Mrs. Bell Pepper, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 28, Resident Physician
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Resident Physician
Engagement Date: May 30, 2006
Wedding Date: June 2007
Venue: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
About Me: I love whimsical details and design, everything that *sparkles*, sipping on hazelnut lattes, pugs, shopping for antiques and second-hand goods, scenic photography, delicate flowers, and checking out new restaurants in the city with my fianc??. We are planning our wedding at a unique city venue for about 75 close family members and friends. I have a lot of DIY ideas and I like to blog about ways to save money on your wedding.
Lacy Votives Made Simple
May 11th, 2007 @ 3:06 pm by Mrs. Bell Pepper
Materials Used:
- Lace
- Ivory Vellum Paper
- Satin Ribbon
- Double Sided Scotch Tape
- Votive Candle Holder
- Scissors
This is kind of a quick and simple way to make lacy votives without having to use a sewing machine.
- Measure the length around a tea votive holder and cut vellum paper and lace a few inches longer than the length of the votive.
- Apply several pieces of double sided paper on vellum paper.
- Adhere lace to the vellum paper and make sure that the edges of the lace are secure to the paper.
- If your lace has a scalloped edge, trim the edges throughout the full length.
- Roll the lacy vellum paper around votive holder. You can either roll the paper with the lace facing inside or outside candle holder.
- Overlap and adhere ends with several pieces of double sided tape.
- Wrap satin ribbon around votive and add bowtie bow to each using tape.
These votives are very cute and simple. With the help of my fiance’s mom, I made about 40 of them for our reception tables. Our venue prohibits the use of candlelight so we’ll use LED flameless votives instead. The LED lights are really expensive but I found a great deal on cudge.net.
The LED fireflies!
For our rehearsal dinner, we will use paper votives to decorate the gift tables. The directions are the same as above without having to apply lace. The paper I used is from Snow & Graham Letterpress.
11 Responses to “Lacy Votives Made Simple”
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing those LED tealights — never seen them before.
For the votives, it’s so much easier to clean up the tealights in metal cups than the ones without. Plus they extinguish themselves and the glass holder won’t pop from the heat of the wick burning down all the way (I have done this, oops). But the ugly metal cups need decorating, so a little lace/ribbon around the glass is a great idea.
Oh cute! I think I’ll do something similar for my cocktail tables. i like your bowties, they remind me of the ones i did for my invites!!
wow..thanks so much for posting this!
OK Bees, listen up - stop posting DIY stuff that I love! My budget can’t handle it!! I have to fight the urge to run to Walmart now 
a very pretty idea! i love the lace you chose~
definitely will bookmark this~
i thought the dandelion print on your paper votives looked familiar..mrs. ladybug used the same paper on her votives!
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Very romantic and pretty. I’ve decorated votive holders and vases using papers before but never thought to use lace. Your lace is beautiful. I think it’d look better without the bow though. Kinda like gilding the lily? Great DIY post.
your bows look so perfect! beautiful job!
They look great! And they’re a perfect project for the LED tealights–but would they pose a mild fire hazard for real tea lights?
I think I would only put the lace/paper around glass candle holders that the little votive cups fit into… (is that what you meant, Miss Bell Pepper? my bad if I missed it)
ahh beautiful!!!
wonderful effort and beautiful effect. Impressed that you are managing to carry theme through to rehearsal dinner too.
Congratulations!
