Free Templates for Table Numbers

{Better Homes & Gardens}

These are the items I have under my "table number" tab in my delicious bookmarking. I love the simplicity and uniqueness of the etched table numbers in the clear vase, especially with a pretty red flower in it but most likely will go with something on paper. Our venue provides silver frames for the numbers and will even print them out for us, how sweet is that!

















{Martha}


















{Bridal Part Tees} {Ruffled Blog}

Free paper airplane save the date from Ruffled Blog

Isn't weird when talk about something or are looking for something and then all of a sudden it appears in your life some how? For example when mi amor & I were dating he said that on his to do list before he dies, he wanted to go to a Police concert, only problem was the Police had broken up 20 years ago. A few weeks after he told me this, the Police announce that they are doing a reunion tour! We saw them play at Dodger Stadium on June 23, 2007. crazy. Another small example is last friday I was looking for a postcard to send & was looking for a picture of a paper airplane with the dotted lines coming out of it & also an air mail looking envelope, I found one card on etsy but since I needed to mail it out on friday, this was not going to work, in the end I could not find a prinatble one, so I made something else instead..now fast forward to today & I look in my google reader and Ruffled Blog has a FREE template for an airmail envelope and a save the date with a paper air plane. crazy! Although I did not need the save the date, the template is freaking awesome.

*here*

DIY Jam labels FREE

I am digging these adorable DIY jam jars from Eat Drink Chic! You can't really see it in the picture but my favorite part is the tag that says "homemade with love" & how sweet that she shared the instructions and labels *here* ! This would make a great wedding favor!

Speaking of Bridal Magazines..

Style Bridal Magazine has some great FREE templates for invites, placecards, table numbers etc etc. Check out the preppy invites, "have a ball invites" , garden party & modern invites.

DIY STD

At last my first DIY! what what!

We were fortunate enough to win 50 STD in a contest but since we needed about 20 more, I decided to make postcards. I bought Avery 3380 Personal Creations Textured Postcards , only $10.95 (120 postcards). The postcards come 4 in a sheet, and are easy to take apart, I was very happy with the texture of the postcard but they were not as thick as I hoped they would be, but hey at .08 per postcard I ain't complaining! I then downloaded the Avery word template, saved the first file as "STD front" and pasted the beautiful monograms that Jeff Williams created for me. For the back of the postcard, I once again began with the Avery word template saved the file as "STD back", then downloaded a Martha Stewart postcard template, but since the postcard template is a pdf, and would only print 1 to a page, I copied just the text "postcard" and "stamp" and made it into a clip art. I then added two text boxes; 1 that had the std info and 2 for the guest's address, this took more time then it should of because I am not as profeciaent in word then I am in excel. As usual, I spent too much time deciding what fonts to use, I even combined some; the florish you see at the end of the "e" on word Date is actually the letter "f" with font "Ornament Scrolls And Florishes" and the two swirls you see next to the actual date are the letters "a" and "b" with font Nymphette by the ever talented Nymphont. I would be more than happy to share the postcard template, so if you want it feel free to email me at westsidewedding@gmail.com

These pictures were taken with my iphone, so you can't really see the detail, but the first picture in this post has a close up of the texture.

I plan on mailing out the STD this week, so about 6 months in advance, did you do STD and if so how early did you mail them out?

DIY Wedding Water Labels all over the web!

{Source Inspire The Bride }

I have found so many diy water labels online that were so generously shared by other brides that I wanted to put them on in one post. I wish I was as talented & creative as these ladies!Please remember to give them credit for their work, if you re post this or use the templates. In total there are 20 labels from 7 wonderful brides who were so sweet to share their templates.

1. knottie krhagen has graciously shared 9 water bottle templates! *here*
2. Lauren Egkan, Wedding Planner of The Royal Engagement is the creater of the blog Inspire The Bride and has shared a damask, polka dot & black & white pattern water label
3. Here are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 templates from DIY Bride.
4. Mrs. Lemon shared 3 templates on weddingbee
5. Mrs. Firefly also has a water bottle template *here*
6. Kari aka Knottie macdidlyicious, shared her pretty pink lables on Vintage Glam Blog *here*
7. Abbie from A Glimpse of the girl next door has a tutorial on water bottle lables.

{Source Vintage Glam Blog }