Rustic / Vintage Wedding on a Florida Cattle Farm

 

Paper Lanterns from save-on-crafts.com Signs were hand painted by me.



Vintage Floral Brooch Bouquet - handmade by me.
See exactly how I did it! Vintage Floral Brooch Wedding Bouquet



Wedding Program Fans - designed and handmade by me.
Water bottles - designed by my students.
"I love you like biscuits and gravy" - YeeHaw Industries




Photography: Jordan Weiland Photography




Wedding Soda Machine cover/poster - designed by me




Wedding thumbprint tree painted by Jessica Dietrich Standridge
 


Wedding Archery and Cornhole!  We own the bow and arrows and the owner of the ranch had the cornhole boards.



The quilt hanging in the backdrop of the photo booth was handmade by my late grandmother, and the frame was spray painted by me :)

All photography by Jordan Weiland Photography - http://www.jordanweilandphoto.com

Finished DIY Bouquet

DIY Brooch Bouquet

Whew!

I was really concerned about this project, considering it was all theoretical, I had never made one before, nor did I have directions or a tutorial. All in my head.
*aside: 90% of the brooches were my mother's and grandmother's. I purchased the rest on etsy, a few were mine (there's a rhinestone skull in there!) plus an owl Jason gave me.

Pictured here are a few of my tools and ingredients:

• Fabric cut into strips
• Styrofoam Ball, cut in half, and cored for bouquet base to fit
• straight pins, scissors
• and a TON of brooches, beads, buttons

Once much of the fabric strips were secured, I added a few "flowers" made of squares of fabric and straight pins. Then, the fun part. wire and stick all of the decor.

The final product:
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* See Finished DIY Bouquet blog post for more photos!