My wonderful Hubs decided to propose March 11, 2011. We thought about waiting till this year for our big day, but then said screw it and went for an August 19th wedding. Which only gave us five, very fast, months to plan our big day. And, I know people out there plan a wedding in less time than that and are way busier than we are, but time flies and I'm a bit of a procrastinator so five months felt like a very short amount of time.
By mid July I thought I had everything planned and ready to go. We had the venue, dress, catering, floral and photography all figured out. Our invites had gone out and RSVP's were trickling in. Our registry was all up-to-date and we were ready to say I DO. But then one evening as I was browsing online pictures of weddings and trying to decide if we were going to have an arbor or not, I suddenly realized that we had NO DECOR. We didn't need much in the floral department because we were getting married outside. But the venue was this beautiful, private residence/vineyard with very elegant and semi-vintage style. And with all the photos I kept perusing, I knew I wanted some kind of decor.
SO I found inspiration from the oh-so-fabulous style me pretty blog and went out to the local consignment and Goodwill shops and found pieces to throw together for our wedding and I think everything came together very nicely; very whimsy with tiny details of vintage.
All wedding photos were shot by Erich McVey. Check out his website and blog, he is seriously an AMAZING photographer!
I found these amazing shudders at a local consignment shop and knew they would be perfect, somehow, for our wedding. I think I made good use of them. I had my husband hinge them together. I found photos of my parents wedding and had my in-laws give me some of theres and used small clothes pins to pin them to the shudders.
This delicious picture just makes me thirsty every time I look at it. We have a copy in our kitchen and I think Erich did a wonderful job at capturing our strawberry lemonade.
Thirsty??
Aren't these flowers so BEAUTIFUL?? Our florist, Stephanie, from Petalos Floral Design did a incredible job with all the floral arrangements.
The old hymnal books were also found at a consignment shop. I found the birdcages online at save-on-crafts. Totally awesome craft website BTW. And we now have our birdcages as part of our decor on our mantel at home.
All the banners were made by me and took FOREVER. Remember earlier in this post when I said I procrastinate?? Did I mention I also don't have patience? In some of the pictures of the banners you can see that the letters are lifting a bit, that is because towards the end of my project I ditched the glue (that took FOREVER to dry) and used double sticky tape, which is not as durable.
The supplies you will need to make these DIY banners are as follows...
- Chipboard
- Chipboard letters (or you can try just using craft/scrap-booking paper to make your own)
- Glue or double sticky tape
- Scissors
- Ribbon
- Hole puncher
Take the chipboard and lay it on your paper and trace the outline of the chipboard design. Then cut out the outlines and glue or tape them onto the chipboard. Then hole punch where the holes in the chipboard are. Add your letter/design to the middle using glue or tape. String ribbon through the holes and VOILA!!
These paper cones were made from pages of the old hymnal books from above. I tore some of the pages out and using my kindergarden craft skills, I rolled them into cones. I did have to cut them a bit, more into a square shape, to get the right cone shape that I wanted. You can find a DIY example here. The example shows a more pointy top, but I cut the tops before I rolled them to be more scalloped. Then I hole punched them and added ribbon. We filled them with dissolvable confetti so our guests could shower us while we walked back up the aisle.
This next picture is very near and dear to my heart. My stepfather passed away in 2006 so he was not able to walk me down the aisle. His sister got married a few months before we did and passed this idea on to me. My mother found a small picture keychain at Walmart and spray painted it white, then added his picture to it. She added ribbon and then I tied it around my bouquet. My aunt found her mini picture frames at Joann Fabrics.
So focus here on the paper pom-poms hanging from the trees. I bought a TON of tissue paper and took it over to my future mother-in-law's house and we had a tissue-paper-pom-making-party. It took FOREVER to make all these tissue pom-poms. Martha Stewart has a great tutorial here if you need some help. Hers of course look perfect, but I think ours turned out okay. We used fishing line to hang them from the trees and they lined the walk way leading up to the aisle.
Wasn't our view AMAZING??
So we decided to go with unity sand for our unity ceremony. I searched a ton of websites looking for the best price on the jars and sand and they all seemed way too expensive, at least more than I was willing to spend. And if I did find a kit that was decently priced, the shipping was so expensive that it didn't end up saving any money. SO, I went to my local Craft Warehouse and put together my own kit. The jars and sand were all purchased for around $25 buckaroos, compared to $60 online.
I wanted to display some of our engagement photos (also shot by Erich McVey) so I bought some really inexpensive frames from Goodwill and spray painted them white and then added our photos and displayed them in a hutch at the venue.
These cute little birds were purchased on Etsy. Unfortunately, the user is no longer available, but aren't they cute??
This last photo was shot by the WONDERFUL photographers Erik and Robin with Paparazzi Tonight. It is one of my favorites and I highly recommend this AWESOME team for any event!!
And they lived happily ever after...
Thank you to all our friends and family who helped with this beautiful day. Much loves!
with.love
ashley
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