Stinkerpants

The Table!

March 23, 2008 in Wedding (also on Weddingbee) • DIY Projects • Drawings • Favors

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When people ask me what our color scheme is and I tell them, “lots of colors!” they usually give me the same doubtful look. Sometimes the look is followed by a statement like, “usually we recommend that you stick with one or two main colors…” I generally shrug and say, “yeah, that’s okay. I’m not doing that.”

On Friday, Momma Puff and I met with the coordinator through our caterer, Thomas John Events. Dana (our coordinator) is totally awesome. I love her. She has been on maternity leave for the last few months, so I hadn’t seen her since July. Obviously a lot has happened since then. Like, our entire wedding has (more or less) come together. In July, I had no color scheme, no theme, no nothing. So when Dana asked me what our color scheme was and I told her, she gave me that same look that everyone gives me. But when I started pulling out our favor boxes and our table markers, she started to get what I was going for (I think).

The point of our meeting was to figure out our tablescape and rentals. My goal was simple: as cheap as possible.

Originally, I wanted our napkins to look like this (from the knot real wedding of Aristea and Enzo):

But the table was looking kind of crowded with the favor boxes, napkins and place cards. We also had a hard time deciding on a napkin color. I was opposed to anything cream-colored–I thought it looked too bland. My mom thought that there would be too many ribbons with the favor box and the napkins as above. After working with our table, Dana came up with this genius idea:

As you can see, we went with an upscale linen (I blame Mama Puff’s bad influence for that one) and a napkin that matched the ribbon on this favor box. We’re actually going with six different napkin colors, and Dana has generously taken it upon herself to make sure that all the napkins alternate in colors and look totally fantastic on the day of.

Here are our other colors:

The remaining napkin colors with boxes:

I am so excited!! The whole thing is starting to come together! By the end of it, Dana totally got excited. I said, “you gave me a funny look when I told you our color scheme was ‘lots of colors.’” She said, “that’s because it’s never really been done before!” It was really exciting to have her so enthusiastic about the final look. Whoohooo! Things are coming together!

STINKERPANTS GONE WILD!

March 8, 2008 in Wedding (also on Weddingbee) • DIY Projects • Favors

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WHOOHOOO!!!!!

Oh yes, I just had the BEST fun thus far in the wedding planning. I just bought out Rite Aid’s entire supply of mini eggs. What a rush!!

This is my cart, approaching the supply of mini eggs:

Me, clearly high from the wonderful, sugary fumes:

The supply in the back of my car (note how I took the boxes, too!!):

Oh lord, the joy, I kid you not. The total, unadulterated joy.

I made friends with the lady at Rite Aid the other day, when I bought my initial 9 pounds. At first she thought I was nuts, but when I explained what I was doing, she was very helpful. She told me that the mini eggs would not be on sale for long. She also told me that they would likely NOT be getting more in. Which means I must now take a tour of bay area Rite Aids. I am absolutely LOVING this task, I am not going to lie.

34 pounds down, 26 pounds to go. WHOOHOOO!!!!

Commence Work: Project Egg!

February 21, 2008 in Wedding (also on Weddingbee) • DIY Projects • Favors

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Now that it’s Easter-time, I can start working on the favors for our wedding. What does Easter have to do with it, you might ask? Well, my friends, I will tell you.

Our favors are my all-time favorite candy, Cadbury Mini Eggs (not to be confused with the big Cadbury Creme Eggs). On our first date, Mr. Stinkerpants brought me a one-pound bag of these little delicacies because he knew they were my favorite. I look forward to them all year round! Because I am of the opinion that favors need to be edible (I love sweet things and as a guest have no desire to own a heart-shaped bottle-stopper or a silver wedding bell), mini-eggs were a no-brainer.

I bought some gift boxes online last week and got to work last night when I discovered the first bags of mini eggs coming out at our local Safeway. I carefully counted the number of mini eggs that I thought looked good in the box, then calculated how many we would need for 15o boxes (this is a somewhat arbitrary number, as I obviously have no idea how many people will RSVP “yes”). We are going to need over SIXTY POUNDS of mini eggs for these favors! Holy crap!! Shop early, shop often, I say–after all, these babies are only around for a couple of months!

On my exciting discount day at Paper Source, I bought six different colors of satin ribbon for the boxes. I also plan to buy some vellum to make the boxes fancier (the vellum pictured below is a piece of scrap vellum I had lying around–I don’t have the real stuff yet), and close the vellum with a sticker (which I don’t have yet, either–below is just a sample I made). Then I’ll put a little card in to explain the significance of the mini eggs.

BEHOLD! My favors!