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We made our own centerpieces. We printed black & white images on vellum paper and glued the vellum to glass cylinder vases. Inside the vases we placed lit tealight candles. There were three different sized vases per table and they were set on a black square plate with white marbles. Our florist scattered lime green dendrobium orchids on the plate at the base of the candles for added effect. We also had 4 extra tealight candles in black glass holders around the main centerpiece.

DIY luminary supplies & where to get them:

*8.5" x 11" vellum paper: www.paperandmore.com
*6.5", 7", 10" tall glass cylinder vases: www.save-on-crafts.com
*Clear cup tealight candles: www.candlesjustonline.com
*Black satin ribbon, 1/4" to hide the top and side seam, 1 1/2" to hide the bottom seam: www.papermart.com
*Roll-on adhesive dispenser (to glue the vellum to the vase): from the scrapbooking section of AC Moore craft store
*Glue gun (to glue the ribbon to the vase)
*Black square plates: www.galasource.com

Here are a few closeups taken while we were making them:





We're named the tables after Boston landmarks that are significant to us. Each table had 3 different pictures of the place it was named after.

We also added fuchsia table runners to all the guest tables, cake table, guest book table, etc. and I think it made a world of difference. We bought the fabric at JoAnn Fabrics on clearance for $3.99 and my wonderful mother sewed them all for us. All in all I think we spent about $15-$20 per table. It was a lot of work, though. :)

Our DIY Invitations were originally inspired by designs from www.notfromabox.com, particularly the Park Avenue design, but we wanted square envelopment-type invites so we ended up just making them ourselves.

Below you can see us using a template to get the main invitation glued onto the backing in the right place:



Here you can see all the pieces layed out as they are assembled:



The front of the finished product (we are not using traditional inner envelopes so peoples names are printed here):



The inside of the finished product with the main invitation on the right side and the other pieces stacked on the left:



All in all these invitations cost about $100 total to make (not including postage). The black paper is a linen cardstock that I got from www.paperandmore.com. The pink ribbon is a single-faced satin ribbon that I got from www.papermart.com and the white cardstock is Stardream Quartz from www.envelopemall.com. I HIGHLY recommend EnvelopeMall if you want to buy from the Stardream line because it is SOOO much cheaper than www.paper-source.com. All of the printing was done on the Xerox printer at my office.
NOTE: the Stardream cardstock was an absolute NIGHTMARE to print on, so much that Kinkos and Staples wouldn't even try it. It is very expensive to have it professionally printed because it cannot go through most standard laser printers and you can not print it on a deskjet or inkjet because the ink does not dry throughly and will smudge when you mail it. I wish I had known this before I started the project. :)

I should mention that I used the assembly directions by knottie PatricksAngel to put our invitations together and they were SOO helpful!