The DIY Wedding Thread

*Louise*

Had loads of easter eggs sitting about, and I'm not about to let the kids gorge themselves silly on them, so I put a few of the Cadbury's ones to good use:








Cost £2.00 for the rose shaped mould (good old ebay again) cellophane bags are left over from christmas crafts and the rose/ribbon are from other wedding stuff.

I'm going to put these in with the kids' gift bags as I already have adult favours. Might make a little label with their names on to attach.

debs2327

those are lovely xx

Leylauk

They look great! Really good idea and being Cadburys etc they will taste great too.

Nat82 - my colour scheme is fuschia and ivory (with men wearing grey suits).

nat82

Off to Hobbycraft today to get stuff to make my invitations, place cards, Order of Service and Menu's. Going to try and make the bridesmaids Tiaras myself, not sure if I can get stuff like that from Hobbycraft but if not I can get it from internet.

I'm VERY excited! lol!

Will let you all know how I get on!

N xx

Jem8472

We have made lots of things for our wedding. Including invites, little menus to remind people what they ordered.

We have also made a wedding postbox. We bought the box off ebay but decorated it in the same theme of our invites. It has come out really well.





A pic of one of the invites we made. We made a simpler version for the evening invites.



Edit: In the finished invites there is a flight sticking our of the other side of the heart. Just noticed is missing in this pic

jeski

mshelsbels they look stunning, and quite easy to make. Not too sure what you mean by templates though. I got some plain exercise books from WHSmiths for about 80p each and did a proper book binding job on them. Then I put a stiff cardboard cover on it, used some card of a box a toy was packed in. Then padded the front with some foam and covered it with leather look paper. Made a bead charm to do on the front and voila.

rinroo

Jem8472 - They look fab, well done!

*Louise*

Jem - those look fantastic!!

nat82

Jem - they look great! Well done!

I went to Hobbycraft yesterday and I bought the black card for the invitations, beads and wire for the tiaras (just enough to do one until I see how it turns out!) and the buttonhole, fuschia organza ribbon for the buttonholes and a book with tiara designs.

I couldn't get fuschia card so I have ordered some from good old E-Bay. I also ordered the bands for the tiaras from there too as it was much cheaper. Today I'm going to order the crystals for the invitations from Ebay.

Busy, busy, busy times ahead!

Hope you're all well!

N xxx

snugglepants

mshelsbels wrote: »

Snugglepants / jeski
Can you tell me where you're getting your guestbook templates from - also, what kind of materials are you using?

I'm looking at doing something a bit like this on each table, but instead of leaving it blank for guests to write stuff, we're writing a little anecdote about all our guests!

Thank you,
Helen

Hiya,

I was doing a mini guestbook for each table, made from good quality card for the outside and good (thinner) card for the pages, but ended up ruining several because I was using glue (making completely from scratch) to stick the bits together. I've now ordered a blank scrapbook (big one) to decorate instead, as I don't think I have the will to go through the painstaking process again for the little ones probably would if it was for someone else - how silly is that?
I'll let you know what i end up deciding to do.


I need to get my camera out at some point too.....