Our Wedding Day: Reception Table Setup

Outside of our Reception facility

Inside the Reception facility (obviously not set up for a wedding )

We also added in dark gray letterpressed menus to each place setting.  We used the same paper from our invitations (which I debut in a separate post) and the skills of the brilliant Twin Ravens Letterpress (who also did our invitations).  We placed a silver bellyband with white calligraphy around each menu that served as each guest’s place card.  We used the beautiful calligraphy skills of Michele Clark to complete these.  It was important to me to use place cards to assign seating because a) it gave me an excuse to use calligraphy (love) and b) I didn’t want anyone fretting over seating (it’s a party guys, no need to be nervous).  While assigning seats took more time on my part, I think it was time well spent to relieve any anxiety/stress for my guests.

At the far end of each table, we placed a table number that was made of the same paper as our menu belly bands and featured the same beautiful calligraphy from Michele.  We bought these frames from a dollar store and decided to spray print them white (they were originally a plastic looking silver) to better match our décor.