Wedding Rehearsal and other stuff.

My parents' wedding anniversary was the night of my rehearsal dinner <3
I bought this cotton eyelet dress at Target, added Ribbon around the waist, paper flowers from Michael's and pearl beads... all hot glued!





I printed all of the wedding fans, cut them out and spray glued together with wide popsicle sticks from Michael's. Card Stock CDs I designed, printed, cut and folded. (with lots of help from Mom and Brooke!)

For the BBQ rub favors, I purchased the tins at Michael's, which came with printable stickers I designed. Also my recipe for BBQ rub!

Handmade Wedding: Signs, Favors, Fan Programs, Readings and Vows

Finished DIY Bouquet

Jewelery + Wedding Prep Update

Style me Pretty is a great source for DIY weddings, and never falls short with Beautiful inspiration and amazing DIY projects. This necklace tutorial is no exception. I think I may have to add this to my To Do list.


Considering I haven't even started LOOKING for jewelery, I found another photo on the Style me Pretty site that I started drooling over... see more pictures HERE


I'd be more than massively excited about wearing either of these.

As for the Wedding Prep Update...

- BBQ rub favors are complete!
- Staples floored me with prices of printing, so another DIY project got even more DIY. Printing is done, but the CD favors and the Fans need to be pasted together and cut out.
- The wedding script and readings are completed, and parially printed.
- Flowers have been purchased! Hope they stay alive with all this bi-polar weather.

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!