Wedding Blog

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.

1. Measure the length around a tea votive holder and cut vellum paper and lace a few inches longer than the length of the votive.
2. Apply several pieces of double sided paper on vellum paper.
3. Adhere lace to the vellum paper and make sure that the edges of the lace are secure to the paper.
4. If your lace has a scalloped edge, trim the edges throughout the full length.
5. Roll the lacy vellum paper around votive holder. You can either roll the paper with the lace facing inside or outside candle holder.
6. Overlap and adhere ends with several pieces of double sided tape.
7. 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.