My daughter and I made a bunch of stuff for her wedding. She was married at a farm. The ceremony site was in the woods and the reception in a tent behind the barn.
This is the invitation wrapper with copper tissue underneath. I cut these on my Silhouette. Each one had to be triple cut. They took about 10 minutes EACH.
All of the table flowers. She did each table arrangement in advance, photographed them, and boxed them. When we set the tables we had everything we needed for a table in the box, and a photo to guide us. Smart!
Over the last two years we grew straw flowers, and collected wild flowers and weeds and dried them. Every arrangement is in a vintage or antique bottle. Most were my mother’s, and some were dug out of the mud at low tide, in Maine, by my daughter.
One of the bottles. We used the biggest ones for the ceremony and then moved them to the tables for dinner.
More boxes of flowers and baskets for the flower children. I collected and dried/pressed fall leaves for them to fling about.
Can you guess who drove two hours out of our way to pick up all of these flowers because we have the big car? I guess for your WEDDING you get that, but don’t make a habit of it.
A flower child. I used the leftover fabric from my daughter’s dress to make multi-purpose over garments. This child called it an apron. One wore it as a cape. Two wore them as overskirts.
Daughter had this fabric added to the dress, and (on the morning of the wedding, of course, {sigh}) I hand sewed pearl trim over the waist seam. You can see me in the mirror!
(Remember “Mom, can you make this Ren Faire dress?” Same kid.)
A few days ago I realized I hadn’t made them a card. I purchased the tree file. It had a deer in the middle, which I removed, and I added the bride and groom. The white background is a pearl shimmer cardstock, which doesn’t show up in the photo.
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