Origami Place Cards

So the other day my mom found an origami book at Half-Price books for $6, and in it, she came up with an idea for our place cards! 

Yesterday we bought paper, and today, we tested our ideas out and came up with these:

This is the one for Friday night, because it's a little bit more work to make, and we need less place cards for Friday's dinner.  I think we'll us a silver pen instead of gold, and the purple paper is the same from our invitations.

  

This is the one for the actual wedding. The paper is iridescent, but it's hard to tell because the camera doesn't pick that up. Also, the purple paper with a design on it is handmade paper. I love working with textiles so much!

We are also thinking we will have used books to donate in honor of our wedding for our centerpieces (donating something and using it as a centerpiece is a very common Jewish thing to do...my sister did food for the local food shelf at her Bat Mitzvah...) I think it will be a good reminder to help the community around us while we are celebrating such a Simcha, and to start our life together by giving something back.

Anyways, off to get some stuff done!

Shavouah-tov!

Mir