the poe reception
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This May, David and I put together a casual wedding reception for our friends and family to enjoy with us.
Since we had gotten married in November of last year, by the Justice of the Peace, everyone wanted a party to celebrate us making it official.
David and I don’t like big traditional weddings, so we made everything simple. We rented a pavilion at Landa Park in New Braunfels, TX, a park that I always have fond memories of. We made and put together our own invitations, decorations, and favors. I didn’t want to deal with the food, so we got that catered.
My favorite part of planning the reception was creating the favors that also served as table decorations. I had gathered a large collection of glass jars that I hadn’t figured out what to do with yet, and David was threatening to throw into the recycling, so I started looking online for inspiration. I found wedding decoration photos that took cuttings of plants and made planters as gifts. Perfect! Outside instantly, I took cuttings of my mints, rosemary, lavender, thymes, basil, oregano, catnip, and lemon balm. David found some wide purple ribbon to reuse and tie around the glass jars, which started our color pallet. The design work for the invites, thank you cards, and the planter tags was done by David, and on the back of the tags he wrote out the common and botanical names for the cuttings. Everything came together perfectly and everyone enjoyed themselves. We couldn’t have asked for more.
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 6:11 am and is filed under MrDavidPoe, photos.
12:51 pm on August 22nd, 2010
Totally off topic but you just really made me laugh. This jar thing must have some biological explanation. I also began collecting jars much to my boyfriend’s chagrin. I promised him that I would stop just as soon as I had “enough” but long after that point I still found myself buying the most useless groceries in the most useless sizes just so that I could keep the jar. I thought I was the only one….
Last week over picnic lunch with my boyfriend’s work friends and their wives, one of the women began talking about her jars and her husband’s threats to give them away. Every other woman there confessed to doing the exact same thing while the husbands mumbled and grumbled and shook their heads….
12:52 pm on August 22nd, 2010
Wow, and I thought I was alone too… hahahaha