Stinkerpants

Photobooth Guestbook

July 28, 2008 in Our Wedding • Celebrating Memories • DIY Projects • Drawings

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I had kind of a difficult time deciding what type of guestbook to choose.  We thought about photo mats, polaroid guestbooks, etc. etc.  Nothing seemed quite right.  At the end of the day, Mr. Stinkerpants really wanted a photobooth, so we decided to split the cost on it and get one.  After that, our guestbook decision was an easy one.

Remember my photo album for our professional pictures (I mistyped my post and it was super confusing?  Now maybe you remember, haha)?  That was made for us by one of my old co-workers, who has gone into business making amazing albums.  She also made us our guestbook, which is made to match.  :)

So pretty!!

We didn’t want to pay an extra $300 for the guestbook option through our photobooth company, so we decided to wait for our photo CD after the wedding.  As place holders, I made cards explaining that eventually their photos would be in the album, so people should write in the space next to them.

Here’s a close-up of the card.  It reads, “Your Photo Coming Soon!”  Welcome to our Photo Booth Guestbok!  We’ll be placing your photo booth picture here after the wedding, so please sign next to it!  We would love if you would sign more than just your name!  Tell us a story, give us some advice, draw us a picture…anything!  We want our guestbook to be fun to look at, so please, show us your personality!”  Then I have an arrow pointing to the blank space, saying, “Please sign over here!”

I also had to figure out how to pass out our photo reminder cards.  That’s when I came across the beautiful wedding of knottie futuremrsj34, who had the genius idea to pass out envelopes for people to put their photobooth photos in:

So…I stole her idea and made it colorful.  I added a sticker of a photobooth strip on the side, along with our names and our wedding dates (sorry, I couldn’t get a very good picture of these!):

I slipped our photo reminder cards in each envelope, and people will take them home along with their pictures.  I’ll also have a stack of the cards at our “goodbye table,” which will be right at the exit to the wedding.  Here’s hoping people upload their pictures!

DIY Rehearsal Dinner Invites

July 22, 2008 in Our Wedding • DIY Projects • Pre-Wedding Parties

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Let me tell you a little secret, my friends: it is a very good thing that I got most of my DIY projects finished early on!  There were a few things left to the end, and I have hated those things!  Exhibit A is my rehearsal dinner invite.  I really love the design for these, but they were a lot of work and I only ended up making half of them (half the guests, mostly bridal party, were invited by word-of-mouth).  I have to say, I do think they turned out pretty cute though (patting myself on the back) (haha).

Our rehearsal dinner is at an old-time touristy Chinatown restaurant with karaoke.  I really wanted the invitations to reflect the feel of the dinner.  Here’s what I came up with:

The paper lanterns were folded up and manipulated into an A6 envelope:

Lantern #1:

Lantern #2:

Lantern #3:

How did I do this?  I printed the gold ink using my gocco machine.  The supplies for this project, other than the gocco stuff, were simple:

1) Red scallop card from Paper Source:
note: for some reason they don’t have the red available online.  Here it is in strawberry.

2) Gold tassels from my local Paper Source.

3) 1/8″ hole punch

4) Paper cutter

All I did was cut off the tops and bottoms of the circular cards to shape them like lanterns. Then I punched a hole in the top and a hole on either side or both sides (depending whether it was the left, right or middle lantern).

Giving Thanks

July 9, 2008 in Our Wedding • DIY Projects

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Now that we’ve got gifts rolling in (yay!!!  so exciting!!!), our thank you notes are rolling out.  I am really excited about our thank you notes, so I thought I’d share them with you guys sooner rather than later.

For my business, I started making cards out of plantable paper.  This idea really excites me because it’s good for the environment (the paper is recycled) and it’s pretty (they grow into flowers).  I think these cards are perfect for thank you cards, because our guests can plant them and be reminded of our wedding for years to come.  :)

Here’s the front of the cards:

The note on the inside reads, “this card is embedded with wildflower seeds, and it will grow if you plant it in your garden! To plant the paper, prepare a pot of soil or a small patch of garden. Spread a thin layer of soil onto the paper. Water well and give plenty of sunshine! In 6-8 weeks, you’ll be reminded of how thankful we are to have you in our lives. Thank you! May these flowers bring you years of happiness.”

