Do It Yourself Weddings: DIY Wedding Flags

Do It Yourself Weddings: DIY Wedding Flags



DIY Fans for Your Wedding Day



Do It Yourself Paper For Body of Fan
Courtesy of http://www.daisy-days.com/




Do It Yourself Handles, also available in White Plastic
Courtesy of http://www.daisy-days.com/

An quick and easy DIY project for your wedding is to make your wedding progams or menus on a wedding fan. These are particularly useful if you're getting married in the hot weather and your venue or church isn't air conditioned. Kits with paper and handle are available and you can make this as complex or as simple as your like. Add calligraphy if you want to spend hours on them, but for those of us who want them completed without angst, just print them with a pretty font on your home printer. I've included photos of the DIY items, as well as some ready made fans that you might want to use for inspiration. A project that is quick, easy and useful, what more could you want?


Ready-made Fan for inspiration
Courtesy of http://www.daisy-days.com/



Ready-made Fan for inspiration
Courtesy of http://www.daisy-days.com/


Ready-made Fan for inspiration




Candles -- Easy DIY Centerpieces

Photos and ideas courtesy of: http://www.surroundings.com/

Surroundings.com offers you a large selection of floating candle kits and craft items needed to make DIY centerpieces for your wedding. Candles offer an inexspensive alternative to large floral arrangements and add to the ambiance of your day. This is a go to place for candle kits, accessories, and centerpiece ideas for you wedding day.














Directions to Your Wedding--An Easy to Make Sign

Photo and idea from http://www.seedfloral.com/winter-wedding.html

Any sign is something any bride can easily make ahead of time to direct the guests to the location of an oudoor wedding. A simple board (available from your craft store), some wooden letters (if you're very handy or your fiance is, cut your own) these can also be purchased from your craft store. Some paint to coordinate with your colors, and add some flowers. Put the board on a stake, attach the flowers, and you're ready to go! Another signature project for your wedding. You can also make other signs the same way.


Cupcake Topiary Tree

Photograph courtesy of Food Network Magazine/Taken by Tara Donne


Considering using cupcakes in lieu of cake at your wedding? Why not have them do double duty as decorations as well? This Cupcake Topiary Tree was featured in Food Network Magazine in their May 2010 issue.

To make your Cupcake Topiary Tree you'll need:

1 Terracotta pot

Floral Foam

12 inch floral foam ball

12 inch dowel

Brown Paint

Pink Paint

Mini cupcake liners 24

Straight Pins

Toothpicks

Directions:

Fill the terracotta pot with floral foam, and insert a 12 inch dowel or thick stick in foam. If you're using a dowel you'll need to paint it brown before placing it. Paint a 12 inch floral foam ball pink and let dry. This can take an hour, be sure it's all the way dry. Push the ball down onto the dowel that's already been anchored into the pot. Using straight pins and cupcake papers to plot your cupcake design, then place real cupcakes in each spot removing the pins and papers used for plotting as you go. Attach cupcakes using 3 toothpicks poked halfway into the bottom of each cupcake and press them into the ball.