March 7

The Missionary Luncheon was so wonderful today :) I loved hearing the missionary wives' testimonies. I did end up with a full table, despite the fact that almost all of my close friends were not able to attend, so that was good, too. I was a little worried about that! haha! All of the tables looked so pretty, and I must say that I was super pleased with how mine turned out. So, without further delay, here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure :) 



Here's a view of the whole table. Since this was for the missionaries, I thought the "Pray"/Cross Theme that I used for the table decor was quite appropriate. The table was laden with elegant little touches of crystals, pearls and beautiful candles.  At the head of each place setting was a very ornate black cross on a small pedestal, which was sat next to a crystal bordered 2 inch square frame with the Bible verse "Mark 16:15" inside.

This is one of the two different place settings. Each person had a wrapped chocoloate covered strawberry and a bracelet as my gift to them. I always thought it was such a nice touch when the hosts provided that for their guests so I wanted to make sure to do that for mine. I could only find 4 of the zebra teacups and saucers, so I had to improvise a little with the secondary place settings, pictured below.  



How do you like the zebra "napkins"? They are actually bandanas from Hobby Lobby! They tied in the zebra print nicely since I didn't have enough teacups. I was very concerned about that, but we ended up with two of them still clean, so I guess it wasn't really an issue :)



Here's a picture of the chair covering. I found this super wide ribbon at Hobby Lobby for like $5, and had enough on it to do all of the chairs. I just tied a very simple bow with some additional ribbon and called it done :) And Fabulous!