Weddingbee Blog

I had a few special people that I wanted to remember on my wedding day who are no longer with us. I’ve lost three of my grandparents and I lost my aunt about five years ago. In some ways the loss of my aunt during wedding planning was particularly tough. She LOVED weddings. She was also my Godmother and I remember one day years ago that she proclaimed to me that she would host a bridal shower for me when it was my turn to get married. Knowing that she was missing our wedding was difficult.

I was inspired by Mrs. Crab Cake’s post on bouquet charms using Scrabble tiles. I bought the DIY Scrabble tile pendant kit from Annie Howes.

The kit came with almost everything I needed—Scrabble tiles with letters for the first names of my grandparents and aunt, glaze and heavy duty glue. I did pick up a different kind of glue to stick my pictures to the tiles though. I printed off some of my favourite pictures on regular paper on my colour laser jet printer.

I added a dollop of glue to the back…

And spread it with a foam brush…

With the picture stuck on the tile I used an X-Acto knife to trim…

Once dry I added the glaze to the picture on the front of the tile, using a toothpick to deal with any bubbles.

The glaze was milky at first…

But then dried clear.

I used the heavy duty glue in the kit to glue the silver plated balls to the back.

I loved how these turned out. So simple.

How did you decide to remember loved ones at your wedding?