I hope people actually plant them! If not, the landfills will be a little bit more colorful in 6-8 weeks.

Signage!

July 8, 2008 in Our Wedding • Ceremony • DIY Projects • Drawings

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I tried my hardest to get most of my DIY projects out of the way months ago.  I have to say, I did a pretty good job (pat on the back)!   There were a few things, however, that I simply couldn’t do.  Assembling the favors is one of them (still can’t do that–it’s too hot), and creating signs for various things was another.

Now that the plans are finally coming together, I know what kinds of signs I need.  This weekend, a bunch of my friends came over and we all worked on crafts together.  My main objective was to get some of my signs completed.  I am happy to say that I finished two large sandwich boards for our ceremony:

And the sign for the props basket (I am in love with this sign, and I can’t really explain why:

I also completed some signs for the back of our chairs, but I didn’t take any pictures (they’re kind of boring, but I’m sure you’ll see pictures after the wedding!).  Next on the list for signage?  I need to make two more small sandwich boards for our tables, a small saand one slightly larger one for our guestbook table.  The last time I posted about sandwich boards, some of you asked how I did them.  Now, months later, I am finally going to get around to showing you!  I’ll be on BeeTV tonight at 7pm, California time.  :)

Here’s a couple of more pictures of our craft-a-thon, taken by my lovely friend Li (I had no idea she was such a talented photographer!  Color me impressed!):

Amanda learned how to use a paper cutter!

Sarah’s beautiful programs

Marianne, working on a scrapbook

And me, working quietly on the lettering on one of my signs.

Memory Boxes, Revisited

July 7, 2008 in Our Wedding • Celebrating Memories • DIY Projects • Reception

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Generally speaking, when I make a decision I am pretty good at sticking to it.  The memory boxes, however, were rubbing me the wrong way for some reason.  I just didn’t like the way they looked.

The boxes will sit on the cocktail tables during the cocktail hour so that people can look through them and mingle.  Momma Puff and I decided quite awhile ago to add a pink gauzy table runner to the cocktail tables to avoid having to buy upscale linens for them.  This was a great idea, but when I looked at my memory boxes next to the table runners, I thought, “that looks horrible.”

SO.  I added another DIY project.  I went to Ross and looked for boxes.  When I found some that were sufficiently cheap ($6.99) and heinous, I bought three:

The beautiful flowers and fruits painted onto the boxes were slightly raised because the artists used goopy paint, so I had to do a teensy bit of sanding.  Then I removed all of the hardware using a tiny screwdriver and spray-painted them all black.  I decorated them with ribbon (using zots to keep the ribbon in place) and VOILA! three masterpieces, which I am very satisfied with:

As for what’s inside?  You guys asked me about that during my last post, but I just finished this last night.  In addition to photos, I added for me:  girl scout patches, micro machines (toy cars), legos, and some wooden block toys I had when I was little.  For Mr. Cream Puff, we have a baseball figurine (he used to collect baseball stuff when he was a kid), a matchbox car, legos, and transformers.  I attached a tag to each trinket using tiny ribbon.

Trinket Retrieval was way easier for Mr. CP than it was for me.  His toys were all in a very clean and well-lit basement.  I, on the other hand, had to risk my life to find my childhood treasures.

Here’s the story of how I defied death:

My parents built the house I grew up in in California. Part of their design included a crawl space that you didn’t actually have to crawl into–it was fully lit and totally not scary. We stored all of our extra stuff in there. When my parents moved to Oregon, though, they moved into a house that had–gasp!–an attic. Somehow they managed to get all of our extra stuff, including my childhood treasures, up some rickety pull-down stairs and into the dark, scary place known as the attic. In order to get trinkets for our memory boxes, I had to go into the scary attic, which has always terrified me.

As you can see, I survived (luckily!).

I would also like to note that although Mr. Cream Puff and Momma Puff thought this memory box id