10 DIY Wedding Lighting Ideas! Lighting is a great way to set the mood for your wedding.
I love when couples get creative and use lighting techniques that are rather uncommon. Lights can brighten up your venue or give your event a cozy romantic feel. As you might remember, one of my favorite ways to achieve intimate lighting is by using string lights (see this post). But there are plenty of other ways to use lighting to give your wedding a custom look. DIY Wedding: Bunting Flag Details & Decor. Bunting banners and flags are popping up all over the place in weddings!
From ceremony and reception decor to cake toppers and jewelry, they can be used throughout your wedding. Bunting banners are very easy to DIY. They’re just so darn adorable I had to dedicate a post to these playful decorations!! Just like the DIY Garland tutorials I shared with you last week, the projects below could be easily incorporated into your wedding plans. Simply click on the images to get to the tutorials… Wedding Blog: DIY Wine Bottle Wedding Decor. My fiancée and I are pretty big wine drinkers.
We’re also fairly lazy which means we have plenty of empty wine bottles piling up in the recycling area. So, all of these dusty bottles got me wondering how I could reuse them in a fun way for our wedding. I love reusing items we already have at home because not only is it budget friendly (umm…can you get any more budget friendly than free?!?) , it’s also eco-friendly. As it turns out, there are plenty of ways to put these bottles to good use! Check out this DIY Wine Bottle Torch. Free Fillable Vintage Labels. World Label shares this lovely selection of Suzee Que framed vintage labels (in fillable PDF) for F-R-E-E!
Great for seating cards, mailing/favor/jar labels, etc. For more designs, instructions and printing tips, click on over here. 25 Romantic Wedding Aisle Petals Decor Ideas. Home design DIY Weddings Kids Fashion and Style Cool stuff 25 Romantic Wedding Aisle Petals Decor Ideas What can be more romantic than a scattering of flower petals?
We know this element of décor from the most popular and beloved melodramas where gents made the tracks of rose petals, beds decorated with them in the shape of a heart, etc. It soon became a trend and right now it’s a favorite example of wedding ceremony décor. {DIY or DIE} The Easiest DIY Flower at The Broke. You probably wouldn’t have guessed this about me– and I’ll deny it if you ask me in front of my future grandfather-in-law– but I’m completely lazy.
I don’t like projects that are too complicated because I get halfway through and I’m bored, and sometimes sticky, and I’m missing my trashy TV shows, and the directions are suddenly in Spanish {what?!!} And all at once I realize that I don’t care enough about this craft to keep going. So I don’t. I stop. And I leave it there, and then The Groom comes home and asks what happened and I tell him that it’s a craft project and that he’s not allowed to touch it, even though he and I both know I have no intention of finishing it and in a week, he’ll end up using a chisel to un-stick it from my desk and tossing it in the garbage can as I stand there with Elephant in my arms wailing about how life is so unfair. And in that moment, a light bulb went on. Ladies and gents: Coffee Filter Flowers, the easiest DIY project you are ever going to find. DIY Snowflake Garland: Winter Wedding Decorating Ideas. Posted on December 22, 2009 by Christina Remember those pretty paper snowflakes you made as a kid?
Guess what. They’re a beautiful way to decorate for a winter wedding. Simply cut snowflakes from paper and hang. You can create a snowflake garland using thread or fishing line, or simply stick them to flat surface. Maps. Wedding Bunting DIY. Posted on May 31, 2011 by Christina. DIY - Bird Cage Lanterns. Do It Yourself Wedding Project: Crepe Paper Rose Pomanders. Today I came across these super cute Crepe Paper Rose Pomanders made by Shelley Smith from the House of Smiths blog.
Shelley’s easy and inexpensive DIY project is perfect for any wedding reception or bridal shower decor. Make sure you head over to Shelley’s blog for more DIY projects and tips. Here are the DIY step-by-step instructions from Shelley: Craft Supplies Needed Styrofoam Ball Forms Crepe Paper Streamers {Color of your choosing} Glue Gun & Lots of Glue Sticks Roll of Tape Measuring Stick 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. How To Make Scratch Off Save The Date Cards For Your Wedding. So it’s time for another installment of BUY or DIY?
