stinkerpants design

Hi!  After a four-day hiatus from posting, I’m back!  With photos from our cocktail hour!  I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. And now, back to the wedding.

Because we missed the cocktail hour, I had no idea if people looked through our memory boxes, appreciated our custom napkins or started playing with the photobooth.  Getting those photos back was so fun!  There were a lot of photos of people appreciating my hard-DIY-work.  :)

Guests looking through the memory boxes:

At the guestbook table…as you may recall, I put our photo reminder cards in envelopes for people to store their photobooth photos in.  Here, one of our guests opens an envelope and reads the flickr photo upload instructions.

And a guest appreciates our random facts cocktail napkins (more on that in a second)!!

The memory boxes, closed (note the empty glasses–people were clearly appreciating the signature cocktails):

and open…

Signing the guestbook:

My SIL and one of our groomsmen.  She was clearly quite a good salesperson with the photo reminder cards!

Overall, I think every single one of my DIY projects was worth it (besides maybe the programs: I’m not sure the pain was worth the product in that case!). They were really fun to make, and it was totally gratifying to see people appreciate them.

When I first posted about our Random Fact cocktail napkins on Weddingbee, people wanted to know what all of our facts were!  At the time, I didn’t want to share because I wanted our guests to be surprised.  Now that it’s over (and we’re using the leftover napkins every night with dinner!), I’ll share the facts with you guys.  :)

1. Growing up, Sara happily quit the following activities: Soccer, Violin, Recorder, Art, Golf, and Tennis.
2. Yorkey once walked on 1200° hot coals wearing a kilt.
3. When Sara was in elementary school, she wrote a newsletter for her neighbors called “Neighborhood News” and distributed it exactly 3 times.
4. Yorkey starred in a television commercial for Chabot College…but because he didn’t get the local cable access channel, he’s never seen it.
5. Sara makes $20/year selling advertisements on her website about rats.
6. Yorkey once ran out of gas in the Nevada desert…in his Prius.
7. Yorkey and Sara once convinced themselves that they had bed bugs.  They strapped their box spring to the roof of Yorkey’s car and drove it to the dump…only to realize two days later that it was most likely a mosquito.
8. When Sara was a little kid, her beloved Aunt Maggie gave her a copy of “the Velveteen Rabbit.”  It scared her so much that she threw it in the closet, slammed the door shut, and refused to go anywhere near it.

I had a few people come up to me at the wedding and comment on the random facts.  For example, I grew up in a very small town, and one of our next-door neighbors was my P.E. instructor at school, and also my soccer coach.  When he saw random fact #1, he felt the need to remind me that I had, in fact, once scored a goal in soccer, so I couldn’t have been that bad.  I reminded him that I only scored the goal because everyone was distracted by an injured teammate, and otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten near the ball!

One of my goals for the cocktial hour DIY projects was to include our guests.  Obviously you can only include people in the random facts to a limited extent, but the memory boxes were another story.  We included photos of neighbors from many years ago, old family pictures and dorky photos with friends.  I think people really enjoyed seeing themselves!

Next up?  The reception!