Anyone else Diying out there? ☠️

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Those are beautiful, you are very talented!!

I’m doing as much DIY as I can!
This morning I finished the boutonnières!
last week I did centerpieces and guestbook

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Awesome thank you!

View quoted message I did a lot of research to see which type of fabric flowers I preferred and then I found YouTube tutorials to get the instructions and then altered them on my own to get the size of flowers I needed. (The burlap roses, I already knew how to do, but I'm sure there are YouTube videos for those too!)

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Did you follow a website or a book to get the instructions?

View quoted message Hard, no...but they were tedious. There's a lot of cutting involved (some of them use several small pieces) and you have to run the edges over a candle flame to curl them, that gives them their texture. It took quite a bit of time, but I would just throw on a movie and work away at it haha.
The burlap roses were super easy though, I can finish one of those in a couple of minutes!
It was definitely worth it though, I made all of the bouquets (4), boutonnieres (9) and a wrist corsage for the mother's for $145...and that included all fabric and supplies!!

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Those look amazing! were they hard to make?

View quoted message I made the flowers out of polyester satin and some out of burlap, the leaves I purchased at Michael's.
These are the bridesmaids bouquets. Mine is a traditional style bouquet made from the same flowers. The boutonnieres are made from the burlap flowers, and wrapped in ribbon.

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How did you make the boutonnières and corsages? Did you just buy fake flowers?

Not literally 4 miles - about 300 feet, decorating our hall

I'm going to DIY as much of my wedding as I can. So far, I made the bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages, wedding favours (hand poured candles), vases for the centerpieces, as well as candles for the centerpieces, bar and menu signs, thank you cards, cake topper, bunting to hang in the barn, and several games to have out in the yard for guests to play. I still have a long list of things to do but am starting to have nightmares on the regular about things not turning out. I've decided to hire out flowers for the centerpieces as well as invites (got them on sale through vistaprint for half price!!). Gotta save myself some stress somewhere, as I'm not good to anyone if I quit sleeping hahaha

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Wow thats a lot. I cut and sewed 120 feet of bunting and I thought that was a lot!! What are you doing with all that bunting?? amazing.

Totally DIYing as much as possible. Sewing 4 miles of bunting

I'm totally DIYing my centerpieces, i'm thinking fairy lights in vases with flowers in them, and my wedding favours, Popcorn jars, or smores packages. There's so many good cheap places to get stuff. I'm so ready for the making part, but don't want to start buying stuff until I know how many people/tables there will be. Though I have totally already made the bouquets, cheap flowers from Michaels and ribbon to tie the stems together, was super easy!

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View quoted message She's my FH baby Taz. He wanted her in the wedding lol but no animals are allowed at the venue

I haven’t made a whole lot yet, just made my honeymoon fund jar we starting filling with cash here and there! I also made my save the dates to save some money. I ordered my invites, RSVP cards and reception cards, because I got 1/4 of the way though my STD and was already so tired of it lol! But I had fun with them anyway.

Save The Dates

Honeymoon fund jar

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LOVE! They look great, you did a great job!

You even have an admirer in the background checking out your work, cute!

That is amazing and a little bit crazy (in the best way possible). You guys are rock stars for doing that. I think that is an incredibly sentimental and everlasting memory that you both are creating. I am DIYing quite a few things but not anything spectacular like that. Best wishes!!

I was working on my centerpieces the other night

I am doing a bit of Diy

I found a whole suite on Etsy for our invitations/RSVP/Thank you cards/seating chart/table numbers etc so I have been printing all of those (never been more happy that I bought a paper cutter!)

I'm also making some chalk board tic-tac-toe boards for during the reception (one side will be painted tic tac toe board and the other will be blank for drawing)

We are doing a sort of DIY photo booth...in that we bought a selfie stick and a bunch of props and people can do it themselves with their phones.

I bought some string lights meant for wine bottles off of Amazon (the tops fit in the bottle like a cork) that we are going to use along the bar

I also found a bunch of 8" x 10" frames at a thrift shop that I am going to re-paint and use for random things (cupcake flavours, specialty drink list, etc)

We have plans to DIY some photos on mason jars, some hula hoop with lights and put some wood onto signs so they stand up on their own, no easels required (fingers crossed)

Wow! I am looking forward to the DIYing part.

Good luck with the rest!

I will be DIYing so many things.

1. Bustle my wedding dress.

2. Might change the wedding dress to corset back (depends on the fit closer to wedding day).

3. Wedding Veil.

4. A white dancing dress (I will change to dancing dress for the first dance cause we will be doing swing dance)

5. My bridesmaids short dresses plus detachable long skirts for the ceremony.

6. Invitations.

7. Bouquets and boutonnieres.

8. Wedding favours.

dry rub favorsDIY wedding favors

I made DIY spice rub favors as well

DIY centerpieces

I've made up a few centerpieces to choose between the ones I wanted. I'm also making my own aisle decor, arch decorations, photobooth decorations, basically all decorations lol. I also DIY'ed wedding favors!

That's awesome! I'm DIYing lots but definitely nothing that adventurous!

Those are pretty cool! I am not really DIYing anything...I don't have a creative bone in my entire body.

That's such a neat idea, kudos to you!!

I ordered some supplies off of Amazon to make centerpieces! I don't have any projects to work on in the near future, besides invitations at some point.

Help, I need an idea on making bouguets. Sunflower yellow and navy blue, my wedding is at a resort in Jamaica.

Wow. That is amazing. Good for you!

I'm just about to order my silk flowers, but that's about it for DIY at this point. Most of my projects will be done over the summer.

That is so cool!! My room mate just mentioned him having an access of wine bottles... maybe I should give it a try to at least make some cups for our home....