When Kate started planning her wedding WAY back in the Winter of 2019, she asked me if I could make the name tags for the Wedding reception.  Well, after an extra year to prepare for it, I, fortunately, started in the spring of this year and, working with Kate, came up with  a wooden card, laser engraved with a Lavender flower (the reception was held at the Lavender Farm in Durham), and CNC engraved script names.

To cover prototyping and last minute additions and changes, I made over 200 blanks.  Good thing, too!  There were a few cutting mistakes, some name misspellings, some last minute additions (subtractions weren’t a problem), marriages, divorces, and even a ‘he’ becoming a ‘she’…

Here a couple of ‘random’ examples of the tags I made…

Examples of the name tags I made for Kate’s Wedding reception. The stands are made from HDPE that I machined in my workshop. The gold one is after Paul painted all the ones used at the reception. Pretty fancy!