Everything I Created for my Wedding!

 Hello everyone, I hope you're doing well!

I wanted to create a blog showing you everything I created for my wedding back in August, as I spent a lot of time painting and designing things for it. Hopefully it will provide you with some tips and inspiration if you are looking to do the same for your own special occasion.

To start off with, our colour scheme was teal, blues, peach & white. As we were getting married in the summer, I wanted something light and fresh to fit the season. Our favourite colour is blue so we definitely had to incorporate it! 

My bridesmaids and myself made the bouquets with fake flowers, I got them from The Range and Shein - surprisingly good quality and cheap! We trimmed the stems with wire cutters, played around with arranging the flowers and then taped the stems in place before wrapping them in ribbon. I had teal ribbon and my bridesmaids had peach to contrast with their teal dresses. We made such a fun evening out of making them ourselves in my lounge, I would recommend it!

                  

I designed our save the dates and invites with these colours as well. I found it so much easier to decide on a colour scheme first, it made decision making a lot easier down the line. I started by doing watercolour paintings, scanning them into my laptop and editing them on Photoshop, saving the images and then piecing them together with text in a document to print. Designing these was probably my favourite part of the whole process! I used Vista Print to print everything, save the dates, ceremony & reception invites as well as the details cards. I found the site really handy as you could add on envelopes and rsvp cards etc. if you wish and they would match the size of the products you were making.

I then bought a wax seal kit with a teal coloured wax from amazon, some tracing paper from B&M and made my own wraps to hold the invite & details cards together. Saved me a lot of money making them myself and it gave them all a personal touch. It's a great feeling knowing I made them myself when everyone said how lovely they were.

The wax seal kit came with an anchor stamp to match the invites, we wanted an anchor as a nod to my husband being in the navy!

The confetti was made from biodegradable tissue paper and my bridesmaids kindly helped me create loads with a heart shaped holepunch! It was time consuming but another excuse to get together and chat all things wedding!

For my table center pieces I collected loads of empty wine & gin bottles and painted flowers on them. I just used acrylic paint and it stuck nicely to the glass. They looked pretty enough without being painted with the flowers in them but I wanted to add a personal touch and include my art in little bits of the wedding. I got some cheap twine and wrapped it round the neck of the bottles to add a rustic feel.

I thought it would be good to have some sort of sign for the order of the day so set out to make a rustic style pallet sign. This was just one left over from my dad's work that he kindly bought home and painted white. I then got some cheap pastel paint pens from The Range which had light blue & peach pens which were perfect to match our colour scheme! I lightly wrote everything on the pallet in a calligraphy style with pencil before going over it in the paint markers. I did two layers to make the letters thicker and the colours really stand out.

My next favourite thing to make was our welcome sign. Luckily my friend's husband managed to get mw two pieces of wood from his work free of charge, one for this sign and the other I made into a seating plan. I tried to mimic the design of our invites so it all linked and there was a theme. I used acrylic paint and the white paint marker that came with my pastel set from The Range for the text. It was such a lovely afternoon spent sat in my garden painting this in the sunshine! 

             

For the seating plan, I created print outs for who was sat at each table, using the same design as my invites. For these as they were printed slightly bigger, I just printed them at home on my own printer. They were A5 size so I can fit two on an A4 sheet of paper. I bought slightly thicker cartridge paper to print them on and attached them to the wood with glue dots. I then used the wax seal again as I had loads left over to seal the tops straight onto the wood. This just gave it a bit more detail and bought the theme together. I used the white paint pen again for the calligraphy at the top and attached a premade flower arrangement to the top with a glue gun. The flower arrangement was from The Range as well.

                                 

This photo frame believe it or not used to be a table! I'm very lucky to have a dad who is good at DIY and has lots of tools in his shed! The round frame was a tabletop which he cute the middle out of, and he had a metal frame lying around in the garage, so we painted both bits white and drilled them together. I added some fake ivy vines to the legs just to make it look a bit prettier and fit in with our floral theme. Using the same blue paint marker, I wrote around the edge of the frame so when people look back on their photos with the frame they will have a little reminder of our wedding date.

Lastly, for some guest entertainment throughout the day, I made a canvas that everyone could paint. We thought this would be something different and interactive that everyone would enjoy. And great for the kids! I got a blank canvas, a variety of acrylic paints, brushes and a pallet from The Range and created a little box to place next to the canvas. We also used this as our guest book, leaving a blank notebook and a nice pen in the box as well so once people had painted, they could let us know by signing the book. I created some instructions on Canva.com and printed it on A4 paper at home. Luckily my friend is a teacher and could laminate it for me! And we popped that in the back of the box for people to read. It went down really well and we now have a keepsake from the wedding to look back on.

So there you are! These are the main things I created for our wedding. I hope it gives you some ideas and if you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to chat :) 

I'll sign off with a few photos from the day ...