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If you’re looking for free wedding printables and wedding DIY tutorials, it’s here. We’ve got everything from wedding decor DIY projects to fashion DIY, and of course DIY wedding favors. But for the love of god, mostly everyone wants wedding invitation DIY — we’ve got it all!

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How to easily make your own awesome pop-up wedding invitations

Pop-ups can be done in many ways. Google it! We were first inspired by tribesmaid Melaina’s awesome tutorial. Here’s how we made our own awesome steampunk-ey, pop-up invitations. Then we realized there was an even easier way to do this! Here’s how…

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Make your own classy shoe clips

Ok, remember our tutorial for DIY shoe clips made with ric-rac, felt, and a glue gun? Offbeat Bride Tribe member AnneBldSvy totally rocked the fuuuuck out of that tutorial for the clips she wore on her wedding shoes. Are you freaking out? WE ARE FREAKING OUT.

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DIY Companion Cube ring box for under $10

My future husband and I love playing video games together and Portal is a favorite (even though he’s better at it than me). I saw this post on Geekologie and fell in love with the idea of a Companion Cube ring box for our wedding. So we decided to make our own.

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Make flowers out of love letters (or emails)

“Eirik handmade all the flowers. Since we met online, my bouquet was made out of paper that I had printed our very first emails to each other on. My bridesmaids’ flowers had their respective names printed on them, the moms had white flowers with “Mom” printed on them, and the groomsmen and dads had boutonnieres made out of pages from comics books.”

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Keep it cute and simple with this mini-succulent + tea lights centerpiece combo

We love it when a picture so perfectly captures a sweet, simple idea. The concept behind the centerpieces at Maeraj and Michael’s wedding is just tiny succulents in jam jars + tea lights. That’s it. The end. The result is not only lovely and clean, but your guests also get adorable little plants to take home with them.

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How to use Flickr groups to collect wedding photos from your guests

Last week, Flickr relaunched with a new design and 1TB of free photo uploads for everyone! To celebrate, we’re posting this tutorial on how to easily use Flickr to collect guest photos.