Our Wedding: Super Fun Craft Day!
Written by Sara on April 29, 2010 – 9:00 am -This past weekend, my maid of honor Kristen and my bridesmaid Serena came over for our first-ever Super Fun Craft Day (yes, I named it)!
The tasks?
1. Signage. Kristen has LOVELY handwriting (which we also utilized for our save the dates!), so we recruited her again to make place cards for the head table and “reserved” signs for the reception. They turned out great!
2. Ceremony decor. As I mentioned earlier this week, we decided to make tissue paper pomander balls, which we started (as in, I made a template and Serena trimmed all of the tissue paper to the same size). Hopefully I’ll finish them this week! We also placed sand and candles inside mason jars and tied the jars with ribbon to place on the floor of the aisle.
3. Covering these *ugly* plastic canisters of wet wipes with *lovely* scrapbook paper. We needed wet wipes for our guests for guestbook-signing purposes, but I hated the plastic canisters that they came in. So, Serena measured out the appropriate amount of lovely grey damask paper and adorned the canisters with ribbon. Problem solved!
4. The wishing tree. After one casualty (a ceramic pot shattered to its death), we rocked out the wishing tree!
5. Begin folding our cootie catcher favors. Check! Also hope to finish these this week (I will probably make a large dent on this project while watching my weekly TV shows!).
I hope to have another Super Fun Craft Day this summer!
How are you getting all of your DIY projects done on time/with time to spare?
Tags: cootie catcher, damask, DIY wishing tree, mason jar, Super Fun Craft Day, tissue paper pomander balls, wedding ceremony decor, wedding favors, wedding signage
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Our Wedding: Ceremony Decor!
Written by Sara on April 27, 2010 – 9:00 am -
This past weekend, I finally made some concrete decisions about the decor for our ceremony. We’re having our wedding ceremony in a small chapel on the college campus of my alma mater, Augustana. The chapel is BEAUTIFUL (think liturgical art and an ENORMOUS organ), so we didn’t want to overwhelm the space with decor.
The verdict: we’re keeping it simple.
The components of our decor:
1. Pew decorations: yes, I’ve been bitten by the tissue paper pomander bug … we’re using these (rather voluminous) lovelies to adorn every other pew. View instructions here!
2. In place of an aisle runner (which our venue doesn’t allow), I have 12 mason jars that my bridesmaids filled with sand and placed a small votive candle inside. We tied the top of the jar with pretty yellow ribbon, and these will be placed on the floor of the chapel beside a pew (where there’s NOT a pomander ball), so as to create balance.
3. As I mentioned before, we’ve chosen to honor our grandparents by placing seven candles on the altar. These ivory candles will be placed atop a silver charger plate, and lovely little yellow mulberries will be intertwined between the candles.
One last thought: I’m still debating on whether or not we need to place something atop the piano (a birdhouse placed on a doily, perhaps?), but we have everything else figured out!
How are you decorating your ceremony space?
[Photo via Elizabeth Ann Designs]
Tags: Augustana College, ceremony decor, Chapel of Reconciliation, mason jar, tissue paper pomander
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