here are all our handmade details + decorations from our reception:
photos by leah maria photography
our candy bar!! my auntie diane lent us 10 of her large, antique jars from her collection to use for our candy bar and i LOVE them!! they were perfect!
i designed and cut out, and my good friend amanda put together the banner/bunting. it says "how sweet it is;" you could see it a lot better once it was dark out.
one of our themes for the whole place was painted frames with chalkboard paint on the inside. my cousins molly and sara did all the writing on these!!
i ordered printed candy bags from LostBridgeDesigns via etsy with our names, date and a little thank you message on them. i loved these bags!!
each candy jar had a mini chalkboard tag on it indicating what was in the jar and they were tied on with ribbon. my brother cut these out of wood, al drilled the mini holes in them, and i painted them with the chalkboard paint. they were super easy and so cute!
candy bar info: we had 10 kinds of candy: plain m&ms, peanut butter m&ms, pretzel m&ms, a laffy taffy mix, a chocolate mix, skittles, gummy bears, dum dum suckers, dry roasted peanuts, and mike & ikes. the majority of the candy was gone when we went to clean up in the morning. we bought 2 big bags from sam's club of each kind except for the huge bag of dum dums and we ended up taking back one bag of the laffy taffy mix. there was half a bag of mike & ikes, half a bag of gummy bears, half a can of peanuts and a bunch of dum dums left over. so we did pretty good and i'd say it was a success!!!
right as you walked in the front door, we had our favor table. our favors were wearable fabric flowers all homemade by me, my momma and a bunch of our family and friends. mom and i hosted a flower making day and lots of people came over to help make flowers for this so we had a wonderful variety of shapes, sizes, styles, etc.
we used some fabric mostly from joann purchased with coupons, but mainly they were made from bed sheets i had purchased (and then washed) from thrift stores for many prior months. the sheets were perfect for this! we then glued alligator clips on the backs so that people could put them in their hair or on their clothing and wear them all night long. my mom also made a bunch of
extra flowers without the clips for decoration. i love love loved seeing the fabric flowers everywhere
and seeing how/where people wore them!
next was our guest book table; this was next to a little cubby in which we hung a fabric background in (pictures to come of this in a later post) to take pictures in front of. my wonderful cousin maren took pictures using my instax wide camera of everyone who attended. maren did a fabulous job of this and very few people got by her into the actual reception part without getting their picture taken!
then, to go along with their instax picture we had index cards for everyone to write their names on
and write whatever else met their fancy on as well. we now have their pictures with their index cards in an album and we love it! it's still so much fun to go through and look at them all!!
my cousin, duawn, cut out a bunch of v's and a's for us on her mat cutter. we then spray painted them our colors and used them for decoration. we placed the larger ones throughout the reception and the smaller ones we used in the center pieces.
next to the candy bar we had a miscellaneous table.
on this table were things like this canvas i made, drawing inspiration from a similar project i saw on pinterest. i added a pair of fabric flowers :) it says "and they lived happily ever after"
we also had a game area with little buckets from the dollar section at target which held dice and a deck of cards. i then painted squares of chalkboard paint on them. portable buckets of fun! :)
we also had glow sticks in jars for when it got dark out.
these were a ton of fun to have!!
we had just a small, intimate ceremony, so since most people wouldn't get to see our programs
we had large frames showing who the bridesmaids and groomsmen were. there was a picture of each (most taken by gina), their names and their relationship to us just as was listed in the programs. these 2 frames were my favorite and are still displayed in our home! :]
our center pieces were made up of the following:
-larger sprayed painted ball jars in our colors
-smaller ball jars filled with lemonheads for the yellow & for a difference in texture
-in the white jars we had the small "v," "+" & "a" on small sticks spray painted silver/gray and a small wooden star on a stick spray painted navy.
-the blue jars had just the screw on portion of the silver top on them and held yellow flowers that i picked out from joanns
-they were then placed on a spray painted frame with chalkboard paint on the inside and had a piece of white chalk laying on each.
-i also rented navy table runners for each large table to put under the frames.
on the small, high top tables we had a small ball jar painted dark blue with the full top on
which was placed on a small light blue painted frame with lemon heads all around it.
our reception was held at oak marsh golf course in oakdale mn.
it was a large room that was sectioned off into 3 areas:
a dancing area, a food/bar area and a table area.
it was perfect for our reception!!
they put up lights for us too!!
this is the food/bar area with the candy bar, misc table and high tops.
we served some appetizers at 9 pm (our reception didn't start until after dinner)
but neither al or i tried any of them... :)
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