DIY Wedding #1

My wedding is over! And what a crazy event it was! I'll be posting about that later. Right now, here are pictures of the centerpieces.

The flowers I folded out of pages from an old art textbook. My husband (I am still not used to that...) and I met in an art history class so it meant something--even if nobody else knew it! I was very to see after the wedding that no one had taken a good pictures of the entire centerpiece! Oh well, maybe a relative has one that I can get later. You can see them in this picture.

The centerpieces were simply branches put into non-matching glass vases with rocks in the bottom. For a little sparkle, I put a couple silver color stones in the bottom of the vases as well. I then put the paper flowers on the ends of the branches. They turned out simple, yet elegant. :)

DIY Cake Stands

I knew from the time I started planning my wedding that I wanted to make some DIY projects to use for the wedding. My first project was the origami flowers that I posted a picture of before. Those flowers will be used as centerpieces (pics to come later!). The projects I completed a few days ago were cake stands.

Ta Dah! Aren't they beautiful? All the stands are made of are glasses turned upside down, and plates. The shorter one actually has a candle holder as a base instead of a glass.

I epoxied the base of the glass/candle holder to the bottom of the plate, then spray painted, and voila! Simple, right? And they were cheap, too! The glasses I bought at an antique store for $6. The candle holders were about $2 at a consignment store, and the plates, also from the consignment store, were $1 each. With the cost of the epoxy and spray paint, I'd say the cost of the cake stands (I made 4 even though there are only 3 pictured) were about $5 each!

The plan is for the stands to hold cheesecakes at the wedding. :) This one will hold the "wedding cheesecake" (no wedding cake here!).

Elegant and beautiful, but also simple and cheap. Love it.

Origami

I'm not sure this is the best idea I've ever had. I want something different for my wedding centerpieces, but I still like flowers. I think I've decided to fold, what will probably end up being several dozen, origami flowers. Vintage looking sheet music would make romantic flowers...

The plan is to make these flowers, then, somehow, attach them to branches. Then I'll arrange them in pretty vases with rocks. It will be beautiful. And cheap! Now, I need to find out how many pairs of hands I can get to help.

Too bad I didn't see these flowers before I put a down payment of my fabric flowers. I could have made my own bouquet! I could have used red, white and black paper, and then painted the edges of some of the flowers with silver paint.... That would have made me a DIY diva!