This time, we’re talking scratch cards ~ those fun, lotto inspired cards that make what’s underneath much more exciting! The scratch card concept is often used for Save The Date cards ~ use them to keep your guests guessing until revealing the date of your wedding and/or the names of the happy couple getting married. They can also be used in similar ways on invites to bridal/baby showers, stag or bachelorette parties. DIY Ideas. Ideas originales para Boda en Guadalajara. Budget wedding ideas, Spokane wedding venues. I received an e-mail a couple weeks ago from a very sweet bride asking me a very real and honest question.
Can you plan a decent wedding in the Spokane area for $5,000-$6,000? We’re getting very real here at Apple Brides today! Firstly, I have to preface this with saying that I firmly believe weddings are worth spending money on, an opinion I’ve fought for ever since I joined the industry. “The wedding industry just wants people to spend money.” “Brides are the only ones who care about the details.” and the classic “What’s the point in spending so much on one single day?” But I also firmly believe that money, in itself, does not make a good wedding and that you can celebrate your marriage without breaking the bank. Image by Flat 4 Photography. Thursday Tips: Let There Be Light! « Advice. It’s amazing how lighting can completely transform a space–it can take old barns and bland banquet halls from totally lame to completely spectacular.
Quality lighting will set the mood for your reception and will up the quality of your photos. There are so many options to consider when it comes to shining the light on your ceremony and/or reception–paper lanterns, chandeliers, string lights, luminaries, rope lights, candles, twinkle lights, not to mention the countless DIY lighting projects that are out there! Lighting your venue doesn’t have to be crazy expensive either–read on to find out the best places to get lights and some cost effective DIY projects.
Most favorited last 7 days. Best Wedding Photos - Creative Wedding Photos. Last week, we asked our Facebook fans to take a look back at the Photo of the Week winners over the past year and cast their votes for 2012's Photo of the Year. Here, check out the countdown to the top 25 photos! Last week, we asked our Facebook fans to take a look back at the Photo of the Week winners over the past year and cast their votes for 2012's Photo of the Year. Here, check out the countdown to the top 25 photos! 25. A ceremony reminiscent of the Breaking Dawn wedding:
30 Geeky Engagement Rings, Wedding Bands, And Ring Boxes. DIY Lights & Lanterns / The backdrop is made by using an art canvas and poking holes through the canvas with a sharpened nail. Push string lights through holes after deciding on the pattern you want to make. I used glue dots to keep the lights in place. DIY Lights & Lanterns / String lights with plastic cups covered in fabric. Buy String Lights at Luna Bazaar. Matchstick Stars. Wedding Themes. Wedding Themes. DIY Weddings. DIY Weddings. DIY Weddings. DIY Weddings. Cut 18-gauge cloth-wrapped floral wire to desired length: 12 inches is a good starting length for a bouquet; 6 works well for a boutonniere. Clockwise from top left:Button: Cut 11/2-inch square of crepe paper. Place thumbnail-size wad of cotton in center; push end of wire into cotton.
Wrap paper around cotton; twist ends around wire. Secure with floral tape. (Daisy) Bud: Cut a 3-inch square of crepe paper; fold it into a triangle. Pistil: Cut a 1/2-by-6-inch strip of off-white crepe paper. Floret: Cut 6-by-2-inch strip of crepe paper; fold every 1/2 inch. Triple Button: Cut three 1-inch squares of crepe paper; make three wads of cotton the size of a pinky nail. You're Engaged. You're Engaged. You're Engaged. DIY Paper Flower Backdrop. We’re delighted to have Jenny of Hank & Hunt back with us today to share another DIY tutorial. Last week you saw her DIY Feather Clips, and today she’s teaching us how to make a low-budget, high-impact paper flower backdrop! We love the idea of playing around with colors and perhaps even patterns to fit the feel of your wedding day perfectly. Wedding Reception Pictures. Doctor Who Wedding Theme Ideas. Here at Geekvites, we get to see lots of crazy amazing things that fellow lovers of our favorite fandoms have created.