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Step 1. Gather supplies. Spend about 15 minutes searching your apartment for scissors only to realize that you had already placed them with the rest of your supplies. Smack head on table and do not move on to Step 2 until you have poured yourself a nice, big glass of wine.
There were a few last minute projects that came together the week before the wedding that I wanted to share with you. I had sort of given up on any more DIY projects in the weeks leading up to the wedding, and then I got one final burst of inspiration in the last week.
First, I put together a simple ribbon bouquet from our shower gifts to use at our rehearsal.
My supplies: a bouquet holder, a Styrofoam center, and I used alteration pins to put all the ribbons into the bouquet.
Remember my newfound love affair with ribbons? Ribbon chandeliers, chair ribbons, ribbons on bouquets, ribbon backdrops…ugh, it’s all just so. good. Ribbon-tastic, if you will. Some of you were awesome enough to point out that I didn’t mention ribbon wands—how silly of me to forget those! They’re fun, festive, and make for fabulous photo ops.
Image via Hey Gorgeous
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to DIY Amateur Hour on Weddingbee! Just kidding, it’s not a new feature we are starting up…it’s just me, Miss Petit Four.
Sometimes when I am in the middle of a DIY project, I honestly think I am doing it the completely wrong way and there’s probably a better way to do whatever it is I’m trying to do. Nevertheless, I am here to share with you how I made our table numbers. It was super-easy and pretty basic and I think they came out awesome.
Here is my inspiration picture from Project Wedding…
Image via Project Wedding
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Pinwheel Escort Cards by mshoagie
All of the vines we collected to make the wreaths got my wheels turning about another project that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time now…long before we started planning this wedding. Every Christmas a local nursery hangs these awesome twinkle-light balls from the giant oaks in the entrance to the nursery. They’ve added to the collection over the years, and every time I see them I have one of those DIY, “I could make that” moments.
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I have loved the idea of incorporating flags into a grand exit for a while. They are so cute and playful, and pretty in photos. On top of that, we wanted our “big exit” to be from the church instead of the reception. It’ll be daytime, so we nixed the idea of sparklers. Furthermore, our church does not allow rice, birdseed, or bio-confetti to be tossed because it would end up all over the city sidewalk (and I guess the city doesn’t like that?). Flags seemed like the perfect solution. But what would the flags say?
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| Image by Kate Hayes at L Photographie |
Early in our engagement, MOH MD commented on the fact that I included the word “yay” in every one of my twice(ish) daily e-mails.
[I should note that blogging has really helped cut down on the wedding spam to my bridal party.They thank you.]
Napkins are boring. Usually. All you really need from a napkin is the ability to wipe the food from your face after your gluttonously feast on whatever food is given to you. I would personally be lost without napkins because I’m the messiest eater ever (statistically, that’s probably not true). But who really cares how napkins look? Martha Stewart does.
Image via Martha Stewart Weddings
I found this picture back in 2009 when our wedding was but a twinkle in Mr. Unicycle’s eye.
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I am totally the type of person to see something in a store that a little out of my price range and think to myself, “I could make that.” I like to think that I’m a naturally creative person. Pair that with my design background and I have tons of potential to “do it myself.”
However, I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a DIY bride. When I think “DIY Wedding” I always imagine a completely handmade party… from the food to the decor. These types of events are usually turn out gorgeous, but I know they aren’t for the faint of heart. You have to have the courage to take on all the responsibility that comes with DIY projects, which sometimes includes giving up your time and sanity. Being creative is hard work, especially when you’re working full time, going to school, or just living a normal, busy life.
I am certainly not DIYing everything. Not even close. If there is anything my design background has taught me it’s that I should trust trained designers with a creative vision. For example, I gave the photographer an idea about the feeling I wanted our engagement photos to have, and then let her direct me in location, lighting, and poses. I couldn’t be happier with how they turned out! Had I tried to direct every aspect of the shoot it wouldn’t have been as successful.
