It's been 9 months since I got married.......and I realized that I had quite a few DIYs for my wedding that I wanted to share with you!
First up- flowers and bouttinieres.
I knew that I didn't want to go with anything traditional for the wedding and my biggest DIY surprise for myself was that I made my flowers from crepe paper! Once I knew what I was going to do for flowers it just made complete sense for me-I'd get to customize the sizes, colours and even the quantity.
Using this blog post from Studio DIY, a couple of my bridesmaids and I were able to put together all of flowers over the course of a couple of evenings. One evening was spent cutting out everything, the other was spent making them.
Gorgeous flowers for my gorgeous gals!
Just look at how vibrant those colours are
I hired Wildfell Florals to make some simple herb bouttinieres for the men. For my groom's bout, I added a special touch- a succulent that I had kept growing from my Feb 2015 photoshoot with Arynn Photography. While this may not count as a complete DIY, as someone with a notorious black thumb I'm extremely proud of myself for keeping the succulent alive.
The succulent is still alive and well, and I've managed to propogate two more baby plants from its leaves
Wedding Favours- Tea Sachets
This is the DIY that took up the most of my time...but was the most fun to do! I looooove tea. It's my go-to beverage, with coffee being a close second. These bags were my pride and joy, but took a lot of effort to make. I'd say they took about two evenings of work but were well worth it.
I had five types of tea hidden amongst all the sachets.
- Chai
- Earl Grey
- Pomegranate Green
- Genmaicha
- Tropical Black Tea
First off- those tags took an entire evening of taping (there's a washi tape strip on the other side for colour) writing and threading. I put 2-3 servings of tea into teabags to seal up so they didn't lose their flavour, then put them into the little burlap bags.
It was a fun couple of nights to hangout with bridesmaids and put them to work...but when you've got 250 to make it was awesome to be able to split up the work.
Have you tackled any DIYs lately, wedding or day-to-day life?
