Being a scrapbooker, I keep everything. You just never know when that birthday card from 3 years ago or that ticket stub from the movies will be the perfect piece needed for an album or another project. After our wedding I gathered up all the cards and added them to my collection, waiting for the day I had time to decide what to do with them. While browsing Pinterest I came across this great site, Simple Mom, with multiple ideas for re-purposing old cards and letters and then stumbled across Something Turquoise and her post with a great step-by-step post about creating a wedding card mini-album. I immediately knew that I wanted to create a coffee table book with all our wedding cards, that way in the years to come we can look back over all the warm wishes and remember how amazing it was to be surrounded by our friends and family on our big day. Here is how it turned out:
A word of warning. Wedding cards can be quite thick, and trying to punch holes with a 10 year old dull hand hole puncher will probably leave your hand bruised and sore. If you are willing to risk the discomfort, or buy a better hole punch, this is a great way to preserve wedding day well wishes. Continue reading
Unfortunately we had a late pear season last year, so the ones on the trees were far from being edible by the end of August. Luckily I was able to find a great deal on pears by the flat at Costco, and we were able to pick them up at the same time we grabbed all the flowers the day before the wedding.
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I had seen the great idea of taking a photo at our wedding with “Thank You” written on chalk boards, on signs and even in the sand. I just loved it and knew that I wanted to paint a rustic “Thank You” sign to use on our wedding day for our thank you cards. So much more unique and personalized for our guests to receive. Our photographer, 
During the final few months leading up to our wedding, I spent countless hours wandering the aisles of Joann’s looking for supplies and inspiration for our wedding projects. I was at a loss on how I wanted to create our wedding guest place cards, but there in the stamp aisle I found these super cute floral stamps and hot pink ink all for 40% off. Light bulb went off in my head and I knew exactly what to do!
here, I love these pens!) and wrote our song lyrics around the mat frame. Our song was Bob Marley “Is This Love”. I saw this idea on Pinterest a couple months ago and loved it!