Placecards A La Carte

When thinking of the placecards, we wanted them in our wedding colors and simple yet unique. I found this great butterfly stamp which made things very simple. We began with cutting out stamps of butterflies and saving the background.

I began by buying precut and folded cards and created strips of colors and butterfly cut outs with cardstock. Instead of tossing the outer rim to the butterfly cut outs, i used them as a background.

Then I created small strips with cardstock to be able to create more of a specific design on the premade cards.

Here were the pre-made place cards. They were already pre-folded and ready to bend.



This was the basic set up above. I used the one stip below and different colored butterflies and outlines to make an accent above each guest's name for the escort cards. On the other side are table names, but more on that to come...

How to Make Your Own Sea Glass

For table decorations, John & I envisioned drift wood and sea glass to accompany floral arrangements. The blue and green colors were somewhat representative of the ocean I love and the mountains that hold John's heart. With the large supply of bottles from the winery, we decided to go ahead and try and tumble the glass pieces ourselves. John had a large tumbler at his warehouse, and so we just tossed a whole bunch of bottles in. It was tricky finding blue bottles, but we were able to come across the beautiful blue bottles of water here and there. The pieces were tumbled overnight, but then were covered with a glass silt that John had to wash off. He fashioned a shifter from green chicken wire and used a hose to clean off the pieces that we were after. Alfie liked to help a lot during this process.
Afterwards came the sorting and drying, which involved leaving them out on cookie sheets until they were no longer wet. We just gave them to our wonderful florist who is going to use them along with drift wood we collected at the cabin and our amazing bachelor (ette) party weekend. I can't wait to see the final product.