Wedding Guest Book

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acrylic paint, family, guest book, love, painting, sisters, tree, Weddings

In November 2012, I went to Scotland to visit my sister and her wife. They were celebrating their marriage with a wedding (and today they got married in the US!). As a wedding present, I painted a large oak and with Distlefink love birds on a canvas to use as their guest book. I’ve been waiting for them to finish arranging the leaves before blogging about it. So I’ll just reblog her post. Make sure you click on the link to her post to see the finished pictures!

XOXO,
Young Wifey

Riotflower's Realm

My sister made our guest book for our wedding. After she consulted with us, she painted this beautiful canvas with a large oak and Distlefink love birds for a Pennsylvanian element. When she transported it over for our wedding, she cut the wooden frame and rolled the canvas. We pinned it back onto the frame roughly to display at the wedding.

Prior to the wedding, Honey and I couldn’t source oak leaf hole punchers, so we went with maple. The wedding tables were decorated with paper leaves in various colours and we asked guests to write something that we should always remember to be thankful for (and their name) on at least one leaf.
Guests wrote thoughtful, touching, simple, and funny things on these beautiful little records of a joyful day. After the wedding, we had these leaves sitting in a container in the spare room while the painting…

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Night Out Emergency Kit

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bridal party gift, DIY bride, DIY wedding, ER kit, night out emergency kit, rehearsal dinner, thank you gifts, wedding emergency kit, wedding planning, Weddings

A friend of mine purchased small clutches for her bridesmaids (now she says she wishes I’d made them) and wanted me to come up with a really small emergency kit to stuff into them and well as small kits the groomsmen could slip into their pockets. She wanted to give them their ER kits the night before at the rehearsal dinner (which gave me an idea for the groomsmen) as part of their bridal party thank you gifts.

We talked about ideas and when I mentioned including Tide®-To-Go pens and she said, the kit needs to be even smaller.

This is what I came up with for the Bridesmaids:
I included 20 bobby pins and 1 hair band; both matching the individual bridesmaid’s hair color (two blonde, one brunette and one black). I added 4 small safety pins for any clothing mishap, a mini bottle of clear nail polish (for their mani-pedi or their panty hose), a Pep-o-mint Lifesaver® to defeat bad breath, 35¢ (in a far-fetched world where their cell phone breaks and no one else around them has a cell phone), three bandages (different sizes), an individual pack of aspirin, two Pepto Bismol™ chewable tablets, a stain remover wipe, and a Stridex™ Power Pad (for their faces).

A Night Out Bridesmaid ER Kit

This is what I came up with for the Groomsmen:
I included shoe polish wipes (which the bride had picked up the last time she stayed in a hotel), 4 safety pins, 3 bandages, several packages of aspirin, 6 Pepto Bismol™ chewable tablets, a stain remover wipe, a Stridex™ Power Pad, 35¢ (I figured for their get out of jail phone call) and several Pep-o-mint Lifesavers®.

Two of the single groomsmen received and additional item in their ER Kits, but I won’t mention what it is on my wholesome blog…

After A Night Out - Groomsman ER Kit

I played around to carefully arrange these items in a small prescription medicine bottle (which I had to ask her to solicit enough from her family). I labeled the bridesmaids kits “A Night Out ER Kit” and labeled the groomsmen kits “After A Night Out ER Kit”.

Bridal Party ER Kit

I surprised the bride with one of her own as well as one for her fiance. She liked the Bridal Party Emergency Kits so much, that she asked me to make more, for her Mom, Dad, future MIL, future FIL and future step-MIL. If I ever make these again, I’ll have to paint the bottles into small tuxes and gowns.

DIY Wedding & Bridal Party Gifts

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bridesmaid survival kit, DIY, embroidery, fan programs, handmade earrings, napkin folding, wedding survival kit, Weddings

Until Death Do Us Apart…

Hubster and I got married in 2007 at a private ceremony, in 2008 we had a big wedding & reception for our families and friends.

I made everything… decorations, food, and bridal party gifts. My sister blogged about some of the wedding gifts I made for my bridal party last summer.  I embroidered tank tops for the girls to wear beforehand, made earrings for the wedding, two styles (one for the junior bridesmaids and two of the bridesmaids and longer ones for my bridesmaids who can handle the length of the chandelier earrings), gave them a pashmina, and put together a survival kit for the weekend. I did purchase my flower girl a raw pearl necklace, since she’s too young for earrings.

Embroidered Bridesmaid Tank

Junior Bridesmaid Earrings

Below are the program fans, flower arrangements, and centerpieces I made. The few days before the wedding, my family and friends helped out to bring it all together. My sister and her partner folded all 150 cloth napkins into a bishop’s hat with the directions we found at this website.

Bridesmaid Survival Kit:
I purchased a make-up bag in the wedding colors and filled it with essentials for an outdoor summer wedding. I included a travel pack of tissues, package of blotting papers, toothbrush, travel toothpaste, Tide-To-Go stick, safety pins, 7 sided nail buffer, french manicure set, etc… My junior bridesmaids received a purse in the wedding colors with more age appropriate things, lip-gloss with a heart-shaped compact, a sparkly toothbrush, and many of the things above…

My flower girl received a white ruffle purse, with a TY teddy bear, pearl necklace, small tiara, raw pearl necklace,and a pool blue sash for her white dress.

I would like to eventually post some of the recipes, more pictures, and craft directions. If you leave any questions you have on this post, I will reply to it.

XOXO,
Young Wifey