"Look What I Made!" - Family Photo Edition

I so, so badly wanted to have photos from our parents' and grandparents' weddings displayed at our reception. Jeff and I feel really blessed to have families that have set such a wonderful example for us of what a real, loving marriage should be like, and I wanted to acknowledge that at our wedding.

I'm really hoping Kelli got some good photos of the display all set up at the wedding, but for now you'll just have to look at my hastily-snapped shots of the practice set-up at my parents' house.

All of the white frames came from Ross or TJMaxx... major deals!!

This is a mock-up of everything on my parents' dining room table. We put little labels in front of each frame with names and wedding dates. We didn't have wedding photos for Jeff's grandparents (and step-grandma), so we just used individual photos from the same time period and put them in frames together. They sat behind our guestbook so everyone would see them.

The whole set-up: Guestbook with family photo frames, Guestbook quilt stuff. These were all set up just like this on a counter at the country club's entrance.

I'm SO glad I did this project. It was a little bit of work to get all the photos together, but it was great to have them at the wedding. Even more importantly, I now have copies of all of those photos that I can keep, put up in our home, and one day show our kids. Families really are so, so important, and it makes me happy to have these photographic artifacts from special moments in my family's history.

EDIT: here's what they looked like all set up at our reception: