Will You Be My Bridesmaid?

I made these "Will You Be My Bridesmaid" kits back when I first got engaged, but never got a chance to send them out because we moved and I somehow misplaced them all (bummer)! However, I really think they turned out adorable and wish that I could have sent them out to my girls.

The kits are comprised of frames, personalized wine glasses, cork coasters, and a note. I painted the wine glasses myself, first time I've ever painted on glasses. I made them reflect the bridesmaid dresses and then added their initial. I used Folk Art acrylic paint and it did well on the glass. I also made the cork coasters out of Barefoot Wine corks (my favorite wine, ever). I just hot glued the corks in the design I wanted and added a little bit of ribbon for decoration.

 

 So sad that I wasn't able to send these out. Cute project, though!

DIY Bridal Shower Centerpieces

Something important that y'all should know about my life: Thursday nights are always girls nights at my house. We normally drink wine, cook dinner, and do crafts (fun night, right?). This past Thursday, one of my wonderful bridesmaids, Julie, came over to help create the bridal shower centerpieces.

I had no idea what I wanted to do, I just knew that I wanted it to be simple with a little bit of drama. I've been looking at a lot of ideas on Pinterest (of course) and I noticed that I liked the look of vases with ribbon.

I was lucky enough to inherit about 50 vases from a girlfriend who got married last summer. She just gave them all to me. Well, there were ten of one certain type, so we choose those to use as the centerpieces, since we didn't need that many. The rest will be used for the wedding centerpieces (post to come soon, just started working on them!).

I went to Michaels and bought thick white ribbon, and skinny navy and pink ribbon (our wedding colors). I also picked up some pink daisies. I only spent $10 at Michaels because I had a 30% off coupon. I had previously purchased a large amount of silver willow branches from someone on Craisglist for only $30. I swear, coupons and Craigslist is the way to go. I never buy anything at Michaels without a coupon, because they send me them every week. And you can find the most random things on Craigslist. Never rule out anything you see on there, because you can turn anything into something.

We hot glued the ribbon to the vases and then added the daisies. Then, we cut the willow branches to the length we wanted and viola! Here's the result:

 

The only thing that I need to do is re-paint the willow branches silver. The paint chipped on all the ends from cutting it. But, that will be easy! I just love them. They will be bright and add the drama that I'm looking for. Hope y'all like!

DIY Bridal Shower Invitations

Since my whole life is consumed by my upcoming wedding, I though it would be fitting to have my first blog post about wedding crafts! I pride myself on being a bride that can do mostly everything DIY, without spending ridiculous amounts of money on something that can be done by me.

My Bridal Shower is in June, so it's almost time to send out the invitations. Now, I looked on all the popular invitation websites, but their pricing was ridiculous. I mean, $1 - $2 on each invite?! At 75 people, that's a lot of unnecessary spending. So, I took it into upon myself and make them on my own.

First off, Michaels is a wonderful, wonderful place. I was able to pick up a pack of 100 plain  white invitations with envelops for $14.99 plus a 20% off coupon. I also scored awesome bright pink invitation insert holders on clearance for $2.99 for a 25 count (I picked up three). That's a total of about $20 for the materials. Not bad!

Once I got home, I designed a simple word document for the layout of my invites and then printed them out. Easy as that! Once they were all printed, I stuffed them into the insert holders and into the envelopes, and handed them off to my bridesmaid to send out.

I love them, I think the end result is simple and classy, which is exactly what I'm going for. What do y'all think about it?