Entries tagged with “reception” from Prom to Altar
Since I won't be updating Prom to Altar much anymore, here are some links to past posts and websites that might be of interest to someone at some point:
- Professional photos of our wedding day by Paul Grupp and Brenda Topkins, as well as our engagement photos, are here. These aren't the final versions of the photos (we received the final high res versions of these as well as additional photos on DVD), but the majority of our proofs are there. Paul and Brenda also blogged our wedding here.
- You can also go to this set on Flickr to see my photos from the planning process as well as some video snippets from the wedding.
- Our proposal story
- A little about my antique engagement ring
- Our save the dates
- Our invitations
- Some of my favorite wedding blogs
- Getting ready photos
- Pre-ceremony photos
- Riding around in the trolley
- Our Catholic Ceremony photos, and a bit about our decision to have a full Catholic mass
- The ins and outs of our homemade photo booth (a few more details here)
- Little things Part 1: Things we wore, things we carried
- Little things Part 2: Details at the ceremony and a bit at the reception
- Little things Part 3 -- our Craigslist centerpieces, our favors, etc
- The rundown of our ceremony and reception music selections
I never quite got to recapping the reception, so maybe I'll do that at some point. But for now, that's that-- we planned a wedding and prepared for a marriage, our wedding was fun and lovely, and married life is swell! Thanks for following along, I've met some great people through this blog. I hope to see you (well, hear from you) over at It's Loverly!
Continue reading Links and signing off, for now.
The last of the little details and the last post about "stuff": our centerpieces, favors, and a few other bits from around the reception.
Our centerpieces were one of my favorite details, and one of the best budget finds. Someone who had used them in her wedding a year earlier was selling them on Craigslist, and we bought 15 of these trees from her for $15 each. We had 17 tables, so I bought two more similar centerpieces off Ebay for under $5 a piece. We sold 12 centerpieces the day after the wedding (we kept one and each set of parents kept one).
(The venue was supposed to put tealights on the mirrors around the
trees-- somehow this detail fell through the cracks. Oh well.)
We had big plans for our table numbers when we started planning-- we were going to use photos of places that were important to us and name the tables after those significant places in our relationship. We were going to make escort cards using photos that matched the table names... yeah, nice idea, didn't happen. This is one of those projects that kept getting pushed back until the very last minute, and we ended up going simple. We used the swirl design from our invitations (I still haven't shared those here, eh?) and put each number in a different gold-toned frame. Not as cutesy as we'd originally planned, but they did the job.
Our "Head Table" was a family table consisting of us, our parents, Pat's grandmother, and our siblings.
Our wedding party sat with their guests and our friends at tables on either side of us.
Our favors were photo coasters. We've been using coasters like these on our own coffee table since we moved in together. The favor tags are Moo cards that we had made from our favorite engagement photos, with our names and wedding date on the back. We found these coasters at Christmas Tree Shops-- cheaper and better quality than the specific "wedding favor" coasters on The Knot Shop and the like.
The photo inside was one of the four "photo booth" photos that we used on our save the date postcards. The overall design was a reference to our save the dates.
My Italian mom wouldn't let me get away with not having jordan almonds (although I can't say I like them). These were entirely her project, and they came out very cute. The back of the tag explained the tradition of the five almonds.
We framed some of our engagement photos and put them around the reception room. Yeah, we used these photos in a few places, but that's the thing with engagement photos-- you end up with a whole bunch of great photos of the two of you and you really only have use for a couple. We figured we may as well display a handful of them while we could, because we certainly aren't going to plaster the walls of our apartment with pictures of us.
We also put out the book we made of our engagement photos. I don't know if anyone noticed it or looked at it, but it was there. The flower arrangement is the same one from the memorial area at the church- we reused both church arrangements at the reception. That card box was the emergency back up when the cage we were going to use didn't work out. Wouldn't be my top pick, but no one seemed to judge us for it.Alright, so I think that covers most of the "stuff". Next up I'll show you some more photos of the reception and tell you about some of my favorite moments.
On this wet, gray, and cold late October day, it's been nice to relive the wedding a little!
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Photos in this post by Upstate Photographers and Michele.
Continue reading The little things, part 3: Centerpieces, favors, more.
Alright, here are some more photos of a few more details and budget friendly ideas.
Church
The church is beautiful, so we didn't worry about too many additional decorations. My mom made the pew wreathes, which we hung on every other pew up the center aisle. There were two flower arrangements at the church, and that was it.
We created a memorial area in the baptistery of the church-- each guest passed through here on the way in. We had a candle for each of our grandparents who have passed away, and a flower arrangement. We weren't originally planning on having flowers here, but rather than cancel entirely the two corsages that we had already ordered for our grandmothers, we had the flowers made into a small arrangement of roses and hydrangea.
