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Saturday 29 October 2011

More Bouquets

Upon examining my guitar pick bouquet I decided 2 things...1) I really like it and want to keep it and 2) if I tossed it at the reception it would either smash to pieces or take someone's eye out.  So I decided to make a little bouquet up for the sole purpose of tossing that would not smash to pieces or take someone's eye out.  Luckily for me, one of my shower gifts came with a little bunch of silk green and white gerbera's attached so I repurposed them into my toss bouquet with a bit of ribbon I had lying around.  I think it came out pretty cute and much safer than the guitar pick one lol.




I also was told after my shower that it was traditional to use the bows and ribbons off the gifts as a 'bouquet' for the ceremony rehearsal.  I'd never seen this before, we always just made the bride-to-be a silly hat out of them attached to a paper plate.  Well they made me my paper plate ribbon hat and then I decided to also use the ribbons to make a rehearsal bouquet and I must say I am quite proud of the result!  Its been a very bouquet-y day today...I think now that all of my projects are winding down I may be going into crafty withdrawal...good thing my cousin is getting married a month after we are so I can help his fiancee out!








Monday 24 October 2011

FLOWERS ARE FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhh I can't believe they're done!!! and I'm really happy with how they turned out :) Small and simple yet modern and cute.  I couldn't find any bouquet holders so I devised my own out of stuff around the house...namely toilet paper and paper towel rolls and the inside tube from a roll of aluminum foil...can't even tell the difference after you wrap them in ribbon! =D I just bought a block of floral foam for the inner cores of the handles.  I got the brown brick of dry floral foam from Walmart, it was less than half the price of the exact same brick at Michaels.  Full instructions on the Guitar Pick Flowers DIY page! I really hope these help someone else out since I couldn't for the life of me find instructions anywhere when I started out!

Friday 21 October 2011

Decorations for Guest Book Table

I posted these on The Knot and had someone ask for the template but I can't for the life of my figure out how to post a file on here so here's what I did: :)

I used Microsoft Publisher and created a new custom sized document that was 12"x12".  Then I used word art to make the "HE" or "SHE" in the back ground and filled the page with it.  Then I typed in our things we love about each other into a text box that was the same size as the page (keep everything within the little blue lines at the edges so it all prints properly) separated with the dot, which I copied from the character map.  On my computer (vista) its under Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map.  I just made the text and background opposite colours on the two documents.  Then I got them printed and made into 'plak-its' at Staples.  Make sure to check them when you pick them up though because I just realized that the SHE sign is about a 1/4 inch smaller than the HE which makes the text go right to the edge of it.

Monday 3 October 2011

Counting the days...

The days before the wedding are getting less and less and I'm trying not to panic that I won't have everything done in time! I just finally started on the flowers last night and thank goodness they're turning out better than I hoped so I think this is the last decision I have to make! We'll see about that lol.  I also finished my last hanger last night (mine of course) so that's another thing checked off.  Last week I ordered my bridesmaids gifts which came in really quick from http://www.flirtyaprons.ca/.  All my girls love to cook and the aprons on this site are adorable, I even ordered one for myself and one for my mom for her birthday. So in all, they're getting the aprons, jewelry for the day and hangers for their dresses.  I'm still debating what to get for my FG and RB, I'm thinking about making them fleece tie blankets and Ryan still has to decide what he's getting for his groomsmen.  So I guess there are a few decisions left to make! 

I updated the DIY page today with instructions for the corsages, RB pillow and personalized hangers.  I've been getting a bit lazy so there aren't pictures for each step but I think if you look at the final picture you should be able to figure it out :) Those projects weren't overly difficult.  I'm going to update the instructions tonight with a how-to for the guitar pick flowers I'm making for the bouquets and boutonnieres.  I finished 9 flowers last night and they came out good enough that I'll try really hard to remember to take step by step pics!  Piccies of the ones I did last night below :) They still need their stems wrapped and I have to figure out how I'm going to actually make them come together in a bouquet but I've gotta get them finished first!