For reused items, eBay was my very best friend. To orient our guests to the importance of the place was chose for the wedding, I ordered a bunch of vintage linen California postcard from the 1900-1940s.
We used these both as simple Save the Dates (printed the wedding information on 3x5 stickers, and pressed them on the back of the postcards), and as escort cards, strung on twine with clothespins, which were the first thing guests saw when they arrived at the wedding site.
Postcards were a fitting theme, as both of us love to send postcards from our travels. I found some vintage toy mailboxes on eBay which complemented the postcard theme on the guest book table.
The postcard theme was picked up on the dining tables, where postcards from places we'd traveled together were the markers for each table.
The dinner table decor was simple:
Local, seasonal dahlias in blue glass vases (re-purposed wine glasses from Crate and Barrel, which guests report they love using post-wedding),
Persimmons and pomegranates, local, seasonal fruits, which guests reported enjoying for days after the wedding, and sunflowers in reused vases from eBay.
We were able to borrow white lights from a classmate who got married at the same spot the previous year,
And scored a bunch of borrowed/ donated paper lanterns from two weddings we attended previously that summer. (These lanterns and some of the vases have now been handed off to a friend getting married in August. Yay, Wedding Co-op! Yay, reuse!)
At the origami table, guests made paper cranes for good luck.
I think our budget for decor was maybe $200. We spent another $300 on cut flowers, which friends arranged in our vases.
With the beauty of the location, we didn't have to do much.
Images, except for a few, by the incomparable Kate Harrison.#1, 11, 12 by Doc Water.
Heron by Srabani.
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I loved your wedding and really like the use of the vintage postcards. I bought some and never used them but wish I had now.
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