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With wedding details being all the rage, it's easy to go online and find cool, cute items like drink stirrers, coasters and table number signs to jazz up your wedding look. But sometimes the best things in life are free (and involve a glue stick). Here are some of my favorite DIY wedding details. For this wedding, the bride and groom created a graphic of their silhouette and made tags, labels and more to decorate their cupcake display, to alert guests to the after-party location, and to encourage them to take a fan. Thanks to Karen Mordechai for sending these photos of Marlene and Todd's grand fete.
Sometimes paper and patterns can make all the difference. For this wedding, the bride and groom created stencil cut outs for their table numbers and then used a patterned paper in the background. For their guestbook, they utilized a rainbow palette of note cards to create a dazzlingly bright display. For the craftier bride, consider utilizing stamping and silkscreening to add your wedding motif to items like menu cards or programs. For this Brooklyn wedding, the couple had stamps created with images of the nearby Manhattan Bridge and stamped their hearts out of the menu cards and programs. Are you adding any DIY elements to your ceremony or reception?
Posted by: wendyloohoo| August 12, 2008 at 03:41 PM I was MOH in a beach-themed wedding this past weekend. DIY touches included: I was going to write, "Unless you have endless time and money..." but I will revise that to say: Even if you have endless time and money, the details do not make a bit of difference. What matters is that you are legally joined with your husband and that your nearest and dearest are there as witnesses and to help you celebrate. Good food, wine, music - great. Monogrammed swizzle sticks - silly. We did quite a few DIY things, but because of my desire to NOT have a "matchy-matchy" reception. We worked with the caterer to provide serving dishes from our families and passed the food family-style, I made my own programs, etc. But one of the very BEST DIY ideas we had (that could be done by anyone whether you want to DIY or not) was we "named" our tables instead of numbering them, and we named them for loved ones. Some people sat at tables "In Honor of . . ." close relatives; some sat at tables "In Memory of . . ." family and friends who had passed on. My original idea was that we'd also have small pictures of the person the table was named for with either me or my husband, and a little description of the person and the relationship, to tell others why we were honoring that person/why they were/are special . . . but since we were moving at the same time and both working, we ran out of time. Still, many people enjoyed being seated at a table "In Honor of Mary Smith, our God-Daughter" or "In Memory of Nancy Jones, Viki's Aunt" . . .especially those who were close to those named on the table (like Mary's mom, and Nancy's kids/my cousins). An easy DIY idea . . .and if you don't want to DIY, still do-able, and a lovely way to honor those you love. |
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I did my Programs (pretty standard really), favors/place cards, and unity candle. We printed our own invites from a print at home kit, but added personal touches by being very specific about the font, size, and color and repeating it on all our printed materials. We also customized the invite because there were no inner envelopes so we used belly bands that we made on our own.