Rockin' Friday Night...

I cut out all my place cards last night. I know I'm a party animal!

There's me holding a Silhouette cutting mat full of lizards. Those are for the guys.

I also cut a bunch of Tinkerbell like silhouettes. I don't mean that there was something wrong with them. Just that, as you know, I invited Mickey Mouse and I'd hate for the Disney corporation to get wind of my use of their fairy and sue me.

I think they came out great. Mike was super thrilled about the lizards. It's nice to fit them in here and there since they were a part of the orginal abandoned concept that he really liked. We even got a compliment on the lizard on the invitation envelope. This seems to be the time in planning for us to add all of our fun little touches.

I plan to hand write them a little at a time as RSVPs come in. Doing it this way will make it a less daunting task and make RSVPs more exciting (as if that were possible). We're going to roll out butcher paper on the kids tables and write their names directly on it, so I just have to do grown ups.

Next up on my DIY agenda is adding names to the bridesmaids shirts, designing a bride shirt (duh! I can't believe I forgot my shirt) and gussing up these:

suggestions more than welcome.

Places, Eveyone!

After making a rough seating chart based on 100% attendence to get some idea of what we need and how the room will look I started thinking about the pretty stuff. I love the centerpieces so much and I don't want anything to detract from them. My orginal idea for place cards was painted rocks.

At this stage of the game it felt short on time for rock collecting and I wasn't about to buy rocks. I also didn't want a bunch of stuff on the table. So I found this idea (thank you, Pinterest friends):

Love it. It's simple, budget friendly and will not clutter up my tables. I perfer to put them on the forks to glasses though. We decided to do one shape for men and one for women.

Girls Get:
Boys Get:

We decided to do a seating chart rather than escort cards. I'm hoping to find a chalkboard and to enlist my mother-in-law's artisitic abilities once again. Our tables are all named after trees. The little kids table is the seedlings and the big kids table is the saplings for example. I just don't want table names sticking out of my centerpieces so I decided to do something like this:

Obviously, instead of suspending lanterns I want to do table names. It would be cool if they were lit somehow though. I suspect Mike may have left over lights from the centerpiece project we may use. Either way it'll be pretty.