The DIY Wedding Thread

Leylauk

Louise - I love the table plan, am def going to do my own now and have been inspired by you ideas.

Bluemeanie - that cake is so cute and so much fun! When your is done, you must post some pics lol

*Louise*

bluemeanie999 wrote: »

my MOH lives in Arizona in USA and she is currently making all the decorations for our cake (we are just buying plain cakes and she is decorating them when she comes over) - our cake is having personalised things on them and will look similar to this

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo-51971.html

she asked us things to add to the cake which are personal to us (within reason) - I just love this cake design

That is such a great idea - will add a lovely element of humour as well, it's really good of her to make the decorations for you - can't wait to see your finished personalised one!!:j

kelda_shelton

can anyone direct me to the cheap wedding favours thread? I cant find it for the life of me!

*Louise*

svjenni wrote: »

How much did the stuff cost - how many blocks did you need?

Did you get any help/inspiration to get you started?

D'you mean the Fimo clay?

I got quite a lot of the stuff, but I am planning on having enough to make 5 people. Got large blocks of white, flesh, red & black, then loads of little blocks of various colours.

Think it cost around £40 for the clay. What made me decide to try my own was a thread on here - someone had posted a link to a toppers site, around £100 for a pair of figures (fantastic stuff!) and I wanted them but couldn't justify that amount, so I thought I would give it a bash.

*Louise*

kelda_shelton wrote: »

can anyone direct me to the cheap wedding favours thread? I cant find it for the life of me!

Here you go

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1311797&page=4

It had dropped down to page 3

snugglepants

*Louise* wrote: »

Oh wow - really :j
Yes, that's where I ordered my clay, I'm so pleased you are enjoying it

I never thought bout using foil as a stuffing, that's a great tip - would use much less clay as well. I just used clay for the lot, but your way would be cheaper.

When attaching the heads I put a cocktail stick through the body and spiked the head on for more security (also done the same with OH's legs)

How are you getting on with the skirt? I found that the hardest part to roll out and keep flat because of the expanse - think it took me 3 attempts

Yep! So thank you very much The foil thing is fairly good but don't roll it too thin as it can crack Also had to wrap foil around the foil, as when scrunched it's "prickly". Yep, I've used cocktail sticks for both our heads and his legs - you really do need that extra stability! well, my skirt has been fairly easy to do as the train is short and wrapping it around the foil was easy (made the shape of my body so just have to ease it into the shape - easier said than done for the waist!) - the boobs are the worst bit, and making the flesh shoulders and above (well, easy enough to make, a different story trying to meld it to the top of the dress :rolleyes:) Feeling ill atm so don't feel up to doing it, but need to crack on with it!

MsChazzer

ecoelle, your envelopes are gorgeous, that's really effective!

I bought DIY Wedding by Kelly Bare and The DIY Bride by Khris Cochran which have lots of ideas and how-tos. I think they've been more inspiration for me as I haven't actually made anything from them, but they are lovely books and appealed to me more than a lot of the traditional wedding books I got out of the library.

*Louise*

Anyone got any new stuff to share?? :j

ecoelle

Hi all, i've just finished tea and cake mwith my friend who is also getting married next year. We are struggling slightly as the venue we have chosen has a date free, we have booked it already and my friend now is thinking of getting married on the same day...aaarrgg! Anyway, have not done anything else this week towards the wedding other than looking at beautiful dresses online! I am looking at some websites which may be of interest to you guys
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http://www.bridesdressrevisited.com/
http://www.preloved.co.uk/

Thought they might be of use for anyone looking at cutting costs by going second hand!

ecoelle

ok, don't know what happened there but it should have said

https://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/index.html

hope that works!