I am attempting to preserve my bouquet to use the following day for our second reception. A little bit of wishful thinking? Maybe so… if anything, I have a back up one anyway. I have plenty of vases, ribbons, and adorable book cloth (that I bought a long time ago from Daiso) that I threw together for a resting/hydrating place for my bouquet during the reception. I want to love it and protect it as long as I can since I won’t be drying it afterwards.


Ooh to the aah aah aah, I lurve it and will keep it to use later on in our home. Mr. CB is really going to hate cherry blossoms after the wedding. It’s super overload! LOL.
I had tons of leftover votives and didn’t want to waste em, so of course, I created another project for myself… insert *Mr. CB shaking his head*. I scoured the net for some easy tutorials to help me in my quest to spice up my votive candles that are tapered. A simple, straight 1.5″x 4″ was not going to cut it, it was going to connect really weird if you wanted it smooth against your glass. But I came up with na - dah. Then genius strikes again! Wah - bam!
I have to say I drool worthy love ‘em tons. I wrapped up all the bunked etched votives, NOTHING goes to waste, and wrapped up all the leftovers too. I left it up to my coordinator to use them in the room for our cocktail hour and anywhere else she saw fit. Lookie, more splash of CB patterns and I put more use to my LARGE rolls of ribbons! Me smoochies.
And girls, because I love y’alls, Imma share my how-to! HI FIVE YO!
HOW TO:
1) I created the template in Word.
2) I measured the circumference of the circle so I knew how far apart I’d need to draw my lines.
3) I drew slightly diagonal lines, tapering inward.
4) Then to get the most difficult curve for the votive, to make sure it tapered perfectly… I just drew two ovals, connecting the two sides of the ovals to the tips of the diagonal lines.
5) Next I trimmed the paper cutting around the top of the two circles and two diagonal lines. And voila, wrap it around the votive, and perfecto fit!
As simple as that!

I changed the lines to a faint gray, so that you could use it as a guideline, it may show a little on the inside but it’s what’s outside that matters! I didn’t bother to go back and try to draw over the line - if you’d like to mess around with the template you can download it here!
Happy wrapping away!
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