Marriage Monday - The Tables


The tables at the reception gave me a bit of an ulcer; they were perhaps the most stressful thing for me in terms of wedding planning. I had a vision of what I wanted them to look like and it just wasn't coming together as I hoped it would.

I knew I was going to do candles somehow because flowers are ridiculously expensive and just an unneeded cost. I originally bought some candle holders from ebay to use as the centerpieces. They were black and I asked my dad to spray paint them silver for me. The paint didn't stick and it just made them look super cheap, so I was pretty upset about it. I had spent a little money on them and didn't have enough left in the centerpiece budget to buy or rent different ones.

Philip's parents caught wind of my dilemma and offered to pay for me to rent what I wanted. I was so thankful because I got a trio of glass candle holders from I Do Events in Washington and they turned out so lovely.


I put all of this pressure on myself to have some unique and classy elements at our wedding. The centerpieces, I think, were one of those elements. I liked the clear bead things and I personally hadn't seen them at any other weddings, so I was excited to use them for ours.


My table numbers were another thing that we didn't get a good picture of. I did the typical thing that people do for table numbers. I just printed the numbers out and put the paper in a frame on the table. It was not that time consuming and they turned out pretty good. It was Philip's suggestion to do a fancier corner punch, so good job, cutie! Some of our frames were black and some of them were brown (on accident), but I bet no one noticed!

I borrowed other votive holders from my friend, Sheila, so the tables were just covered with candles. I wanted a romantic atmosphere and it felt that way, kinda. We had purple overlays for the tablecloths and that just added a little color to the room; I'm so glad that I went for the extra $9 per table to do that. Yeah--$9 for an overlay.

For all of the little complaining that I do, I was pretty happy with how everything turned out. The whole day was such a whirlwind that I didn't really have time to overthink anything anyway and so to me, and to probably everyone else, everything looked lovely. And it was worth the cost in the end.

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