For the invitations, I got silver cardstock, cut each piece in half width wise, and folded each one of those in half to form the card. I then cut out each insert to fit with a 1/4" allowance around the edge and glued them together just along the backside of the fold. I then cut a TINY slit about an inch from the top and bottom along the fold line to put a piece of red ribbon through, which I then tied on the outside. My nana helped me cut the velum for the front with a 1/4" allowance all around. I stamped "25th" on the front of each card, used a tiny piece of double sided tape on each corner of the velum to place it over the top of the stamped card, and then used glue dots to place tiny pearls over the corners to help hide the double sided tape, and also for more decoration. The pearls came on a sheet with approximately a million on it (okay, maybe slightly less...) and the sheet itself was a clear sticky material, but it showed too much. I popped each pearl off and used the glue dots instead to stick them on. Tiny, meticulous work, but it was worth it. On the back of the card (I forgot to take a picture of it) I stamped 1 Corinthians 13:7 "Love beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."
For the hall, I was blessed to be able to use the fellowship hall at my church without cost. There are 3 pillars in the room, so I strung red and silver streamers in between them and from the outer ones to the walls, with 4 balloons on each pillar, 2 red and 2 silver. I pushed 3 sets of 2 long folding tables together on one half of the room and on the other half I butted 2 together up against the wall for all the food. Each table had a (plastic) silver tablecloth on the bottom, and then I cut a (plastic) red one in half and laid them on each table diagonally to create a diamond shape. In the middle of each diamond I placed a mirror with 2 fake tea lights on top of it. It gave the tables a little bit of elegance without going over the top. The last, but not least, thing I did was set up a table for all the gifts at the back of the hall, where I also had my laptop going with a slideshow I made of pictures of my parents from the time they started dating (prom in the 80's...WOW!!) through a few days before the party. I snagged a LOT of pictures off social media, but I also had to sneak through all their shoe boxes of pictures to take some home to scan them and then sneak them back without them knowing anything. That was a fun time haha. Everybody loved the whole set up, the most common thing I heard was that it was beautiful without being overdone, which is exactly what I'd been aiming for! The slideshow was a definite hit! I still have it saved on my computer so I can watch it from time to time :)
Oh, and for the record, I got most of what I needed at the dollar store, or with coupons at Michaels. There are benefits to planning things well in advance! The mirrors were from the dollar store, they were framed but I just took the frame off and washed them and you'd never know the difference, the table cloths were all $1 or cheaper (I found the silver ones on sale for 50 cents a piece), the streamers and balloons were all $1, even the tea lights I think I only spent $5 on. The velum, cardstock, and pearls, along with the different types of glue I used were all from Michaels and either on sale or I had coupons for. Shout out to RetailMeNot, a fantastic little app that always has coupons for Michaels, check it out if you haven't yet. I spent most of my money on food, typical of me haha. Have you planned any fun parties that you'd like to share?
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