Many brides nowadays love to get crafty, and what better way is there to add a little personal stye to your wedding? For all you perfectionists out there, take control over your wedding day by making your own decorations. Whether you’re an army of one or you’d rather call in the troops for help, clear some space off that table, desk or floor and get ready to start creating! Here are a few ideas to get you started:
Message Garlands:
String up paper hearts or fabric flags and set out a few pens. They’ll serve several purposes: [1] It will make a great wedding decoration and [2] Your wedding guests can leave you messages of love, encouragement, advice and best wishes. [3] You can take it home and hang it on your own wall as a reminder of your celebration of love!
Block Prints:
Decorate your reception tables with these easy block prints. Simply choose any scrapbook paper you love and print simple words like those you see in the photo below on them, then glue them to blocks of wood. For a similar idea, try attaching photos of you and your fiance to the wood blocks, then adding letter stickers to spell out words like love.
Leaf & Heart Clips:
Attach paper cutouts of leaves and hearts (or any other shapes you want) to clothespins or other small clips. You can use them to close your party favor bags or clip them to small sticks as cupcake toppers. They also make great seating card and table number holders.
Paper Ball Ornaments:
Cut out 20 circles from various scrapbook papers, score the paper circles in three equal lengths forming a triangle shape (see the photo below), then fold along the score marks and glue all 20 circles together to make these ball ornaments. Use them as centerpieces at your reception tables or clip a stiff paper to the top and they can double as table numbers. Don’t forget to add a ribbon at the top if you want to hang them from tents, arbors, patio covers, trees or any other place you can think of.
Matchbook Mints:
These are super easy to make. You can churn out a bunch in a short time and they’re easy on the wallet! Simply cut out a rectangular piece of fun card stock or scrapbook paper, score it, fold it and staple the individually wrapped mints inside. Cut or tear one end for added pizzazz. Use them as party favors or write names and table numbers on them to double as seating cards. You could also add quotes or a special message from the couple just by running the paper through the printer before you cut out the rectangles.
Have any do-it-yourself wedding decorations you would like to share? Send ideas and photos to info@artofweddingspdx.com.
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