mr & mrs

Photos by Five By Five Photography & Design

Crafting the chair decor for our head table was a simple & inexpensive way to personalize another detail in our wedding. Using card stock, 3x5 note cards, letters printed in our 'wedding font' and twine, this project was put together quickly.

To add some detail to the flags, I measured 1" up from the center of the bottom of each piece of cardstock, then cut a straight line from each corner up to the center mark. For more stability, I affixed plain notecards to the cardstock, and glued the individual letters onto the notecards. Each letter was printed on regular white paper and I left enough space between each letter when printed so that I could cut out an area that was as close to the 3x5 card as possible.

If you look closely on the detail photos, you can see the outline of the printed paper, but from a normal distance in person, this was not noticeable. Having the notecards behind the letters also ensured that the colours in the cardstock didn't show through and the white areas popped out from the cardstock, as the weight of regular paper isn't very thick.

Using a hole punch, I placed two holes on either side of the letter and reinforced the holes from the back. Twine was woven through the openings to connect the letters into our 'mr' & 'mrs', which allowed us to use the signs as props, as well as providing the easy ability to tie them onto the backs of our beautiful cross back chairs.While I would have loved to use these chairs throughout our reception space, we couldn't afford the extra expense, so we went with some lovely fruitwood folding chairs for our guest tables. I'm so glad we splurged on having two for our sweetheart table, and were able to use them during the ceremony as well!

::side note:: trying to sit down while wearing a giant dress with t w o crinolines underneath it, on a smooth cement floor almost caused a catastrophe during our ceremony! Thank goodness my Aunts were right behind us and stopped the chair from sliding during my second attempt, but I spent the first few minutes of our wedding listening to beautiful scripture readings while 1" (literally) of my body was touching the chair! Yay yoga training & good posture for keeping me upright!!

the fateful chair. i thought ahead & the pillow did help to give me some support since i knew i wouldn't be able to reach the back of the chair, but the dress was so huge i could barely sit down at all without the chair sliding!!

doing my very best to stay upright!! also, don't those girls look lovely?! post coming soon on their outfits :)

just before we were first introduced as mr & mrs dobbins!!

I made several other signs similar to these that were used around our reception room, including 'sweets' at our dessert bar, 'cards' on the briefcase we used at our gift table, 'drinks' at the bar and 'december 1 2012' to be used at our photo booth, draped across the burlap backdrop the photographer provided. I love the idea of being able to use the 'december 1' banner to decorate at our anniversary each year!

Photo by Flashtastic Photo Booth

I've already re-used several of the signs to decorate at home and as part of the decor for a friend's wedding. The darling 'sweets' sign just might be seen if you visit the delicious Creative Crumbs in East Nashville for one of her sweet creations!

xoxo
mrs dobbins