DIY Bridal Bouquet

  One great way to save some money with your wedding day plans, is to make your own bouquets. Buying wholesale flowers, and of course flowers in season help. And if you have never made a floral arrangement in your life - I found a great blog post on etsy.com. Brookelynn Morris staff writer for Craftzine offers tips to help design your own arrangement with ease.

Materials Needed:

Flowers

Large clippers

Floral Scissors

28 gauge floral wire

Wire cutters

Floral tape

Rubber bands

3-4 yards of lace and ribbon

Decorative straight pins

   For those new to the art of floral arrangements, I recommend practicing these steps & playing around with your color palette ahead of time. You can usually find little deals at your local farmers market on in-season flowers. And just think, practicing only equals lovely little arrangements around your home.
   For the detailed step-by step process, please visit etsy's original post. 

  For more money saving wedding tips:
Cost of A Wedding

Budget Saving Tip: Bridal Gown
Budget Worksheet
Wedding Budget
Money Saving Tip: Alcohol

String Gardens!!

I came across this website recently and thought what a neat idea. I would love to see this applied to a wedding ceremony/reception. If this inspires any of you to create something cool with this idea, I would love to post the images.

Check out String Garden's Website . If you have a chance also check out the section on their site titled 'moving'. The bumble be is cute and almost in rhythm with the music.

Love Bird Themed Wedding Inspiration

Love Birds!

DIY Wedding Flower Garland / Bird Seating Cards  Love Bird Cake Topper / Peony Bouquet / Bird Salad Plate / Birds' Nest Cupcakes / Badgley Mischka Heels / Perched Necklace / Daisy Birdhouse / DIY Bird Mobile

Bird Table Settings / Edible Birds Nests /  Signature Ecru Save-the-Date / Bird Nest Place Holder / DIY Wall Hanging Bottles / Cream Gown / DIY Seating Cards / DIY Paper Bird Cages

DIY Ideas Center Piece Website

I was recently given a hot tip on a new site with some really nice Do-It-Yourself centerpiece ideas. The site is Object Spendor.  And not only do they supply the list of everything you need, you can purchase the list right there on the site. This makes it so easy to determine how much you will spend & help you stick to your budget.

And they offer helpful tips on how to reuse these same items for another project. Which is a way cool, earth-friendly approach that many brides are looking for today.

Publish Post

Thanks! Lisa from Delicious Desserts for passing this along!

And for our other DIY projects idea posts visit:

DIY on Design Sponge

Martha Stewart Center Piece on A Budget

DIY Center Pieces on Rachael Ray

DIY Seating Place Cards

Shades of Yellow in the Center

Yellows of all shades and hues seem to be the color of the season. I just love this yellow center piece on Martha Stewart - yellow begonias, multiple shades of ranunculus and white garden roses.

Fancy Paper Lanterns on Crafty Nest

Plain paper lanterns made fancy by Craft Nest.  This is an easy do-it-yourself project to add a little pizzaz to your paper lantern decorations. Check out Crafty Nest for the instructions.

Click here for another easy DIY project for making potted seating place cards.