things

The results of Wednesday's Wedding Poll:

Are/Did you giving/give favors at your wedding?

Yes, we will/did give favors: 62%

No, we aren't/didn't give favors: 23%

In lieu of favors, we will/did donate to a charity: 15%

 

As usual, thanks for participating! We still haven't decided what we're doing, but it was very interesting to see what others have done!

Now on to some mindless Friday fun: Chris' brother has been teasing me for awhile now that I remind him of Cameron Diaz in the movie Very Bad Things. I had never seen the movie so I didn't really know what he meant, so Chris and I watched it a few weeks. Well, I thought the movie was pretty horrible, I wouldn't recommend it, but Cameron Diaz did have some funny, and typical, scenes in it:
"We've got major seating problems"
Cue: Cameron Diaz in Very Bad Things:




Or this one? "Did you bring the tent check?"


Haha, I hope those videos worked for you, they're from a bit of a different site. Of course, I yelled at his brother after watching the movie because I'm not anything like her!! He agreed (sort of) but then pointed out the one scene that he could really see me doing the same exact thing:

That's her with tons of little toy tables and chairs with names on them figuring out her seating chart!! Hahahaha Ok, I'll give him this one...I actually think this is such a cute idea and if it wouldn't be so "non" cost effective to go buy 200+ little toy chairs with tables I would so do this! Which leads me to think....how will I figure out seating? The good old paper plate with post-its?

How did/will you figure out your seating chart?
Happy FRIDAY!