Weddingbee Blog

I’m taking a break from discussing our journey to finding the perfect invitations to announce an exciting project checked off of our to do list! Remember those old dusty frames we got for really cheap? Well, we finally had our way with them!

Check out the before and after:

I’m in love these frames and in love with the idea of using them as our centerpieces! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, check out our table mock-up. We’re planning to place these in the center of our tables with milk glass vases on them; but first, we had to clean them up!

We started by laying them all out on our strip of fabric. I didn’t have a lot because I bought it on sale months ago (and had no idea what we’d use it for), and checked to make sure we would have enough. We had just the right amount! Whew!

Mr. B pulled the backs off each of the frames and Mama Brooch started cleaning them. If you saw where we got them, you’d understand why a good wipe down was in order!

Then we took the picture from inside the frame, laid it on the fabric, and cut a covering. We did all of this on an ironing board because we ironed the fabric, too.

Once the fabric was ready, we laid the picture down on newspaper and got ready to apply our adhesive!

We sprayed the adhesive right onto the picture, waited about 30 seconds, and attached the fabric. The circular frames were a bit of a challenge, but the square ones were easy peasy!

We were so proud of ourselves, you guys!

This was a big project and we had finally tackled it (we had fabric to spare, too)!

It wasn’t until our planner came to visit that we realized something was missing—cohesiveness. She pointed out that the frames were all different shapes and therefore needed to be the same color. She suggested that we either spray paint them all gold or paint them all white!



We were so nervous at first! We had just enough frames and knew once we started painting, there was no turning back! I’ll admit, I was a little stressed over the whole thing, but Mama Brooch came to the rescue. She painted them one day while I was at work and I about fell over when I got home, ’cause THEY’RE BEAUTIFUL!

The whole idea seemed like a gamble in the beginning, but they turned out better than I could have ever imagined! I absolutely cannot wait to see it all come together on our wedding day!

Did you tackle any really big DIY projects?

Did you take risks? How did it turn out?