Category: DIY Wedding Blog

I’ve been swooning all morning over Darling Dexter’s
incredible handmade items for her upcoming October wedding. I mean how amazing
are her details?!?! Whitney has also been very helpful recently by answering all my random gocco "how to" emails. That’s right…I bought
a gocco and plan on using it for some new features coming real soon to
Once Wed.

I love the idea of sending out your invitations in the form of a concert poster. I can’t think of a more brilliant way to inform your guests of your upcoming wedding while giving them a hint of  wonderful things to come….

[Images c/o Erin Jang, pjchmiel, and marithansonweddings]

How perfect would Alyssa Ettinger’s porcelain milk bottles filled with flowers look scattered across reception tables? To see more of her work on etsy, click here.

I thought I would end the week with a beautiful paper bouquet created by Laurie(aka lalalaurie). Can you believe the bouquet above only contains paper, wire, millinery leaves, and acorns made out of felt? Pretty amazing isn’t it….

I am taking off a little early today to tackle
some behind-the-scenes work for the site. I am also introducing a brand
new feature next week on Once Wed, which I am incredibly excited about
and cannot wait to share with everyone. A litte hint…..it involves
the amazingly talented editor of Frolic, Chelsea Fuss. Have a beautiful
weekend!

Who knew you could create such beautiful fortune cookies out of a simple piece of paper? Laurie’s DIY project this week is not only creative and fun, but also very inexpensive to make(less than 10 cents per a fortune cookie). Enjoy!!

What You’ll Need
Decorative or Scrapbook paper (not too thick, similar to a text weight,
not cardstock)
White text weight paper
Double faced tape
A pencil
A round plastic lid to use as a template (approximately four to five
inches in diameter) or a extra large circle craft punch
A pair of scissors
Computer and printer

Directions:

1.  Begin by using a plastic lid as a template to trace circles on your
decorative paper.   A 12” square piece of paper yields approximately 9
circles.   Cut out your circles using your scissors.   If you have an
extra large circle craft punch, that works well too.  (see figure 1)

2.  Fold a circle in half with the pattern side in.   Make a crease (at
arrow A) along the folded edge.  (see figure 2)

3.  Open your circle, and turn it pattern side out.

4.  Turn your circle so the crease you made in step 2 is vertical. Fold
the circle in in half horizontally, pattern side out, rounded side down,
Do NOT crease.  (see figure 3)

Hold the half circle on the bottom, ( where arrow B points in figure 3)
between your thumb and index finger.   Use the index finger from your
other hand to push in the middle of the folded side of the circle at the
crease.  (where arrow C points in figure 3).

As you push in, the top corners will start to turn up.

Continue to hold the half circle and use your other hand to pull the
corners in until they nearly meet and form the cookie shape.

If your cookie doesn’t want to stay folded, use a tiny piece of double
stick tape to keep the halves together.  (at arrow in figure 6)

Compose your fortunes on your computer and print them out on a standard
sheet of printer paper using a nine point font.  The fortunes can be a
simple note for the guests such as  "We’re so fortunate to know you.
Thanks for being here today".   Keep the fortunes  just a sentence or two
long.

Cut the fortunes into small slips of paper approximately 1/2 inch high by
two to three inches long.  (see figure 7)

Tuck the fortune into one of the open ends of the cookie.  (see figure 8)

Display in a bowl or on a tray for your guests.

You may struggle with the first one, but after folding a couple of
cookies, you will have it mastered.

What It Costs:
Not much at all !  It works out to be less than 10 cents a cookie.