Anyone who knows me knows that I am a sucker for anything sentimental. I just can’t help it, but I’m known for being cheesy. That being said, at our wedding we had a station that housed a typewriter (that we scored at a garage sale for $5!) where our guests could type us advice, notes, or well wishes. It was one of my favorite parts of the wedding and it was totally Josh’s idea!
In the end, we were left with a long roll of paper full of notes that left us stumped with how to incorporate it into our home. I eventually decided to tear it into 3 pieces (as evenly as I possibly could, but since the spacing between each note was not uniform, it was kind of a challenge). I then was able to get 3 custom frames and plexi glass cut for them so we could hang them on the wall. And that is the journey we embarked upon tonight.
We finally decided it was time to add some interest to our bare walls and hang up the pieces of the notes from our wedding in a triptych like fashion. Behold:
First, Josh traced the frames onto newspaper so we could get the size of the frames and move them around on the wall without committing to anything (as in: putting permanent holes into the aparment walls).
Then we used tape to hang the pieces of newspaper so we could get an idea of where we wanted the frames to hang before nailing into the wall.
Once we got the spacing between the frames and height where we wanted it, we nailed into the wall (over the newspaper), tore the newspaper down, and hung the frames.
Voila!
I just loved rereading the cute, funny, and heartfelt notes that people left us on our wedding day. What sentimental items do you keep around the house?
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