Ring Boy Capes.

I saw this idea online somewhere but I haven’t been able to find a link to it. I love super heroes, so as gifts for my three nephews/ring boys, I made them each a super hero cape. It was going to just be a gift, but at the last minute decided to let them wear them down the aisle.


I also gave Zane a Sonic the Hedgehog stuffed animal, and Jude a Hamster Webkinz animal (he had a hamster that died a couple years back and has missed him ever since). They carried them around everywhere the whole wedding day. Here is Jude with his under his arm. So cute=)

Flowers Down The Aisle

Since you’ve realized by now that I wasn’t really planning on having flowers at my wedding, one more spot you can usually expect them is tossed down the aisle right before the bride walks down. Since I had to cut out quite a few pages from the ring book, instead of wasting it I bought a heart shaped paper cutter and cut all the extra scraps of paper into hearts to toss down the aisle. Since I didn’t have a ton though, I dried some flowers that a friend had given me and will be mixing the dried flower petals in with the paper hearts.

I also bought this cool metal basket at Michael’s for about $4.00 to put them in.

UPDATE** I ended up not using any of this. Lol sad I know, but in the busy-ness of the wedding day the basket filled with paper hearts got lost, and instead of dried flowers (due to me not knowing much about flowers, not drying them long enough, and them getting moldy…) Tricia had already sprinkled some white flowers down the aisle, and then Genesis, my bridesmaid/ flower girl sprinkled down some blue flowers on top. But hey, be inspired to do something different anyway=)

Ring Book

I wasn’t exactly looking for an alternative to the fluffy white pillow that is carried down the aisle by little boys. I mean, I’m completely ok with my ring having comfort, but, while browsing around I saw a couple different “ DIY ring books” ushttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifed instead of a ring pillow, and I thought it was pretty awesome right away. I love books. I love to read them, write them, and some just look cool. So in search of the perfect book I hit up a couple Goodwill’s and thrift stores, until I came across a book titled “From This Day Forward”, yep, seemed pretty perfect to me. I’m not really going to go into detail how I made a lot of the things I’ve made if I found the idea on another blog, so I will just be attaching the links at the end of my posts.







Mentioned in this post: 1. ring book how-to

Bouquets

I’ve never had a favorite flower, so whenever I tried to think of flowers for my wedding I just couldn’t picture them. Curious as to what other options were out there I started to google one night to see what I could find. One of the first blogs/ sites I came across had these crystal beads that I thought looked kind of cool, but I just glanced over and kept searching. I kept going back to that site though and the more I looked at them the more I liked them. I especially liked the fact that I could make them myself, and although the instructions said it was very time consuming, being months before the wedding, it would give me something to do. I used silver wire, two different shaped clear crystal beads, tiny navy blue beads, and brown ribbon to wrap them in. It did take a lot of time (and I only had to make five! I can’t imagine if I was having a bigger wedding party), but I’m not sure exactly how much time because since I started way in advance I really just worked on them whenever I had free time or got bored.
A couple weeks or so before the wedding, Luke (who never liked my wire crystal bead bouquets=( ) was talking about flowers and mentioned having a bouquet of real flowers. I was like, "welllll I've been working on these forever and I really like them now.." But the more I thought about it, I wondered about putting both ideas together.. So I told Luke, Luke told Katie (his girlfriend), and Katie told Tricia (Katie's mom). Next thing I know, Tricia stopped by my work to show me what she had come up with, this crazy awesome bouquet!
Everyone knows I've never been in love with flowers like some girls, and I never thought I could love flowers so much, but, Tricia has changed my mind more than once.

So the finished product.. My crystal beads strung on silver wire, mixed in with her white and brown flowers (and no, I don't even know what kind they were.. hah). Amazing!!




Mentioned in this post: 1. blog where I saw bouquet idea
2. Tricia's talent aka Westover's Flowers & Gifts