Reception
As I mentioned during planning, our reception was held at The Edison Club, a private country club in Rexford, NY.
Escort cards
The escort cards were set up by the entrance to the cocktail hour on the terrace. We made the cards ourself- stamped and handwritten (no close ups of these, unfortunately). The trays were a few bucks each from Target (and we'll probably be selling three of these).
In the above photo you can sort of see the mercury glass lanterns that we hung along the path to the terrace.
The wedding photos are of our parents and grandparents. We had made little signs identifying each couple and their wedding date, but they never made it to the reception. Ah well.
The trays were filled with stones that we bought at the pet store-- they were aquarium stones. Much much cheaper than craft stones! The cards were pushed down into the stones so that they didn't blow away.
This is the only photo we have of the monogram wreath I made for the front door of the club. This was a 5 minute DIY project-- pearl letters I bought at a store in Northampton, a grapevine wreath from Michael's, and some ribbon. We'll hang it in our apartment when we get to that stage of settling in.
RSVP cards
At the bottom of our RSVP cards we suggested that the back of the card could be used to
"write a note, draw a picture, or compose a haiku." We got some very
creative responses-- some silly, some sweet, some adorable. We just had to share them! They were posted on an old bulletin board that my dad painted gold. We hung the board in
the little sitting area outside the reception room, which everyone passed by on their way into the room.
(click on the photo to see these in more detail.)
Next in the "little things" series, some details from inside the reception including our super duper budget friendly and green centerpieces.
(Photos in this post by Upstate Photographers as well as guests Julia, Michele and Morgan.)
Church
The church is beautiful, so we didn't worry about too many additional decorations. My mom made the pew wreathes, which we hung on every other pew up the center aisle. There were two flower arrangements at the church, and that was it.
We created a memorial area in the baptistery of the church-- each guest passed through here on the way in. We had a candle for each of our grandparents who have passed away, and a flower arrangement. We weren't originally planning on having flowers here, but rather than cancel entirely the two corsages that we had already ordered for our grandmothers, we had the flowers made into a small arrangement of roses and hydrangea. 
ReceptionAs I mentioned during planning, our reception was held at The Edison Club, a private country club in Rexford, NY.
Escort cardsThe escort cards were set up by the entrance to the cocktail hour on the terrace. We made the cards ourself- stamped and handwritten (no close ups of these, unfortunately). The trays were a few bucks each from Target (and we'll probably be selling three of these).
In the above photo you can sort of see the mercury glass lanterns that we hung along the path to the terrace.
The wedding photos are of our parents and grandparents. We had made little signs identifying each couple and their wedding date, but they never made it to the reception. Ah well.The trays were filled with stones that we bought at the pet store-- they were aquarium stones. Much much cheaper than craft stones! The cards were pushed down into the stones so that they didn't blow away.
(Hopefully that table skirt was fixed at some point!)
Mercury glass lantern (we found 6 for under $10 each at Marshall's).
Other outdoor tidbits
Mercury glass lantern (we found 6 for under $10 each at Marshall's).
This is the only photo we have of the monogram wreath I made for the front door of the club. This was a 5 minute DIY project-- pearl letters I bought at a store in Northampton, a grapevine wreath from Michael's, and some ribbon. We'll hang it in our apartment when we get to that stage of settling in. RSVP cards
At the bottom of our RSVP cards we suggested that the back of the card could be used to
"write a note, draw a picture, or compose a haiku." We got some very
creative responses-- some silly, some sweet, some adorable. We just had to share them! They were posted on an old bulletin board that my dad painted gold. We hung the board in
the little sitting area outside the reception room, which everyone passed by on their way into the room.
(click on the photo to see these in more detail.)Next in the "little things" series, some details from inside the reception including our super duper budget friendly and green centerpieces.
(Photos in this post by Upstate Photographers as well as guests Julia, Michele and Morgan.)
Continue reading The little things, part 2: Ceremony and the start of the reception.
the edison club (our reception venue) has finally brought their website out of 1998! it's not perfect (especially if you're using firefox and the window isn't maximized. hm, i'm assuming they're working on this...), but it's so much better than what they had. you too can see it, here.
elsewhere on the web, yet another fantastic post is up on a practical wedding. go read about 'wedding industry rage'. i have my own things to say on this topic, coming soon.
in the offline world, it seems that the 'is so and so invited to the wedding?' questions have begun. sigh.
elsewhere on the web, yet another fantastic post is up on a practical wedding. go read about 'wedding industry rage'. i have my own things to say on this topic, coming soon.
in the offline world, it seems that the 'is so and so invited to the wedding?' questions have begun. sigh.
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