Anna & Jeremy
Flag bunting: I bought lots of different purple fabrics that had white accents, and sewed them into bunting. This project took the longest and was the most time consuming. This project was the most rewarding when I finished it because the flags were all over the venue.
Place cards and menus: I also made little placeholders for each seat. We found some elegant and, most importantly, free, filigree borders for the place cards from a wedding blog. Jeremy typeset each of them with some free fonts we found online. Each person had their own tiny little pot filled with moss, and a little branch sticking out with their name on a piece of paper that I had dyed with tea.
Flowers:My mom volunteered to make the flowers after I showed her how to make one. We bought large card stock in all different colors for the petals. She also decided to make lots of tiny tissue paper flowers that decorated all the tables. We also did all the real floral decorations ourselves. The day before the wedding we went to the downtown Los Angeles Flower Market. This was one of our biggest money saving ideas. We saved tons of money and Anna’s mother volunteered to arrange the flowers we bought. All the vases were bought at thrift stores over the course of about a year.
Ceremony: We decided to perform the old Celtic ritual of hand- fasting during our ceremony so I made the ribbons myself. One was designed in cream and green with a tree, and the other purple and grey with a heart. I also sewed paper circles to hang around us during the ceremony.
Favor: We did a candy bar and we bought all of our own favorite candy. The bowls were bought at thrift shops and we made the signs for the candy ourselves. The candy itself was bought wholesale from
candywarehouse.com.
Boutonnières: I bought materials that I thought fit with our color and nature theme and went with it. We had tiny branches, feathers, buttons, and paper. I just combined all different things, and velvet ribboned them together and they turned out looking great.
Bouquet toss: I made a bouquet out of artificial flowers and filled it with gift cards to our favorite restaurants and lottery tickets. We wanted the winner to really feel like they had won something!
What advice do you have for other brides? Make sure to keep a list of all the things you want to do, and when you need to accomplish them by. That really helped me stay on task and make sure that I didn’t have to rush at the last minute. I also made sure that I only did projects that I thought were really interesting to me. There were times that my husband thought that I was taking on too much, but I felt like the projects were fun, and I didn’t mind that I was spending all my free time doing them. I literally used every moment for 14 months making decorations, but it was totally worth it. I became a better sewer and crafter and I learned to manage my time. Something that was really important was allowing others to do what they wanted to help. I envisioned making 5 or 6 large paper flowers, but my mom wanted to make more, so I let her. We ended up with over 40 flowers and it was beautiful.
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