"It Is Not Only Fine Feathers That Make Fine Birds."

Fine Paper Works Too

As I mentioned before, we had some birds at our wedding. It all started with a cake topper. My inner Disney freak would have liked to have had Ariel and Eric on top of our cake, but reason and a skeptical Groom won out. I am however the proud owner of a pair of Fischer's love birds. They look a lot like these guys:



My husband is more of a barely tolerating cohabitant of the love birds, but he was a good sport and agreed to let me deck out our nuptials with birds. It all started when my mom suggested this cake topper, which I can only imagine that my husband thought was a marked improvement over Ariel and Eric.



While we're at it, check out the Cupcake Tower on Etsy. It was totally perfect for our cupcake cake. Most of the commercially available stands have something sticking out of the top that would prevent having a cake to cut. What would we have cut if there was no cake on top? Utter nonsense!

So back to the topic at hand. This has just been a roundabout way of getting to our love bird table numbers. I wanted an elegant silhouette that would give our tables some pizzazz. Now, I believe in giving credit where credit is due, so I must admit that I took the idea and part of my template from a seller on Etsy. My version is not die cut however, so I needed to simplify the design. I cut about forty of these guys (for twenty table numbers total) out by hand in order to prepare for the unlikely event that every single guest would RSVP in the affirmative. We didn't need nearly that many, but always be prepared! I made these by cutting two frames and then gluing a piece of white card stock in between. I then enlarged numbers in Garamond font in Microsoft Word and cut the numbers out individually. The numbers were then glued to the back and front of the white card stock. Here's a close up of the end result:



Here's what our tables looked like:



All in all, this was a little time consuming, but I liked the touch it added to our tables.