saying thanks: it's gotta be cute!

When I was in the conception stage of all of my stationery/paper products for the wedding, I was determined to have a unified theme running through everything--from the invitations to the menus, programs, and even thank you notes!

Just before the wedding, I decided that I didn't want to cut another piece of paper for the rest of my life, so I outsourced my wedding thank you notes.

I almost forgot about them until I unpacked the cuteness that is our (almost) corresponding thank you notes, compliments of target!
Adorable, no?


and pretty close to our invitations, no?


This past week I've been going through the stack of wedding cards and gifts and preparing to write almost 100 thank you notes, and I realized we have no return address labels!

Rather than do it the easy/ugly way (print address text onto Avery labels via Microsoft Word), I decided to check out etsy's selection of address labels, and got totally overwhelmed.

After an hour, and about 25 more 'favorites', I saw it! Etsy seller, lettercdesign has an adorable round address surrounding.--you guessed it--a dandelion! I immediately placed an order for the green one and I can't wait to see what they look like with our names together and our new address!


Cindy has lots of other cute circular address label designs. I was just drooling over this one! Check out her shop!



In the meantime, my hand will busily working on those thank yous!

How shall we seat you?

The other week I was at Aunt Jet's brainstorming about place cards. My first requirement was no tented placecards! This ruled out a plain table with rows displayed, and the ribbon board idea.

Here was some of my original inspiration:

Tags

Mini Logs

Pin Board

Wheat Grass

As we pulled into the driveway after our quick trip to JoAnn's and OfficeMax, i noticed their garbage can filled to overflowing with thin branches from Uncle Jet's apple and pear tree pruning. Hot Dog; an idea! We could cut the branches into small sections, slit the tops and use them to display the placecards!

Aunt Jet had already created a mockup of brown felt on foam, covered in moss...these little sticks will be the perfect addition.

here is Aunt Jet working hard cutting the slits with a paring knife!

and the almost-finished product! (we'll be using a brown satin ribbon-not the organza picture here, and a thicker ivory card stock)

Then, just a few days ago, Jess at Project: 10K Wedding posted about placecard ideas and my idea (which I was thought was totally orginal and groundbreaking, of course!) was on there.

Here is a picture which displays the idea perfectly! ( we probably won't use a centerpiece or florals, just some more votives)

What do you think?