Wedding details - where we put the seating cards.

Finally!!! I finally got the pictures I needed off my dying laptop and can now show some of the projects I and Mareike (and sometimes even Patrick) did for the wedding. I wanted to do this as chronologically as possible (more for my sake than yours - I want to look back on this one day, you know?)

So - here is the first project that I did for our wedding. Now that I think about it, I was working on this pretty much a year ago this month. I did it originally to replace something Mareike took when she moved and liked it so much that I decided to use it in our wedding. I was originally just going to use it as something pretty on the table, but about a week before we got married we still did not have a nice way to show people where they are sitting so this became our seating plan.

I have had this shelf since before we moved from Canada. I painted it with my mom when we still lived there, so I was at the oldest 11 when I did it. It has looked like this ever since:



I am especially fond of the sponge technique

When I first moved to Bremen I sorted this puppy out and put it in our stuff for garage sale. It had been in storage for years, was yellow with sponged on white and really not quite my style. I lacked vision. Needless to say, nobody bought it (shocker!) so it sat in the basement. When Mareike moved out, I needed somewhere to put my keys and things that just always seem to need a ledge to sit on. Mareike had taken her Ikea chalkboard and moved so I had to get creative. I stumbled across this and decided to revamp it. I dusted it off, gave it a wipe down, bought paint and started painting. I didn't sand it cause I didn't have sand paper and I like things done NOW when I decide to do them. So above is what it looked like before. This is what it looked like at the wedding:

Pretty, eh?

I painted it a pale grey-green and covered the back in burlap. I love burlap. I made the little seating cards out of purple card paper that I found at ideeCreativ and wrote on with white pen, the names on the front, the table number on the back. I used round headed brass fasteners to hang the cards on to string that I had hung in the openings by folding down the arms at the back so that the cards could be hooked on. It was a tight squeeze (as you can see by the cards on the table) but I love it.

We have tried not to waste things from the wedding and this would be pretty hard to waste as it was made for my hallway before it was made for the wedding. So here it is now, in all it's messy glory. I think I'm going to try and take off the string now that it's not needed. Then it won't be so messy, you know?

Keeping it real.

So there you go. The first thing I made, not really for the wedding but it served it's purpose well. I love the green with the brown. And I love burlap. And that's all I have to say about that. Except that's not all I have to say about burlap. Plenty more about that to come!

p.s. my friend Chrissi took the 'wedding' picture. Gorgeous. her website is http://www.loeffler-photos.com/ check her out!