Last year, while we were planning our wedding, I shared ideas for a nontraditional guest book. Then I blogged about the idea we finally went with. The way we set it up at the wedding was this; I printed and framed the version with the circles: Next to it, we set up two bowls, one… CONTINUE READING →
One of my goals for 2013 was to finish the wedding memorabilia – i.e. the photo album and “guest book”. Preferably before our first anniversary, otherwise it would never get done. A couple of months ago I saw a coupon (on a Groupon site or similar) for a custom photo album so I jumped on… CONTINUE READING →
Today’s the last day of the wedding craft extravaganza, check out part one and part two. 1. Escort cards (big board, cardboard, washi tape, home printer; free for us because we used stuff we already had) We used a big wood board (that used to be part of a tabletop), different rolls of washi tape,… CONTINUE READING →
I’m back with the second installment of wedding crafts. Some of these things I’ve already mentioned but I haven’t talked about how we made them or how much they cost, so here you go… 1. Food signs (16€ for the mini chalkboards, plus materials already on hand like washi tape, wood dowels, twine) We used… CONTINUE READING →
Since we were self catering the wedding, we mostly wanted to keep the decor simple. However, we ended up having quite a few things, at least more than I expected. Today I’ll be sharing how we did/dealed with/set up a few of these things. 1. Streamers (25€, but I really overbought this, we still have… CONTINUE READING →
We weren’t sure we wanted to have wedding favors at first, but then we decided we could have them if we found something that would be fun & useful but also in our budget. One of our initial ideas were wooden cutting boards made by ourselves, which would’ve been great and very cost effective since… CONTINUE READING →
I’ve had lots of questions regarding the window-pane menus we had at the wedding, so I thought I’d share how they came to be. It all started with one of my wedding inspiration images from Pinterest: Image from BeyondWhite on Etsy, via Pinterest I had been obsessed with window panes for quite some time now, and… CONTINUE READING →
I hope you’re not bored with the wedding yet, because now that the recap is over I wanted to talk about the actual planning stuff. When we were planning the wedding there weren’t a lot of couples out there who had done anything similar, so I thought a mini series on self-catering and in general… CONTINUE READING →
So, where were we? Ah, yes. Cake! Like the rest of the food, the wedding cake was homemade as well. Specifically, I made it myself. I don’t remember the detailed timeline for baking the wedding cake, but I think it went something like this: Wednesday morning, in between baking the other desserts, I baked all… CONTINUE READING →
We got married at the town hall by the mayor, so the ceremony was short. But funny, apparently, judging by the pictures. There wasn’t room for everyone to sit down, so guests piled up in the back… When the ceremony was over, we signed our marriage license, and then went outside again to be greeted… CONTINUE READING →