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Our wedding was amazing and I can’t wait to recap everything with you guys. See you in a few days. Yay!!
I’m getting married tomorrow!! I can’t wait!!
Okay like I’ve previously mentioned we decided to go with the photo and number combo for our table numbers. I just couldn’t help myself but the tricky part was trying to figure out how to add the numbers on there. If you’ve been following my journey you must know that I’m a trial and error kind of girl. I first attempted to add the numbers using acrylic paint, then I moved on to playing with the paint program on my pc, followed by going to the store and looking for vinyl numbers, and after much frustration I went back and realized that the individuals before me that had done such a task used Adobe Photoshop. The problem was that I didn’t and still don’t own the program so to get around my little problem I downloaded the FREE 30 days trial.
So, here is what I did for those of you that don’t have time to experiment with it but remember that I’m not a professional and I’ve only had the program for 3 days.
First go to file and open the file where your photo is kept in. Once you click on it the photo should be right in front of you.
Then go to “layer” and add a new layer. Click okay. Then go to the text icon (that’s the one with the capital T on the left hand side). Click where you want to add the number at and play around with the font and size until you get what you want.
To add dimension to our numbers I clicked on the different “styles” on the right hand side. I used the one that made the numbers 3 dimensional.
Once I did that I went into “layer” section and in the “layer style” I added “drop shadow”, “bevel and emboss”, I changed the “color overlay”, and I also changed the “gradient overlay”. After all that is done this is my final product.
In my first attempt I made the numbers orange but thanks to my HBoO help I changed it.
Before:
After:
Here are our table numbers:
I added orange card stock that I had on hand and glued them to a white canvas I had cut down to fit the easels. The photos are 5×7 and I love how they look on the easels. I’m glad we went with the blue ink since it pops out and catches your attention.
Once I finished all the numbers I uploaded them to Costco Photo Center and for $5.99 I had all my table numbers. Oh and for those of you who are wondering I bought the easels at the Art Supply Warehouse for $1. 89 each.
So what do you think of my table numbers?
In my journey to become the Mrs. I have found myself developing more technical skills than I ever thought a bride could use. Like I previously mentioned here I learned how to use illustrator to make my diy map for my invitations. When I first began doing my table numbers I wanted to do something creative with the canvas that I bought from Art Supply Warehouse but after trying different things I decided that it was too time consuming to paint all the numbers by hand.
I decided to go a different route after seeing my fellow blogger August15bride‘s table numbers. How amazing are these?
Or how about Mrs. Tiramisu’s table numbers?
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Are you going to have table numbers? Where did you get your inspiration?
I’m trying to finish up some project before the big day and haven’t had time to blog about anything lately which is terrible since I have so much to share with you guys. I do plan on telling you about my diy centerpieces, my escort cards, my seating chart and final guest list. I hope that in the next couple of weeks I can share more details. Until then I leave you with a couple of photos of our trip to the L.A. Flower District.
Are you DIY your centerpieces? If you are where are you getting your flowers? Have you ever visited the LA Flower District? Do you have any advice to me if you’ve visited the L.A. Flower Distict?
After much arguing back and forth between myself and family members we have a final number.
113 -Total
+2 – Bride and Groom
115 -Grand Total
These are our confirmed guest and the final number we are sticking to.
I’m happy with our number and I hope everyone shows up to our wedding. Now that we have a final number I can move on to our seating chart, escort cards, and table numbers. I plan on sharing more with you as I go along please be patient with me.
Did anyone try to add more people to the rsvp card then the number of people that were invited? How is your final number looking/coming along?
Whenever people ask me what my wedding colors are and I reply blue and orange they automatically think of either the Florida Gators or the Miami Dolphins.
I have nothing against both teams but it surprises me how people can’t picture those colors together.
Our orange is a tad lighter and brighter. Our blue is more like an aqua blue than anything else. I’ve previously shared with you some color Inspiration Boards to show you what I’m talking about.
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This past weekend I went to my cousin’s wedding which spoke about here. I will begin by saying that everything that could have gone wrong did. I will do my best to recap what happened at the wedding last Saturday.
My family and I both arrived at the church at 8:30am along with 2 of the bridesmaids. The groom arrived at 8:45am along with his brothers and his parents. We took pictures outside until we were asked to enter the church.
The church official asked us to go into the church at 8:55am. At 9:00am a limo pulled up and the wedding party began to enter. Five of the groomsmen were there ready to go and only four bridesmaids were present.
The doors closed and the anticipation of seeing the bride began to overtake the church. Everyone had their cameras ready and then the doors closed and never opened (well at least not for a while). The priest waited about 5 minutes and stated that since he had another mass shortly after the one we were attending he had to continue with or without the bride. 20 minutes past by before we heard anything from the bride again meanwhile my poor cousin is standing in the front alongside his parents. The doors flung open and along with her uncle and aunt the bride came down the aisle while the lady that was doing the second reading was taking her place.
The bride rushed to my cousin’s side and the mass continued. 10 minutes later the rest of the bridesmaids, flowergirls, and the bride’s parents entered the church. Everything was great after that until we got to the reception hall.
I will continue my story on a different day about what happened at the reception. The lesson of today’s story is that both my parent’s and my in-laws have been warned about arriving late. The wedding will go on with or without them as long as both my HBoO and I are there.
I love my cousin and wish him and his new bride a happy marriage full of love and joy. I am not telling you their story to make fun of the situation in anyway but simply to point out that things do go wrong. I think we lose sight of what’s important during the wedding planning the most important part isn’t the guestlist or the crazy amounts of signage we will have but that we are marrying the love of our lives. Like I’ve previously said things will go wrong and people will stress you out but what matters is that you committing your lives to each other in front of the world. The next morning after the wedding is all done you will be married and have made vows to each other that you must nurture as much as you have all the details of the wedding.
Good Luck and Happy planning to all of you…
Sweets and Life 