summer /wedding

Well obviously summer finally reached us.  Since we moved into our home in the sticks late last fall, there was no landscaping of any kind done.  It is a wild wonderland, however, I have been busy trying to make it look like someone lives here lol.  That might explain why I haven't been putting too much on here of late.

Also been busy trying to plan my daughter's wedding in what is now less than 5 months away.  She has the dress, the caterer, the florist and of course the venue.  She does have to get married on a Sunday though wanting a wedding within 6 months.  Luckily there is a long weekend this winter, so her wish is my command!

We have a personalized runner which for obvious reasons we don't want people to walk on before the wedding starts.  So the dilemma was how to "rope" it off so guests will enter the rows of chairs from the outside, not from the middle aisle.  That's where these babies come in.

So we are going to be roping off the aisle with tulle.  The tulle will be gathered up at every other row with these flower balls.  The picture really doesn't do them justice.  My daughters colors are purple & silver with a winter wonderland snowflake theme. 

Started with a 4 inch styrofoam ball.  My daughter is having real flowers for her bouquets and such, but we figured I could do these ahead of time with silks.  Got little bunches of purple silk tulips from Walmart for $3 a bunch -love that they are different shades of purple, adds some dimension to the ball. First I got a transparent gray ribbon, cut into 34 inch lengths, folded in half, and glued and pinned it to the ball.  It is glued and pinned because it will be holding the weight of the ball so just wanted to be extra sure it stayed in place.  Then just take the flower heads of the wire steams and add them to the styrofoam ball.  I tried just poking them in place but found they started to fall out, so just a touch of hot glue on the bottom before poking them in the ball.  Cover the entire styrofoam ball, I used about 6 bunches for each flower ball.  Lastly I strung 4 jewels (they look like mini disco balls) onto jewelry string - or fishing line, and pinned them in the ball from the bottom.  Just for that extra sparkly bling lol.

I'm sure they will look much better at the ceremony without the ironing board behind them!!!

We're also doing a candy bar.  Got small chinese takeout boxes from Michaels - thank goodness for the Michaels 50% off coupon.  As Michaels is the only craft type store here in Northern Canada, they have no competition (say a Hobby Lobby), so they charge whatever they want.  It's a pain in the butt to buy the takeout boxes one at a time, but it does save a ton of money.  Anyway, I digress.  The point was that if you have used these, you'll know that the glitter falls everywhere.  Not exactly appetizing for your candy.  Solution?  Spray them with hairspray!!!  Honestly, it stops the glitter from falling off.  We are also going to line the boxes with silver tissue paper and just to take that up a notch, we will be stamping the corners of the tissue paper.

We're so excited for this wedding to come and see our hard work come together.  For now it's just a piece of this and a bit of that, but once it's all together, it will be awesome - because my only daughter deserves nothing less!!

Supposed to be raining all weekend here so I'll be working on an inside project, more about that when I'm done.  Otherwise, I'll be outside enjoying the glorious summer and this spot will therefore be quieter until fall.