DIY Save the Date Ideas...

*Items you will need: Bride and Groom/4 pages of Card Stock/Camera Booth at the mall
*Directions: On the cards write 1. Save 2. The 3. Date 4. (write the date of your wedding)
*Bride and groom enter the photo booth and hold up a sign during each of the photos being taken so that the sequence reads: Save The Date (date). You may smile/Kiss for your different poses.....
*After session is complete, take your photo to a copy shop and copy on the photo quality copier the number of Save-The-Dates you will need to send to your guests.

DIY Seating Card Ideas...

Wreath of greenery
*A 24 inch wreath will hold about 60 leaf cards
*Items you will need: Wreath made of greenery, Boxwood is nice. Sturdy craft paper, pinking scisors of your choice for the leaf edging, leaf template, floral wire, paper glue, sturdy craft paper in the same color or a color that will complement leaf paper, floral wire, wire cutters, craft scisors
*Directions:
Cut leafs out for each guest/couple
On coordinating paper print guest/guests names and table numbers
*Assemble:
Glue name/names to each leaf placing floral wire piece between each lable and leaf. Attach to Wreath.

Carnation Bed....

Display tented place cards on a bed of carnations.
1 block takes about 2 dozen carnations and will hold approximately 4-5 name cards.
*Items you will need:
Carnations, floral foam blocks, sharp knife, rimmed cookie sheets, water, carnations, tented place cards, printer/write your own/or have them calligraphed.
*Assembly:
Cut each floral foam piece in half so that you have 2 pieces of the same 'origional' length.
Place floral foam in cookie sheets with sides as you will be adding water. (Be sure each floral foam brick is soaked)
Cut carnation stems so that when they are inserted into the foam only the heads are visible. (each foam brick will take approx 2 dozen flowers as you do not want any holes)
On the tented place cards: Write each guest/couples names on the front and the table number on the inside.
(You could also use the smaller one sided/one piece cards that lay flat, but the tented cards look a little nicer...)
Items you will need: