Before my wedding, I got lost in the world of wedding blogs and every
now and then I'd surface with one (thousand) things I wanted to do for
my own wedding. One of those things was table numbers made from books.
The (now) Husband took one look at the picture I had as inspiration and
said, "I can do that". I was skeptical, but surrendered a book I knew I
wouldn't reread with the proviso that I
would be able to, if I
wanted to, after he was done. I was blown away by the result, and
needless to say he ended up doing all of the table numbers for our
wedding. He also made a "true love" pop-out which we used as a prop in photos and also sat on the bridal table, plus a "where we came from" sign that sat with photos of our parents and grandparents on their wedding days. We completed the decorations with
pink and ivory flowers in assorted vases and stacks of books in shades of of pink, green and blue, tied up with ivory ribbon. We also put a baseball on each table, to represent The Husband's favourite pastime, and asked the guests to sign them as lovely mementos in addition to
our guestbook.
OK, you're probably wondering about now why this post is titled "bookish buys" when it's all about my wedding. Well! The husband had so much fun creating the table numbers that he decided to continue doing it, and set up an
Etsy store for custom orders. He has also started creating some adorable characters. So this post is kind of a shameless plug, but I figured I spend plenty of time promoting
other people's Etsy stores, I should be able to promote The Husband's. I'm biased, but I love what he's created. Although I don't like seeing books cut up, they're all second-hand AND if you really want to, you can pop the characters/letters back into the book and it's still readable, give or take a few words. So, you know, no books were (seriously) harmed in the making of these projects. Check out his store,
Custom Book Art, if you're after table numbers or book art, and message him for requests if you have any. The characters he's done so far are
Peter Pan and
Winnie-the-Pooh, but I have it on good authority that he's got Allie and Noah from
The Notebook and Sherlock Holmes coming up.
Wedding photography by J Roberts Photography
