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You may remember that we’re going to use tissue-paper pomanders for our ceremony. The first one I made was a little bit on the short side, which probably wouldn’t cut it with the garden chairs we will be using. I also used blue tissue paper from Michaels, which was a little lighter than the royal blue I found at Party City—I like it more, and it was cheaper (bonus!).

As you can see in the picture, this pom is much shorter than the others.

After finishing the eight pomanders that we will need for the aisle, I still had this first “trial” one lying around. It took a while to make (practice definitely makes perfect with those pomanders), and I didn’t want to just throw it out…hmmmm, what to do with it?? After a couple of days of the pomander hanging from our dining room chair, staring at me and saying “Miss Elephant, please don’t throw me out,” I came up with an idea for it!

We will be doing a sand ceremony during our ceremony, and there will be a little table set up inside of the gazebo for this. Instead of spending money on flowers to spruce up the table, I decided that we could use my “trial” pomander!

I used materials that I had around the apartment:

• Vase (thanks to my co-worker who gave me birthday flowers)
• Glass marbles (picked up at Michaels when they were on sale for $1)

I filled the vase up with a mixture of blue and green marbles, turned the pomander over, stuck the ribbon part into the vase, and then sprinkled a few marbles around the vase, and voilà! We’ve got instant decoration and a way to use my too-short-but-still-cute tissue pomander.

Were you able to make use of any mistakes with your DIY projects?