Category: DIY Wedding Blog
We sent them
out as fun postcards. I used one of our engagement photos for the front
and applied the wedding date and a decorative border to the suitcase.
I designed and letter
pressed the booklets with a purple tone-on-tone faux bois cover. (We
actually used clear ink that just looks like a darker color.) I incorporated
our names and silhouettes in the knot of the wood on the cover.
The inside
included the formal invitation, a hand drawn map and a postcard for
the response card. Out of town guests had an additional perforated piece
with travel information on half, and a response card for the rehearsal
dinner. We assembled the whole thing by hand, sewing each book up with
some string.
Since we got married
outside in the August heat of Georgia, we wanted to give the guests
a little help by making the wedding programs into fans.
We purchased peach
salsa in mini jars for our guests. I then created a faux bois design
with our silhouettes in the knot (matching our invitations) and printed
them in our wedding colors on craft paper and attached each wrapper
to the jar around the neck with twine.
Sara, thank you again for taking the time to get together everything for your guest blog today. We wish you both a lifetime of happiness!
I have an AMAZING giveaway coming up next! It is our biggest one to date and you definitely don’t want to miss out on finding out how to enter…
I would say feel we were going for classy,
modern, vintage. We wanted the entire experience to feel very natural,
comfortable, nostalgic and maybe even a bit magical. To say rustic isn’t
quite right, but we did draw cues from the landscape, using materials
like wood and burlap and working with what was presented to us in the
setting. The main colors were a rich purple
and a vibrant yellow, with lots of accent colors in there.
[Images c/o Kyle Hale]
More wedding goodness coming up next…
When I first stumbled upon KC and Sara’s blog, I was instantly smitten with all the original and handmade elements from their wedding and it was only about 5 minutes before I was emailing Sara if I could feature her wedding on Once Wed. Its always amazes me just when I think I’ve seen everything the wedding community has to offer – I stumble upon something else that blows my mind. The "outdoor chapel" KC and Sara created with the help of family and friends is absolutely incredible and was definitely a true labor of love. Sara drew out exactly what she wanted and everyone got to work breaking apart planks and putting them back together to create the beautiful setting you will see below. Sara was also sweet enough to take time out of her day to share more details from her wedding with us, so I’ll let her take it from here…
KC is a sound
designer at Whirling Dervish
and I am an interactive designer at Razorfish . I also do freelance
interactive & print design work . As
middle school sweethearts (celebrating 8 years together this year!),
we have a lot of history and have been impacted by so many people throughout
the years. We had 200 guests- family, friends from middle school, high
school, college, church, from even as far as Estonia. You name it, they
were invited. Even though it was "our day", we really wanted
to create an experience that our guests would remember- something that
was a true representation of who we’ve become as a couple over the past
7 years.
Since we are both professional creatives,
we wanted to express the creativity that’s part of our daily lives through
our wedding. I derived the most inspiration from Anthropologie, especially these two photos. (And who isn’t inspired by their gorgeous floor
sets?) I browsed the wedding circuits, but since we didn’t want it to
be wedding-y, the most interesting features of our wedding are original
ideas.
We tiled
a fun photo onto cardboard and attached them to streetsigns on the way
there. (It’s not in the photo, but we attached a bunch of white balloons
to each sign so that it looks like I’m holding them)
We created an "outdoor
chapel" for the ceremony site out of palette wood, old windows,
an old mantle, and a chandelier hanging over us (I drew a quick sketch
and my husband and dad created it!).
[Images c/o Kyle Hale]
Details from the reception are coming up next…
When I first had the idea of the little diorama in the
box, I thought it would become an invite or save the date. It
evolved into a non traditional wedding album of sorts… a souvenir
or keepsake, a little box of sentiment, which could be given to the
couple’s parents (or a maid of honor,, or any special person) to
commemorate the day. I think this is an easy one to customize
just by changing colors or the elements in the little scene. Of
course adding your photos completely makes it your own too!
Enjoy!
Laurie
What You’ll Need:
Cut a piece of paper slightly smaller than these dimensions (one for
the top and one for the bottom). Glue down these papers using your
paper glue. Be sure that the tails of the ribbon in the box lid
remain free. . (see figure 2)
You can do this free hand, with rubber stamps, or use your
computer and print out images or text. Cut out your design (it should
be the same dimensions as your box lid) and use your paper glue to
adhere it to the box top. (see figure 3)
shorter than the height of of the box. Use hot glue to attach the
base of the tree to the bottom side of the box. (see figure 4)
(using your glue gun) on your tree branches. (I found it easier to
hold them with tweezers during this process). (see figure 5)
Use the ribbon to secure the pictures in the box lid by tying the tails
into a bow. (see figure 6).
This is the first time in a long time I dont have anything to post for the day, so I thought I would share a couple of images from a really fun wedding I’m featuring on Monday. The bride created many of the elements herself and the whole wedding is absolutely beautiful…
Also, Laurie is posting her DIY column tomorrow instead of today…
