Liz & Ara
What do-it-yourself projects did you do? Centerpieces: I wanted something a little non-conventional for our centerpieces so we decided on using mason jars for the base. After visiting my Dad’s house and finding several blue tinted mason jars I was definitely set on using them instead of the regular clear color. A friend helped me find the remaining number of blue mason jars that we needed. Then we placed river rock stones in the bottom to secure our flowers. We finished off the jars with stems of the green cymbidium orchids. We also had a few white candles lit around the table to give a little romantic flare.
Ring bearer book: The ring bearer book was my pride and joy of my DIY projects. I knew from the beginning that I didn’t want the traditional pillow to place our rings on so I ventured to find a new idea. While scanning wedding blogs I stumbled upon someone who had done a ring bearer book with a secret hole inside to tie the rings. I found a book at a thrift store, then created a cut out window in the middle of the pages using an exact-o knife. I secured ribbon in the middle of the pages to tie the rings. I covered the book in brown paper and then decorated the outside with some patterned paper, ribbon and our initials. The day of the wedding we tied our wedding rings in the book for my nephew to walk down the isle with.
Guest book: Since we had a fairly small wedding—only close friends and family, we decided we wanted a way to have people write a more heartfelt message than just their names in a guest book. We picked up a frame from Hobby Lobby with a matte thick enough for people to write a small message around the border. We placed one of our engagement photos in the center and now have it hung in our first home together. It’s great to
glance at it and see not only the people’s names that attended our special day, but also read a little message that they wrote to us.
Wedding information on business card: We designed a business card to go along with our wedding invitations that listed our wedding website for our guests to see when opening the invitation. We didn’t want to place our wedding website directly on our wedding invitation. We felt like it was a tad bit too cheesy to list it directly on the invitation. This gave us a way to direct people to our website in order to get more information on our registries, information on the couple, hotel information and information about our favorite things to do in Wichita.
What advice do you have for other brides? My biggest advice would be to remember it’s about the marriage and not the wedding. You want to be able to look back on your special day and know that you did it all for you and your husband and not for your family/friends. It should be all about you as a couple and not impressing anyone. The planning can get pretty time consuming and sometimes cause strain in your relationship. Make a point during the planning/engagement to have days where you don’t talk about the wedding planning and have it just be about growing in your relationship with one another.
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