The Big Reveal: Crafts

So here is how some of my crafts came out…

Coffee filter centre pieces

These came out basically exactly as I envisioned them. I, along with many friends, spent months perfecting them and then on the day of, realized that the “perfect” dye colour did not matter unless you were an centimetre away from it – that no one would have noticed if one centre piece had a brighter pink than another. REGARDLESS – they were just as envisioned.

The lanterns I used as bases were exactly right – we actually originally used them for a Gala at my work, and they came in cream. I bought the remaining lanterns off work (of which there were roughly 75) and spray painted the outside a champagne colour and the inside glass was a creamy pink. They looked great. They were also a really great base for the blooms.

We ended up not using tea lights in the lanterns because the tea lights we got had quite an orange LED bulb to it, so the blooms just were glowing orange orbs. It looked really neat but was not the effect I was looking for. At all.

I also realized that we kept the lights on in the venue the whole time soooooo ya. We didn’t really need them to also play nightlight.

 

We used the lanterns both in the reception room, as well as the cocktail room/foyer. Here’s a picture of The Cpt standing beside one sitting on a cocktail table. This one looks like one of Shinobu’s, who made the best blooms out of ALL of us.

Here’s one sitting beside the basket of flip flops that were one of my most popular – and you may remember it being incredibly rash – decisions.

We had 9 of the jumbo ones in total – 8 were used in the reception room and the one that I messed up and that was shaped like a strawberry we hung in the dance room as a disco ball substitution. See them hanging from the beams there? The room was so big – they didn’t actually have tons of impact but it was still great.

The Escort Board

I didn’t even teach you how to make my escort cards yet – FUG. Or did I? I can’t remember. But the escort cards cost me $30 in total and took about 2 hours. They were little brown envelopes, filled with lavender. I bought a shape cutter from Michaels, a Martha Stewart one, and cut out the cream parts out of stock scrapbooking paper. I took a bronze pen and wrote everyone’s names on. By hand. Like my seating cards. FML that took a long time.

But here is the Escort Board in ALL of it’s glory. I think it turned out great!

I ended up spray painting the clothes pins with a creamy colour spray paint so it matched hunky dory.

 

Below is a better shot of the actual colours of the board. Just LOOK at that handwriting.

A clothes up of the pins, the fabric, the ribbons and der, the rings.

The Aisle Markers

Ooooooooh the aisle markers.  First off, they were adorable. Just adorable. However – I couldn’t smell any lavender walking down the aisle. Not that I would have noticed even if I did. I was too busy thinking about how goofy my smile must have looked. But they served their purpose and I think they looked pretty cute.

 

The Burlap Table Runners

That burlap was one of the best decisions I made. It came in QUITE handy in a few last minute projects. I think it looked great – and now I’m turning the burlap into window dressing as a matter o’fact.

The Bouquets

The bouquets were parfait. No one could tell the difference. In fact, some people thought I had roses dyed to my colours. Other people thought that the flowers were made of coffee filters. BAM. None of them were right – they were the silk flowers from Chintz that I wrapped in coffee filters. BAM.  I can’t remember where I put the bouquets after the wedding. They are in someone’s garage probably.