Case studies
How three very different celebrations used a patch bar
Different venues, different guest counts, same result: the favor everyone kept.
The garden hundred
A spring garden wedding with a strict "nothing that ends up in a landfill" brief. We ran a single favor table with natural canvas totes and a 45-patch botanical menu — pressed flowers in thread form. The couple skipped a champagne wall and moved that budget to the bar. By the send-off, the lawn was a sea of matching totes, and the couple's only regret was not ordering a jacket for the officiant, who asked. Lesson we now pass on: order two or three extra blanks beyond the RSVP count for exactly this reason.
The ranch production
Full three-part setup at a working ranch: couple's denim jackets pressed live at golden hour while the photographer circled, fourteen trucker hats for the wedding party during cocktail hour, and a favor lane that ran until the band's last set. The venue had one distant power drop, so we pre-walked the site two weeks out and brought rated cable runs — the kind of thing that never makes the mood board but decides whether the night works. Total station time: four hours live, one hour in, forty-five minutes out.
The two-night weekender
The couple booked the reception station first, then realized the crew would already be in town Friday. We added a welcome-party hat bar at their rented house for a fraction of a standalone booking — the $900 travel fee covered the trip, not each night. Friday built the hats; Saturday's favor table pressed city-motif patches onto bandanas that doubled as heat relief on a 104-degree terrace. Two nights, one travel line, and a group photo where forty hats point at the camera.
Planning something that does not fit these molds? Good. Tell us what you are imagining and we will draw the version that fits your room, or start with the service menu.