Firstly, the table decorations.
I knew early on that I would like to have tea pots and teacups so I searched for ideas and ended up deciding on teacup candles and paper flowers in the tea pots. We had 8 tables and I wanted to put four or five cups on each table so about 40 candles to make and enough flowers to fill 8 teapots (too many to count!). We trawled the car boot in the area for a few weeks, constantly coming back with a boot full of china.
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| A small part of our collection |
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| Close up of one of the bubble flowers |
The candles were made by sticking pre-weighted wicks to the bottom of the cup using a glue dot, melting wax and dye in a glass bowl over a saucepan of water and pouring into the cups.
Here is a photo of the finished product:
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| The candle factory! |
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| A filled teapot along with two teacup candles |
Also on the table I wanted to create table numbers. I decided to use embroidery hoops and create the numbers by sewing buttons onto some plain fabric. I then decorated around the outside.
All that was then left for the tables were the favours and place names. We bought the card templates for the place names, added some tartan ribbon (because the wedding was in Scotland) and wrote the names on ourselves.
For the favours we chose Gingerbread men and woman. I decided that it would be fun to make these- this was a slightly crazy decision, on reflection, as they could not be made until the week of the wedding and, as I wanted to give a pair to each person, meant making about 200 of them. I spent a morning running a gingerbread factory and eating any that broke or looked a little too tanned!
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| Not all of the gingerbread people were perfect. |
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| The finished table |
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| With flowers and candles |
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| and the table numbers |
Love,
Mrs Jones
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