Our Day by Design

Time for some of the details from our day! Ive already written about all of the DIY items but here is how everything looked on the day! The ushers welcomed everyone to the church by giving them an order of service . I ended up making too many of them but it was better than not having enough. After the receiving line, the guests were able to look at the table plan to find which table they were sitting at, then there were table names on each table. Once the guests had found their tables, the placecards indicated their seat. The guests favours were placed beside the placecards. All of the kids also got Easter eggs we well as the box of mini eggs & a chocolate bunny that each guest received. We also had the menu's on the tables, which looked just like the order of services. The G & G letters were placed in front of the cake, then there was the little Lego bride and groom on our cake. We had sugar flowers on the top of the cake but since we had a glass cube vase separ...

I wrote about our plan for the table names here and our list of possible names. We narrowed them down and since we only need 10 tables in total, we are using the following: Empire State Building Chrysler Building Guggenheim Museum Statue of Liberty Rockefeller Center Flatiron Building Grand Central Station United Nations Building Trump World Tower Brooklyn Bridge The top table is the Empire State Building and the bridesmaids and ushers are sitting at the Chrysler Building! Since we are having tall flower centrepieces on each table {except for the top table which will have low flowers}, I decided that I didnt want to use the normal table number holders that our venue has. Instead we bought square wooden frames from HobbyCraft that I painted with the purple paint we got for our G&G letters. I completed them all on Saturday and I think they all turned out great. Inside each frame I put the table name on white sparkly paper which was then punched at the top with the Cityscape edge p...