Wedding Crafts

My motto when planning our wedding was to keep it simple, but as a crafty person I knew the day would have to have some personal touches. I didn't end up making too much for the wedding but we certainly had some bits of DIY craftynesss.

First up - we grew wheatgrass for our centre pieces. My husband gets all the credit for this - he did many tests in the months leading up to the wedding. (You can even see a blurry version of him in the background here!)

They sure looked fun packed into the back of my wee car:

Next - the die cutter at work got some serious attention from me in the weeks leading up to the wedding. I'd bring my paper and spend lunch hours cutting out letters. Then get home and realize I missed one letter and have to go back the next day!

  I made a series of directional signs for guests:

A sign for our DIY photobooth:

(Amanda is a great model)

I made this "Just Married" sign:

I also used the die cutter for our seating chart but can't find a photo of it just now.

My very favourite craft of the whole wedding was a "Just Married" bunting that was displayed behind Dave & I at our "Sweetheart Table" at the reception:

 (with another shout out to Candy by Katie here!)

I had just envisioned this in my head, and made it (with lots of help from my dear friend Amy) with no real idea of where or how we'd used it on the day. Any of you who follow this blog will know it is very similar to the Happy Birthday Banner - the 'Just Married' one was the original bunting - but I kept it top secret until the wedding!  I was just thrilled when it worked out that it looked so perfect on this screen behind us!

Those are all the crafts that I can take credit for but I used the expertise of some other crafty people and think they deserve a shout out. You've already heard about Candy by Katie - but here are the others.

Our invites and a graphic for the ceremony program were done by LovliDay from etsy. I just love her work and was so impressed with the speed and quality of everything I purchased from her. In addition, one of my other favourite things was our guest book. Another one of LovliDay's products - the Wedding Tree. (click the link, you won't regret it)

My next shout out goes to my wonderful mother who made the dessert. Our reception was lunch/brunch time and I really wanted carrot cake cupcakes. Taking this task seriously, my mom created samples with multiple recipes and icing types - taste testing those was so fun. We chose our favourite and here's a photo of them as we were icing them the day before the wedding:

(the caterer garnished with a strawberry on top and berries on the plate - yum!)

Needless to say we had lots of fun icing them:

You may have also noticed a heart shaped cake in those photos. We had decided to do the traditional cake cutting and so asked my mom if she could also make a heart shaped carrot cake. Not only did she do that - she truly made a beautiful wedding cake (would you even know she'd never made one before?):

Thank you mom!

I think those are all the bits of crafty brilliance to share - but I need to also give a special shout out to our photographer as his talents have given us the most beautiful memories of a day we never want to forget! (and he deserves credit for some of the photos above!) Check out his work: http://www.NikPix.ca or http://www.facebook.com/NikPix.ca - if you 'like' him on facebook you can check out more photos of the big day!