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Ten points if you get that reference! And if you don’t, I strongly urge you to play the video below and educate yourselves!

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Anywho. Remember my obsession with topiaries? Since we’re getting married in a garden, these beauties fit in perfectly with our decor. We’re using these place card holders:

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When our guests first walk into our reception, they will be greeted with a table filled with these place card holders. We also wanted the table to have some sort of banner on it with larger topiaries, like this:

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We decided to go the DIY route for the larger topiaries. Which means…time for another tutorial! Yay!

Materials

• Moss-covered balls (you could get Styrofoam balls and cover them with moss, but I found moss-covered balls at Michaels)
• Two thick wooden dowels (or one long dowel and a saw)
• Brown paint
• Two terra cotta pots
• Dried moss (to fill the pots)
• Ribbon/rope/baker’s twine
• Card stock

Instructions

Most dowels come in that awful sawdust color, so the first step in this process is to paint them a more natural bark shade.

Next, fill the pots with moss and place the dowels in the pots.

As you can see from the picture, it might be a good idea to do this project outside! The moss shed, and I got lots of dirt everywhere. That would not have been fun to clean out of carpet!

Next, poke a hole in each ball with scissors. This will make room for the dowel.

Stick the moss-covered ball on the dowel and twist to secure.

For the banner, I printed out our names, with the letters spread out. I used my 2″ tag punch to punch out the letters. Then, I taped each tag to some baker’s twine and tied each end to a “trunk.”

Oh hi, Lion Corgi!

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The entire project took about 7 minutes…woot! How has your wedding’s setting inspired your DIY projects?