A Review of My Wedding: Table Tents, Guest Trees, and More

This was one of my most special and amazing parts of my wedding:

Our Guest Tree.

I had been browsing wedding blogs in my spare time and found a picture of a guest tree.

Instead of signing names, guests put a thumbprint on a tree and signed there name above their print.

I LOVED IT!!

However, I don't draw and don't know anyone who does.

At least in real life.

However, my bloggie friend Shellbell from Chapped Lips and All is an amazing artist.

So, although I wasn't sure she'd do it or how much it would cost,

I sent her an email and asked if there was any way I could commission her to paint me a guest tree.

And because she's SOO amazing, she offered to do it for free.  And mail it for free.

As a wedding gift.

Except I had never even met her so she didn't have any reason to send me a gift.

Except that she's amazing and the nicest person ever.

I couldn't have ever imagined a better tree.  It was PERFECT.

And everyone loved the idea.

And now we have it framed and look at it all the time.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you Shellbell.

These were my table tents.  I wanted to keep as many things homemade and Vermontish rather than professional and expensive-looking.  My mom found this drawing on a coaster from a Vermont artist and we copied the image (of a maple sugar house, of course) onto table tent cards. 

My bridesmaid Sarah and I wrote the table assignments and names on each card...

the night before the wedding!

Talk about last minute.

And something even funnier?

I missed Table 2 - so there was only Table 1, and then Tables 3-7.

Yeah - whoops!!

And this was my little welcome table.  You can see the beautiful Guest Tree before people thumbprinted it, and the lysol whipes to clean their little thumbs.  Also, on the top of the little mountain is the instructions for the guest tree - made my my wonderful aunt.

I loved the little table all set up.

So pretty.

I couldn't have done this without Shellbell, my aunt, my amazing mom, my dad (he printed out all the little tents) and Sarah.

Thank you!!!