50th Wedding Anniversary!

My in-laws are having their 50th Wedding Anniversary next weekend.  We will be celebrating with a Mass on Saturday morning followed by a luncheon at a hotel reception room nearby.  It will be a small gathering of friends and relatives.  Grandma Carol brought over her wedding, trip, and baby pictures so I could make storyboards for the reception.  This seemed daunting at first, but then turned into a lot of fun.

First, I put gold photo corners on all the pics I decided to use.  I then stuck the photo corners onto the display surface.  This is great if you don't want to damage photos.

Here is one of the finished storyboards.

Next, I had to think of centerpieces.  The hotel is providing table linens so all the tables will have a white tablecloth.  I did a search and found the idea to make photo tents for the centerpieces laying them atop gold ribbon.  After a trip to Joanne's the ribbon was going to be a bit expensive so I came up with a different idea. 

The Photo Tents

I copied some of Grandma's wedding photos and baby and little boy pictures of the boys onto white card stock.  I cropped them and mounted them on gold half sheets of card stock.

Then, I mounted these opposite one another onto a large sheet of black card stock folding each of them in half to make the tent.

I picked up a paper stack at Joanne's that had a few gold sheets inside to use for the base of the centerpiece.  The stack is called "Be Mine" so it's very lovey-dovey...you know, weddings and all!

Here's how the tents will look on the day of the reception.  Pretty cool, huh!

And here's a little secret you should all know about...or maybe you all ready do...Anchor Paper in St. Paul is where I picked up the gold and black card stock.  They sell everything in bulk so I ended up spending about $4.00 on making the photo tents.  The paper stack was on sale at Joanne's for $10.