SMY: DIY Wedding/Reception Projects

MARRIEDS:  Let's see those amazingly gorgeous DIY items that you made for your wedding.

BRIDES-TO-BE:  Show us what you have started or your inspiration DIY projects. 

Please realize I am on a very tight budget so everything I am doing is DIY. If I cannot create or make it I can't have it.

This is a High Tea so everything is Tea related.

I switched colors of my dress to champagne so I tea dyed the white flower, ribbon and handkerchief that were white.

These are usually used to make cookies I used them with papermache and polyclay to make an escort card favor.

These are going to be on the High Tea Buffet Table along with scones

This is a handmade teabag with whole leaf tea and a pouch to keep it clean.

These are going to be attached to the Tea bag with a different Tea related poem on each

I am making these signs for the kids, Hot Cocoa and Desert/Candy bar

Bumping this! I would love some more ideas for table decorations. I cannot afford floral anything.

Here are some of my DIYs

Lamp centerpieces (I DIY'd the lamps):

Menu/Place Card:

Food favor holder:

Mr & Mrs. chair signs:

Unity Candle

Wow that was beautiful CBT! What beautiful DIY projects!

Yet again I am reminded of what an amazingly talented group of ladies we have here!! I am not nearly so crafty, so I only had a few DIYs, but I only had the courage to try them because of PW :)

My STDs, invites, aisle decor and favors were DIYs:

I had a friend take an Epic and design this, then I played around with Word business card templates to get these set up so many to a page, then we printed them at home on magnet paper from Hobby Lobby and cut them apart!

I was inspired to create my own invites based on another PW brides tutorial...Hobby Lobby again to the rescue! These were pocket-fold invites made out of construction paper and cardstock.

Here is the inspiration for my tissue poms:

And here is the final product:

My favors are my favorite DIY. We printed cardstock on two sides - one said Thanks for Making our Day so SWEET! and had the heart cutout in the middle, with our names and wedding date below. Then the inside had DH's grandma's family sugar cookie recipe, and we tied the cookie cutters in the middle!

(ignore the date, my camera was goofy!)

Yea, great job CBT!! I love your lamps...could not have done a better job on those!

Here are a few of mine: dollar store frame:

Chalkboard programs so I didn't have to make 75 programs...

By far the cheapest DIY I made was the cake topper:

 Kind of hard to see, but I just printed out "Elise & Trent" on cardstock in a banner like fashion and stuck it in with bamboo skewers. <3

Escort cards:

 This was fun. I got to stalk people on facebook for pictures! lol.

And dollar store cake stands that I made, and dollar store cake cutters that I decorated because we had bundt cakes as centerpieces on half of the tables:

I LOVE the bundt Cake centerpieces.

All these are AMAZZZZZZING!!

Well done girls!!

Chalk programs = best idea ever!!