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Hive, I know I dragged this out. I know, I teased you about the invitations in several posts. But the wait is over! I would like to invite you to, not only view our invites, but see just how they came to be (bee?)!
[Note, if you want to skip all the romance and get right to the main event, the invite pictures are at the bottom!]
First things first, I would like to give a big shout out to PaperSource, Staples, and Vistaprint. These were the three main vendors we used to put together our invitation suite. All of the unprinted paper came from PaperSource. I found their quality nice, their prices reasonable, and their colors fantastic. The little beige inserts came from Staples. They were fast, cheap and easy. I would not recommend them if you are a stickler for perfection, but if you are a stickler for getting it done adequately, I would say go for it! And last, but not least, I tweaked our save the date design to make our RSVP and had them printed “for free” at Vistaprint.
I used illustrator to lay out all of the text onto 8.5×11 paper in a way that it could be cut into four, with each text block making a square. I really wish I had Miss Eagle’s tutorial beforehand, but after a lot of trial and error I managed to get it pretty square. I then sent the files off to Staples to be printed and cut into fours. The fact that they cut everything was nice because it saved me some time, but not that much time in the end, because each invitation had to be trimmed square afterwards.
Mr. Mole designed our wedding programs, and I have to say that I have a pretty talented fiance (very soon to be husband). We are so thrilled with the results! We hope that our guests will feel the same way when they see them.
Teaser shot
Mr. Mole had a lot of fun with the process of designing and assembling these programs. He was able to incorporate some meaningful details into the design, like our love of crossword puzzles, that really represent our relationship. Mr. Mole hadn’t done any print design work in the last 10+ years—not since his sophomore year of undergrad! He insists that it was actually a pretty easy process, here’s what he did.
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Once upon a time, in my early days as a Bee, I wrote this post about my plans to create a brooch bouquet. I even gave you a little sneak peek at its progress here, but that is where I stopped! Other projects became more of a priority and I never got around to sharing the final product with you before the wedding. It’s your lucky day because I’m sharing now!
This project was indeed a labor of love and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. I’m still so in love with it and I now get to enjoy it every day.
So how about I just show it to you and then tell you how it came to be?
Photo by Stephen Martin Photography
I won’t reinvent the wheel when other bees before me have posted fantastic tutorials on how to make your own, including Mrs. Sloth’s and Mrs. Stripes’, whose post was recently featured on the Helpful Series. I followed Stripes’ method with just a few modifications.
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Check out these great projects hive members have uploaded to Weddingbee’s DIY section! Click on the title of each project for tutorials.
If your project is featured in DIY Friday, you’re eligible for a special Weddingbee badge for your blog or website! See instructions on how to grab the badge here!
Zombie Cake Topper by vctrshaul
Have you noticed a theme with my posts this week? I have shoes on my mind! Today, I want to share a little project related to my bridesmaids’ shoes.
Early on in planning, I knew that I wasn’t going to ask my bridesmaids to wear the same shoe. I figured I would give them a color and let them pick a pair themselves. With luck, the shoes would already be in their closets, but if they did have to buy something, I wanted them to buy something they liked and would wear again.
I wanted something to unify the potentially disparate looks and decided to make a few pairs of chiffon shoe clips.
Photo by Miss Mink
Since it’s DIY Friday, I thought I’d share how I did this project. I should start by saying that I have absolutely no sewing skill. I do not own a sewing machine. My expertise is limited to reattaching buttons to clothing.
In other words, you can do this.
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We were putting some assets together for a campaign, and someone asked me what the Weddingbee font was.
I knew I could ask Mrs. Bee via email, but I know she’s busy being a mom of two (!!!) and blogging away over at Hellobee lately, so I thought I’d take a stab at finding it myself.
I searched a few font libraries, in “comic” and “curly” sections to no avail. Then, I stumbled across Fonts.com’s identify fonts by sight.
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