Wedding Forum - Show off your DIY creations! (invites,...

some of this DIY stuff is great, we are making some of our stuff too! once we have done it ill put a photo in my album :)

Thanks, I will have a read :)

And the bridesmaids ones..

Love this thread :) were diying a lot for our wedding so will be sure to post

Love this thread!! We're not getting married for a few years but we have set a date mid winter so really want to embrace that with DIY creations. In addition my sister is getting married next summer and were planning on DIY'ing a lot of her decorations (I currently have a shed full of empty coffee jars and wine bottles as she doesn't drink either, hope she uses them else I just look like an alcoholic with a caffeine addiction!!)
I haven't started doing things yet for my wedding as it is soooooo far away, but I've made some decisions. I'm thinking for center pieces of spraying twigs and branches silver arranging them in vases and hanging black baubles with guests names on each bauble (as place names) I will then ask each guest to write a few words of wisdom or a wish on their bauble for us to keep and hang on our x-mas tree!! I'm playing with a few ideas to make this a bit more visually exciting, maybe a red and silver bauble wreath to sit each vase in or something.
I would like to make the invites, save the dates etc as I made my daughters christening invites and everyone was really impressed, however I have found exactly what I want for £2 an invite I think it cost about the same for me to make them and if I have someone else do them it saves me the hassle.
Can anyone recommend where to get good quality silk flowers? As I would love to give making my own bouquets a go! Plus I thinking of doing something with x-mas tree decs and holly to tie on the seat sashes, I'm thinking fake holly won't cause as many laddered tights!!

Hi Ladies.

All your DIY stuff look amazing. I want to do as much as i can on my own for my wedding but am worried that it wont look as great :(
For the invites and all other stationary, I want to have an ivory white card but a coloured boarder at the back if that makes sense. So was going to stick the ivory/white card to the coloured backing card. Do you just use a scissors to cut up the front bit of the invite with all the information on or is there a specific tool that can help you do this? Hope that makes sense. Please let me know how you all went about in making all your stationary as it all looks amazing.
xxx

Hi DanielleMystic

I will have a look into the guillotine thing thanks. My main concerns with the invite was the cutting as i want it to look good. I also want to try and make my invites, save the dates, rsvps, place settings, table plan, table numbers too.
We are also thinking about having a sweetie table as the H2B is obsesed woth sweets. If he could only eat sweets I think he would lol (dont know how he manages not to put any weight on though lol )
its amazing how many little things there are that you end up thinking of :)

I've now finished personalising 11 champagne flutes for the top table and also for my nieces who are doing readings etc plus I done a trial for the lip balms (ladies favours) and so far everyone has said they are lovely. I've added photos to my album if you want to have a look, I'd appreciate other opinions part from just family :-)

Have to say everyone who has DIY stuff is so talented! Love this thread :)

These too

Thank you Debbie :) I really enjoyed making them and my mum loved them so that's what matters lol

Thanks Glitterfairy x

Mrs D2B :) the wicker hearts were bought as heart and the foliage is fake ;) so it'l last forever ^_^ the only bits that were real on any of it was a little bit of gyp here and there x

we going to cover candles with cinnamon sticks and some twine.. so simple and cheap but gives a great rustic effect I think and smells nice too :)

Thanks GF, this thread will come in handy x

Lovely :)

Those invites are lovely! I have started shopping around for bits and pieces for making my own invites too! any recommendations on where to buy would be appreciated xx

Thank you Emma X

Not sure of the colours yet but our venue has a deer park so we thought these would be cute. It will be a pain cutting and constructing about 70 though! lol

Ill pop into the r@nge for a look thanks!

Emma those are brilliant well done

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Thanks, my other half fiddled on building it! :) x

Thank you everyone, I love them x

I made mine out of A4 card, I didn't use a template just made it up as I went along, lol.
Working from right to left, I made the 1st fold at 10.3cm, then the next fold at 10.5cm, the actual pocket was made using a separate piece of card. The pocket was 12cm x 10cm, I folded a 1cm flap around the edges & the attached it to the card using strong double sided tape. The pointy bit was just a case of marking the centre of the card, then marking 4.5cm (I think) from the fold line, Join these up with a ruler & cut :)

The finished invite when closed measures 10.5 x 21cm so it fits in a DL envelope (11 x 22cm).

I hope that makes sense x

Thank you for sharing that Mrs Robinson will write it down and might give it a go later when the monkey is in bed and its safe to get the scissors out!

Emma i love that deer!