Thursday, July 19, 2012

Wedding Streamers

Our venue did not allow sparklers or throwing rice, so lovely Pintrest and Meggan Brownrigg, gave me the idea of STREAMERS!!

My mom and I went to Michaels craft store during one of their sales on ribbon.  We found many different ribbons in the purple and orange (my favorite color is purple, Andy's is orange) color theme.


materials:
  • various ribbons, we used varying lengths too
  • dowels, ours were one foot long.   
    • We bought them long and my dad cut them down
    • Then we sanded the ends so that they weren't sharp
  • yard stick
  • scissors
  • hot glue gun
  • twine, for the bells
  • small bells, when you ties them onto the twine keep the bell close to the stick so that it rings better


Ribbons:
  • "Happily Ever After" ~ on all streamers
  • Purple with white darting ~ on all streamers
  • Sheer Orange ~ on some
  • Purple with white design ~ on some
  • White with purple design ~ on some


Final Product

How to do it:
  1. Get your friends and family together to start cutting ribbon
  2. You also need to start stringing the bells on the twine with a large needle 
    • once all the bells are on then you can start cutting the twine with one bell per piece
    • knot each bell so that they don't slide off
  3. Using the hot glue gun glue the bell and twine to the top of the stick
    • while the glue is still wet knot on the dowel over the twine
  4. To secure the ribbons we added one last bit of glue
  5. Ta-Da!


Cocktail Hour Games

Andy and I LOVE playing games.  We wanted to have games for people to playing during the cocktail hour.  One game that we had out on the lower patio was 2 games of corn hole, compliments of my dad!  One of the sets is Lauren's and she did all the hard work of painting it... I will try to add pics later.

This booklet was found online:
cover

first inside page

inside

back pages

back cover

We used purple and white twine to tie them together (the wedding color was purple).
These booklets were laid out with a tray of crayons for guests to use.

Cathy's Touch!

Wedding's are expensive, that's not new news!  We did A LOT of DIY for my wedding.  My mom is an incredible painter, and tried a new medium working with water color in addition to her normal acrylic.  All of the invitations, ceremony booklet, and menu cards turned out PERFECT!

Accommodations card

Reply card

Invitation card

Bachelorette Party invite

Bridal Shower invite

I will add later the ceremony booklet and menu card :)

Thanks Mama!