But when I started the wedding planning, I promised myself (and the ultra-patient Econo Boy) that I wouldn't attempt anything crazy, like planting and growing 30 wildflower centerpieces or hand-sewing the perfect tablecloths. The thing is, I'm a perfectionist, and I'm also not that artistic (and I kill plants -- not on purpose, but that's another story). Plus, my mom still has my sewing machine in her basement. I knew that if any potential wedding DIY projects turned out less than professional-looking, I would end up crawling under the bed and sobbing and not doing any dissertation work.
But if there's one thing every grad student knows how to do, gosh darn it, it's use Microsoft Word and an injket printer. Introducing: our menu cards.
As a food lover, I always enjoy the menu cards at other peoples' weddings so I can get a head start on drooling over the evening's fare. So I decided to order textured linen card stock samples from LCI Paper and give it a shot. And ... it turned out surprisingly well! We found the perfect wine cork menu card holder at CorkeyCreations on Etsy, and the combination of card stock + MS Word + inkjet turned out really nicely, for around $0.20 per card (not including ink).
Our menu cards! The two-columbines motif was designed by our invitations printer, whom I have chosen not to name here for obvious reasons.This is more a mock-up than a final version. For one thing, I thought I was being really clever by putting the table number at the top and not having to use table number stands, but I'm starting to reconsider -- I'm not sure the numbers will be large or obvious enough. For another, we still haven't done our tasting, so the menu isn't final! The other side of the menu cards will be printed with our wine list (which I haven't shown here because they'll include the names of the people who recommended the wines to us). I'm also going to print drinks menus with our wine list and our beers and liquors on the bars.
Incidentally, CorkeyCreations is a great seller -- she sent me a free sample holder so I could verify that the place card holders we liked would be large enough to hold 5x7 menu cards. When I ordered a full set of 50, they were in the mail within 48 hours. Highly recommended!
7 comments:
Adorable. I think graduate student weddings are my new favorites.
These are great! No more self-deprecation from you, lady.
And grad student weddings are my favourite, too. :) Although according to my original plan, this was going to be a postdoctoral wedding. Whoops.
Cute! I think the numbers will be obvious enough - but maybe you could set the stand on top of something else (I bet there are some books around...) if you want to raise it a bit.
Yay for grad student weddings!
They look great! J thought I was nuts for saving all of my corks over the years and threw them out when we moved. It would have been a great DIY!
I think the table numbers will be noticeable enough. I don't think you need to make another sign.
ooh, grad student weddings! we should start a club.
Thanks for the nice feedback, guys! It turns out that my caterer can rent table number stands on the cheap, so I may go with that option. I could put the number and the columbine motif on a square card ... hmmm ...
Sweet T, we should definitely start a club for grad student weddings. Or a group blog! Instead of tags for "bridal portraits," we'd have tags for things like "feminism" and "marriage equality" and "how to hide the amount of time you're spending on your wedding from your adviser."
hahahaha
You are grad students so you understand what I just wrote without any further explanation *grin*
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