a few of the wedding decoration details...

last november i was up in vermont visiting this special friend and her new home. it was then that i saw her very unique wedding 'guest poster' hanging on her wall. it was a beautiful piece of art that her brother had painted and their guests were able to sign- i loved the idea of it being on display rather than sitting on some dusty bookshelf only to be long forgotten. needless to say i needed to have something like this for our wedding. i had a really hard time finding anything i loved, and i don't really have any talented artists like her brother in my back pocket, so i reached out to my trusty etsy...shocking, i know. i started a conversation with once upon a paper and they agreed to make a watercolor pennant banner poster for me that guests could sign. in hindsight i probably would have made it smaller, not realizing that not every single person who attending our wedding would sign it, but think it's adorable nonetheless and will find a good spot on the wall to display it for a while...

side note on the poster- i was so surprised when it showed up in this cardboard tube with loads and loads of postage from romania!...

another one of my favorite details from our wedding was our family wedding photos. not only was it a beautiful display, but i thought it was such a great way to honor our family members and their marriages, especially our grandparents who are either no longer with us or could not attend because of health/age. i made them all black and white so they would be a little more uniform and then purchased a few weathered painted wood frames from jm watts creations (yes, another etsy vendor) to hold them. i had found painted l.o.v.e. letters a while back and thing they look so adorable together on the table...

the other thing on that picture table are our wedding mad libs. i saw some online but decided i could easily make my own and print them on the kraft paper we were using throughout the wedding than to spend a lot of money on them. if you are looking for a good laugh after your wedding then i highly recommend having these at your cocktail hour or reception- some of them were laugh out loud funny- especially the ones people filled out after a few cocktails!. plus, they'll be a fun thing to get out in a decade or two to read again (click on image to make larger)...