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Our next contestant in the DIY project contest is Tricia, with seven different entries! Check out all of her submissions below and then vote for your favorite.
Table arrangements: The tables have DIY arrangements (which we made with just sunflowers for the sake of simplicity) in a vase with river rocks, and the table signs we designed, printed, and mounted. Probably silly, but one of my favorite things is the grapevine/wicker ball that holds our signs. We glued the balls to grapevine napkin rings (to make the bottom flat) and then used kitchen shears to cut a slit in the top and nestle the signs in (it’s a snug fit!) and voila!
Save-the-dates
Programs - The Programs are 11 x 17 movie posters. The bottom credits are everyone who is involved and a little note of whats to come. The program posters were inspired by our save the dates - which read like a movie script since my fiance used to work in film…and left it and LA to move to Chicago with me. The movie posters also have a tree - which we’ll be married under, a dog - that my fiance used to draw on all the letters he wrote to me (we fell in love through letters since I was in Europe the first month + we were together)…thus the mailbox, and the bird is in memory of
my grandmother.
Invitations: I designed all of the invitation components and had them printed by a local printer friend. The paper is all PaperSource, including the pocket folder. We went through about a thousand designs for the front of the invite, but ultimately settled on the favor tags embellished with an eyelet, with corners rounded by my dear fiance.
Escort Cards: Perhaps not the most original, but (still handy) votive escort card. Probably the one thing I wonder exactly WHAT I was thinking about!
Cupcake tree: My Fiance worked in model making for movie in LA - so he loves to make all sorts of crazy models. For our cakes we’re having my signature pumpkin spice cake made into cupcakes - the “Cupcake Tree” is the holder for all the yummy delights. The finished piece will be sanded and stained a nice cherry color. Believe it or not that puppy holds more than 120 big ol’ cupcakes. There is also a little dog and a mailbox for the bottom left (like the posters) and another tray for the cake we’ll cut.
Favors: We have CD soundtracks - CD favor pictured, sparklers with matches, and little bags of taffy with thank you quotes at each setting - sad these aren’t here - but everyone gets a different quote.
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If you’d like to submit a DIY project, please send it to guest@weddingbee.com. See full contest details here.
How did you clear the copyrights for the CD favors?
The CD’s have a legal note in italics at the end “For personal use only. Not for distribution, duplication, or sale without express prior consent or artists or their representation”. My laywer friend wrote it for me…looks like the movie stuff too…
What an unbelievably fantastic job on everything!
I generally find cupcake trees kind of ‘meh,’ but I LOVE this one! Very original.
You have done such a wonderful job of unifying everything under a film/media and tree theme, Tricia! Everything is so beautiful, it was hard to choose just one! The poster got my vote; so original and creative!
She needs to win the whole darn contest. Martha who?!
Would love to know what fonts you used on the bottom of the movie poster and generally how you did it!
I love you votive escort cards! Can you please post instructions on how to make them? Thanks!
I love the cupcake tree! It’s so original, and goes so well with your theme!
Haha…I just had the wedding weekend from near-hell so you guys are awesome - thanks! Ok - the poster was done in Illustrator but I used all free fonts (where I could) - the general stuff is Mrs. Eaves but the poster bottom is Ultra Condensed Sans Serif from dafont.com. Almost all the illustrations are compilations and manipulations (and a few of my own) from istockphoto.com (on the poster the tree, the leaves, the bird, the dog, the letter, and the mailbox are all different elements I just put together into one image).
For the poster we used some movie-inspired titles some not. So, I just referenced stuff I could find and some people, say my mom’s friend who is coming from Australia to help got called “Production Assistant” but others like “Best Man” just stayed that way.
If you really wanted you could probably design the poster in something like PowerPoint with text boxes.
There are lots of places that mention how to do the votive holders but, of course, I devised my own method. I traced the outside of the votive onto a page to get the form - cut the form out of a heavy piece of cardboard and then used the cardboard as a guide. I printed 3 per page (on vellum), cut them out with the guide, then tried a few ways of attaching - I tried a sticker maker (Xyron machine) but it looked awful - so in the end the best way was just a piece of double sided tape where the ends come together in the back. Finally I put double sided tape on a piece of ribbon and wrapped it around the bottom to finish the bottom - there are 4 ribbon colors to indicate meal choices for the wait staff. Although I used Illustrator you could easily do it in Word or PowerPoint, or any other program like that.
Good luck DIY-ing!
Do you have any pictures of the cupcake tree in action with cupcakes? I bet that looks amazing in use.
awesome job on all the projects btw tricia! i love how you kept the same motifs throughout. 
so this is what happened: oooh, that poster looks great…those invites are pretty, i like those the best…wait, a cupcake tree?! AWESOME!
so i voted for the tree. seriously. i want that.
the cupcake tree is seriously beautiful, and so our your innovative invites. really fresh thinking there.
i was wondering with the cd favors– the holder/sleeve– did you print directly onto it or attach a label? they came out great! can you tell me where you got the sleeves?
The CD sleeve is a Paper Source enclosure (diagonal folder in luxe cream) - and the front is a stamp - a big stamp. We got it from addictedtorubberstamps.com - granted since it’s so big you have to kinda smash a regular stamp pad all over it to get the ink right, but, once you get going it’s pretty fast! I was just excited they had a tree with birds in it and it solved any label problems. We might use it for our thanks you cards too if we run out of the ones we have.
How cool are the tree and poster?? Kudos to both of you!
ummm . . . good job! I’d feel lucky to be invited to a wedding with such fantastic care and detail.
My question to you . . . where did you buy your little vine balls? I’ve been trying to source them myself, with only limited luck!
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