I know I am such a coppy cat...

WHAT COLOR FONT ARE YOU ALL DOING?????
I'm thinking either a dark peach or a silver.

Wanda- I am in Westbury but wouldn't bother you to do that. That's sweet of you.

Jenn- Congrats!!!!! How did you make your template?? On what program???

Liz- The hardest part is making the template. Have you tried??

Liz- I am using black font.

Jenn- I think I am the only one on earth that doesn't have MS Publisher. It's soooo frustrating

Ask Stef if theres another way curly
FM her

Her and Susans did it on those high techie programs I don't have. I'm trying on plain old MS Word and the sizes don't match up

Oh shoot, I haven't tried yet, I told you ..laziness. UGH.
I THINK I may have MS Publisher at home, I'll have to check tonight . . .

Who on earth has the template for this thing? I need it !!!!!!
What program did Steph use?

I did it in Publisher, but I think that Stef used MS Word.

About the font.
It's proabably best to go with a dark color and something not to scripty. You want to make sure that when they're all lined up and lit, that they'll be easy to read.

You're probably right Susan. I was going to use the same font I'm doing for almost everything else - Edwardian, but I'll choose something simple for these
BTW, do you have the template?

I would like to know this too. Right now, I am clueless, but I will try a sample tonight and post a pic.

I didnt make an exact template - just an oversized one so I could fit several labels on an 8*11 sheet. It looked something like this:

__________________________


Mrs & Mr. X
Table 5



Mr & Mrs Y
Table 6



Mr & Mrs Z
Table 7

___________________________


Since each glass votive holder is a slightly different shape, there was no way to make a template that would work for each one. (even though they look the same, they are not)

So I made the oversize template and then cut each one to size.


As for the font, I did use something scripty to match everything else. Someone said it was hard to read at the wedding but I dont really see how that was a huge problem since they were all lined up alphabetically anyway. No matter what the font, they are going to be a little hard to read since they are lit and sort of small. Not sure what really happened, but lots of people realy loved them - even people I never expected to even notice something like a placecard.

They were too plain IMO using the block font so Im glad I used something more decorative. Susan used a pretty plain font but dressed up with ribbon so that took care of that problem.

Sounds good Stef, I'll follow your example when I try mines tonight. Thanks