Weddingbee Blog

For our wedding at Viking Heaven (AKA, The Barn at Valhalla—oh wow, I haven’t even posted about that. How backasswards of me!), doors need to be adorned. OK, maybe not need. But this is a craft I could do wayyyyyyy in advance, and it seemed do-able for even this sometimes craft-impaired bride. So I ordered all that ribbon and got to cutting and tying, following directions from The Long Thread.

For the step-by-step directions,  head here.

See?

Ignore the green foam wreath part sticking out. That shouldn’t be there.

Helpful tips:

1. Cut a bunch of ribbon, then go ahead and use Fray Check to stop the fraying BEFORE you tie. It’s way easier than going around afterward, trimming and fray checking.

2. Some of you may feel like when you tie the knot, there is not possibly enough ribbon to make a bow. It may SEEM like this, to some of you. Not me, of course. It certainly did not take me multiple tries and mutiple glasses of wine and multiple episodes of Gilmore Girls to get the first bow tied correctly. I also didn’t cut a bunch of ribbon four inches too short, either. No sir-ee. But some of you might struggle. So be careful when cutting ribbon to ensure it is the right length and, um, just keep trying to make the bow. Once you make one, you’re golden!

3. As you may have noticed above, a bit of my wreath is showing. Oopsy! When tying the bows, you kinda have to have the ribbon overlap on the back part of the wreath in order to have the knots close enough to cover the wreath in the front. Usually you can tie the knot and then just slip one ribbon over another in the back.

Cost per wreath:

Ribbon: 24 yards x $0.28 = $6.72

Wreath: I don’t have the exact receipt, but I think it was about $5 at Michaels, and I had a 40%-off coupon, which would make it = $3 (approximately).

TOTAL COST per wreath = about $10

And since I’m making four wreaths, that’s $40 total!

Not so shabby, if I do say so myself!

Have you embarked on a DIY project to adorn some doors, or something equally “only brides would do this”? And…what do you think of my wreath???