After seeing a very cool place name idea at the Confetti store in London, we bought the stuff needed to pull this off and relegated, nay, promoted, the regular name cards I had already made to escort card status!
We bought two kinds of boxes - a regular sized purple box and a smaller white box. The idea - stolen from Confetti (O_O) was to stack the white box on top of the purple box and tie them together with a printed name tag...
The boxes that we bought from Confetti were flat packed, but very easy to assemble - I sat there one evening folding and putting them altogether whilst watching the TV. Before I knew it I was done!
I looked back at my inspiration photo and didn't like the single ribbon holding the name tag - I thought they looked insecure like that, and if picked up would slip and slid apart. So I tied the ribbon as though I was tying up a parcel...
All secure!!
They looked fantastic all lined up together - no photo of the 80 I made I'm afraid, but here are 6...
Before assembling and tying together of boxes, I had a brainwave to fill the boxes with "something" to give them a bit of weight, and double up as [another] favour... the men wouldn't be left out this time!
So, in the bottom box I placed some scrunched up tissue paper and 2 purple foil covered chocolate hearts...
and in the smaller box, I put a pack of mini Love Heart sweets...
So two for the price of one - placenames and favours!
TTFN xx
I knew right from the start that I wanted to have names for tables as opposed to numbers. I thought this would be a good place to inject something that means something to us as a couple, and as we're having a relatively small amount of tables, I don't think there will be too much confusion when guests are looking out for their table. I also think numbers are boring and remind me of being in a restaurant (ﾟoﾟ)
We sat down one evening and brainstormed table name ideas...
- fruit
- flowers
- the word "love" in different languages
- colours
not many, granted, but then I thought, why not bands/artists that we have seen together live in concert (･_･?)
H2b had never been to a music concert. Ever. Until he met me... and we have seen lots of bands/artists together now. Anyone that knows us, KNOWS it's what we do for a good night out, I think in 2008 we had a concert a month! H2b drew the line at coming with me to see NKTOB and Take That though!
I thought it would also be good to have the dates and venues on the table name card - mainly so it wouldn't be like we plucked random artists out of the air, but that they were people we had seen live!
I carried on the black/purple/white colour scheme, and on the reverse of the card we plan on putting the guests names (maybe)
Here are all the table name cards...
Top table will be Darren Hayes, natch, he's my favourite musician ♥ ♥ ♥
The Bridesmaids and their partner's table will be the P!nk table. It is also my Chief Bridesmaid's (my sis) fave musician - she came along with us to see her a few weeks ago. P!nk rawked!
As for the rest of the tables, they are unassigned at the moment...
Britney is yet to be seen - June 7th, but we'll have seen her by the time the wedding rolls round!
TTFN xx
