pew cards
Well I hope you all don’t mind lots of wedding-themed posts! With nearly two weeks until our wedding, it’s all I can wrap my mind around.
Yesterday (inspired by those silhouettes I posted the other day), I came up with these for our pew cards. Our wedding is on the large side, in a church, and we’re reserving some rows for our immediate families up front. To make the usher’s jobs a little easier, I thought I’d give those with reserved seats a pew card to show to the usher.
But most importantly, they were fun to make.
I think I need a little practice cutting out circles, but otherwise I love them. I drew the silhouettes by tracing over back-lit photos in Adobe Illustrator, then I printed the design on vellum and glued it to cardstock craft paper.
You can see a few more, larger images on Mint’s flickr page.
*UPDATE: You can buy an adjustable circle cutter from Making Memories. Thanks Penny!
Responses to “pew cards”
erin
April 9, 2009 at 10:10 amendlessly lovely ideas! these are so sweet.
Amy@OldSweetSong
April 9, 2009 at 10:32 amThese look great! I can’t wedding to see more wedding posts, keep ‘em coming.
Jane Flanagan
April 9, 2009 at 10:46 amLovely!
Megan
April 9, 2009 at 10:58 amThese are super cute!
suzanne
April 9, 2009 at 11:08 amI hear you on the circle cutting! Along with vowing to love my husband, I vowed after my wedding to never do anything with circles again!
Lovely work!
nicole
April 9, 2009 at 1:03 pmCutting circles is the worse thing ever. I hope you don’t have to do too many!
kcpenelope
April 9, 2009 at 7:05 pmyou should consider getting an actual circle-cutting tool. the day i bought mine, i cut and cut and cut, for hours! i made circles out of every piece of paper i could find. you can find one for a reasonable price at just about any craft store — totally worth it!
kcpenelope
April 9, 2009 at 7:06 pmdid i mention that you can change the diameter of the circles? :-)
ellie
April 9, 2009 at 7:27 pmthanks everyone, and kcpenelope – where do i buy one of those?! the only ones i could find were 1 and 2″ (too small…)
Jessica
April 9, 2009 at 8:21 pmNice use of Radio! /fontnerd
ellie
April 9, 2009 at 8:49 pmyou can buy an adjustable circle cutter here (http://www.shopatron.com/product/part_number=17590/388.0)
Thanks Penny!
Kathleen at Twig & Thistle
April 13, 2009 at 1:49 amWhat a lovely idea! I never would have thought to do something like that, I love it! Definitely posting about these. Lovely job and congratulations!!!!
Cindy
April 28, 2009 at 11:08 amWow! Love the idea – Makes me wish my family was bigger just so I could use pew cards!!!
Nanette
June 18, 2009 at 4:37 amwhen do you give out the pew cards? in the invitation? just curious because this sounds like a great but i can’t picture when you hand them these things where they won’t forget bring them.
ellie
June 18, 2009 at 8:36 amhi nannette, we handed them out at the rehearsal dinner. no one forgot, but i told them if they did to just mention it to the usher – problem solved!