Favors

We rented a photo booth from Shutter Booth Boston for our reception and it was a hit. Everyone enjoyed it and it was so much fun!

At each place setting, we had these frames and inserts thanking our guests and reminding them to use the photo booth as much as they'd like throughout the night!


Once they took their pictures, 2 strips of the photos printed out -- one for us, to be put in a scrapbook along with a message from the people in the photo -- and, one for them, to be put inside their frame and take home as a favor!

They are such a great idea! I know people said photo booths are "too popular" and "every wedding has one" but honestly, our guests weren't at every other wedding! And everyone said how much they enjoyed it and thought the idea was "unique"!

...with all my bridesmaids :)

Tables.

After guests found their escort card telling them which table number they were sitting at they walked into the ballroom to find their table. On the table we had both the wooden plaque on an easel stand and a black frame with the same picture of us holding the plaque (except in a 4x6 frame) -- hopefully no one was confused!

Here are the frames:


Originally, they were all light wood (from Michaels, $1 each) and I spray painted them black. Then I covered them in mod podge and dipped (completely covering) them in black sparkles. After the sparkles kept falling off so I sprayed them with a sealant covering to keep the sparkles on.


This isn't the best angle of the sparkly frame (hopefully the professional pictures will capture it differently) but you get the idea? :)

Here's another one:


:)

Escort Cards

A while back, I told you all about our table numbers:


And how we took pictures with them in Maine (where we got engaged!):


And I told you about these rubber stamps from Paper Source (because our venue told us it was a good idea to remind guests of their food choice):


And I also bought a "You are seated at" stamp and numbers (well, quite honestly -- my mom bought them)...

But this is how "we" put them together. And I say "we" because my mom actually did this for me. It was overwhelming haha.

So here we go!

These are the insides of the escort cards. They are tent cards... so the top part says "You are seated at" with the correct number and in the picture on the bottom we're holding the table number that corresponds with where they're sitting! (I printed wallet-sized photos).

Here are the opposite sides of the tent cards, so what you see is the front of the card (on top but upside down) which says the guest's name and the bottom of the card with the stamp of their (plus their date's) preferred food choice(s)!

And here are some pictures of the cards all set up during cocktail hour.

:)

Wedding Cake

I really loved our wedding cake. It kind of speaks for itself but each layer was a different flavor: strawberry grand marnier, chocolate with Oreo cookie mousse, red velvet, and chocolate with chocolate mousse.

We chose basic roses (mainly because of the cost...) but it really was gorgeous!


Our cake forks are the "Mr. & Mrs." forks I got as a gift at my shower! They are from Etsy.


We never bought a cake knife & server -- we just used the venue's.

We asked that the entire cake be cut up and displayed so that guests could have their choice of which flavor they wanted rather than be passed out from the kitchen. So, the DJ made an announcement letting everyone know where it was -- but we still had SO MUCH left over. Boxes & boxes!

We did freeze the topper and I guess we'll see how it tastes in a year! :)


P.S. - We leave for our Honeymoon on Sunday!

Our entrance.

We entered our reception to the Lion King's theme song :) and we were wearing the sunglasses we gave our wedding party as part of their gifts:


After I passed my flowers along, we began our first dance:


The song was "I love you because" by Johnny Cash:



And you know what? Remember those dance classes we spent our time and money on?? Well, we didn't use the lessons at all. But it's okay because we had fun and don't regret the time or money spent. But we decided right before our entrance that we would just move around and do a couple twirls -- and it worked out just perfectly. Honestly... my dress was too fluffy to dance like we practiced in class. We didn't really take that into consideration. So if you're taking classes make sure you think about "your look".

After our dance we went right to our sweet heart table -- notice our LOVE banner?



I think my favorite part of our table besides the love banner was that we used our toasting flutes from our wedding china! I loved seeing it on the table!

:)