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Three weeks before our wedding, I stumbled across a great idea for a DIY wedding gift on one of my favorite wedding blogs (aside from The ‘bee, of course!), OnceWed. The project is a pocket square (aka handkerchief) with a message to the groom. In the tutorial, Laurie used an excerpt from The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear:

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”

Although this project would be easy to personalize with whatever content you choose, this particular passage struck me as perfect for our seaside wedding. And the price for this DIY project was right as well!

Here are the materials I used:

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• Cotton Pocket Square: $1.10
• Embroidery Floss (two colors): $.65
• Embroidery Hoop - $1.49
• Embroidery Needles - $1.49

(Make sure the pocket square is cotton. I found mine at Men’s Wearhouse in a package of 12.)

Fast forward two weeks. It’s the night before our flight to the Cayman Islands. I had the materials, but due a bad bout with bronchitis, I hadn’t started the project! And never mind that I had never embroidered anything before! That’s when my cousin Susan stepped in. She is a knitting/embroidery queen and offered to help me “start” the project so I could work on our Scrapbook Table Numbers. Score! I directed her to the OnceWed tutorial so she could get the project started:

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Before I knew it, she had finished the pocket square! And she even added a little moon—so perfect! Here it is, pressed and folded on the wedding day:

Photo by The Nichols

On the morning of the wedding, I sent one of my bridesmaids to bring Mr. K his pocket square. Joe Simon was filming the guys getting ready, and filmed Mr. K reading it out loud. He put the audio clip at the end of our wedding movie trailer and I love how it turned out!

Have any of your “DIY” projects turned in to “DISE” (delegate it to someone else)?