Details: Wedding DIY
Posted
Sunday, August 17, 2008 10:19 AM
We did a lot of DIY or low budget alternatives for things at our wedding. I've already blogged about many of them, but I'd like to share more about them since I've had quite a few people ask me questions about some of our day of details.
The things we DIYed for the wedding are:
I'll admit, I've been addicted to the Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine, it's even been real difficult for me not to buy since the wedding. She's got such great DIY projects, some easy, some real difficult and a lot of her projects can be use for non-wedding projects as well. I used her as inspiration for our programs and also our tissue paper pom poms which my photographer unknowingly took a photo of the two of them together.
And here's how the pom poms looked lining the aisle:
We did a lot of DIY paper items. When making our invitations, I bought a reem of card stock at Staples to print them on and had so much card stock left over that I was able to use if for our favor tags, the monogram on our programs, menu cards and also for the place cards. It cost me about $15 and I still have left over card stock. I'm not sure if I ever shared pictures of my invitations on my blog, at least I can't find them on it right now, so I'll share them possibly for the second time.
The RSVP card:
And using some of the remaining card stock (and a few other materials), we were able to make these:
Probably one of the best detail shots we have of the wedding showing our DIY projects is this one:
I left this picture bigger in hopes that you can see the details. Here you can see one of our table numbers, our favor boxes with our DIY favor tags, and also the "table runners" we got for super cheap! My photog must have gotten to the table before my DOC had a chance to set out the menu cards.
The table runners we used were a great deal I found out about from another May 08 Knottie. I got them from Linen Stock.com. I actually bought their Peau Satin chair sashes for $2 each (before shipping). The best part of it, I was able to sell them after the wedding and recover about half the money we spent on them.
The last DIY detail I have to share for now, is the gum drop toipary. It was a really easy DIY and lots of people thought it was cute. We only have 1 or 2 people try to eat the gum drops, despite our little sign asking people not to eat it.
