With spring in the air it is coming are to wedding fair season again. With this in mind I wanted to share the full range of crafts and design work I did for wedding back in October 2018.
I have a previous blog post where I talk about some of the crafts but here I am going to go into it in more detail Wedding Craft Part 1
Wedding Stationary
Invitations
As everyone knows the wedding invite is your guests first look at what your wedding is going to be like. Some people go with an elegant invite, some more simple. We had 2 themes in our wedding, Music and Vintage. With this in mind we went with a ticket style invitation. With the RSVP being the ticket stub. By doing the design myself we saved a lot of money.
Mass Booklet
When we got engaged I had a friend do a caricature of the two of us to use on simple thank you cards. I was so happy with this I asked her to do something similar for the mass booklet. The very talented Rebecca Carmichael was more than happy to help us again and I have to say she did a great job.
On a side note in relation to the Mass booklets I have 2 pieces of advice. No 1. Do the content as early as possible, I left it a bit last minute and it was unnecessary stress coming u to the last few weeks. No 2. Get an external person to proof read the booklets to check for spelling and grammar. We had an unfortunate, but funny when we think of it now spelling mistake at the end of one of the readings. “Thanks be to God” turned into “Thanks be to Good”. Luckily my friend that was due to do the reading spotted it a few days before hand and we came up to a sticker plan to cover it. She also did that for me that took a lot of pressure off.
Bridesmaid Gift
I couldn’t decide what to do for the Bridesmaids gifts, so I decided to do it all ?
I made a personalised gift box for each bridesmaid. I got the boxes from IKEA and using the Teal from the theme from the wedding to decorate it. I used teal tissue paper in the box. I put a strip of teal ribbon at the bottom of the lid and using vinyl I put each of their names.
Inside where Pyjamas with the girls name subtly printed on them. I also got some printed for myself.
For the night before a small bottle of Rose Wine branded with a sticker. For the next morning a personalised mug. A personalised Makeup bag with some essentials, Lip Balm, Mirror, hair ties etc.
I had my fried Ali in A Little Idea custom make a necklace for the 3 of us. 3 small cups representing each one of us on a beautiful chain.
Lastly I did some personalised hangers for the dresses, I have a blog post on how I made these here.
Headpiece
With me going for a 50’s style short wedding dress a long vail wasn’t really an option. A headpiece with a small mesh vail would work best. Being the crafter that I am I wanted to have a go at making one myself but I had zero experience in making a headpiece so I went to a Fascinator work shop at The Design House in Dublin City Centre.
In this class I learned how to make a base to hold the design. I also learned how to make fabric flowers with some metal in the petals to make them bendy.
Of all the things I made for the wedding this was the hardest and I was still making it the night before. I would leave this to the professionals if ever I need one again or make it the only craft thing I have to do for the day.
The Bicycle
The apple didn’t fall far from the tree in my house as both my parents like to make and create things also. My Mam gave my Grandmothers old bicycle a new lease of life for the wedding. Granny’s bike was an old style black heavy bike with white trim. Mam painted the black with a lovely shade of blue as well as cleaning up the white trim , seat and handles also.
She got a new basket for the front and put some flowers in it for the day. I also added a welcome sign and the bike was placed at the front gate of the church.
Paper Flowers
During the Pinathon I had on Pinterest before my wedding looking for crafty ideas I came across these beautiful origami paper flowers. A lot of people used them to make their bouquets but I wanted real flower for that so I decided that I would use them on the church pews. I talk about them more in Wedding Craft Part 1 and I also have a step by step on how to make them in the Easter Basket. My good friend Maeve at Home Grown Sustainability helped me make the flowers and they where then used at her and her sister-in-laws wedding also so they where worth all the effort.
Centrepieces, Seating Plan, Cake table
I talk about the Centrepieces in the Wedding Craft part 1 but I just wanted to show how they tied with the seating plan and cake table
Music and vintage where the two themes we had in our wedding. For the seating plan I created tables based on bands myself and my husband had been to see or love their songs.
On each table I had the name of the band on a record in the centre of the table. To wrap up the music theme I then had cassette tape chocolate wedding favours at each guest seat.
There was a vintage part of the centrepieces also. I talk about the doilies, flower jars in the Wedding Craft Part 1.
Here I will talk about the china teacups and tea lights. I picked up a mix and match of some cups and saucers in the local weekly outdoor market as well as some in charity shops. I wanted to put tealight in each on the tables. I decided to go with the battery-operated ones as this they they would stay lit for hours. I also upcycled these at Christmas and made them into scented candles as gifts. Blog post here
I kept with the vintage tea party aspect when it came to the cake table also. I found a cute tea set that matched my grandmother’s old tea pot and arranged the table for tea for two.
We decided to go small with the dress cake so this fit in well on the tea table. We had our fab cakes made by our friend Ciara at Ciara’s Cistin
The cake stand was a gift we received a few months previous and fitted in perfectly
And there you have it, that is all the crafty bits and bobs I did for my wedding. Id like to thank Sonja Smith Photography for letting me use her beautiful photos as well as doing a fab job on the big day
