Whether gift or decor, these DIY embroidered vintage photos are AWESOME
I once found an old photo album at a thrift store and I remember feeling captivated looking through the photos of those strangers’ lives. The last photo I saw was a wedding photo. Since then I’ve had a fascination with vintage photos as well as incorporating something of myself creatively, like weaving myself into the scene in a way. So I tried embroidering right onto a copy of the photo!
I could see these DIY embroidered vintage photos as a beautiful gift for an engaged couple, a creative way to display your own family wedding photos, or as lovely wedding decor and centerpieces.
How to make a DIY bouquet display (or how I learned to not hide my hard work in a closet)
Now that you’re married, you can start on the next chapter of your life: dealing with all of the stuff left over from your wedding! If you’re anything like I am, you probably have some important items from your wedding you might not want to stick in a shoe box in the back of the closet quite yet. For me, it was my fantasy sword bouquet. Here’s how I made a DIY bouquet display to keep it in view forever.
Show off your invitation suite as decor on a cork board at your wedding
Did you put effort into your invitations and want them to get a little more love? Turn that hard work and prettiness into some additional decor at your ceremony or reception by showing it off on a cork board! Hell, you paid for it, it’s gorgeous, it needs to shine, right? Plus, cork boards are cheap and come in a million varieties.
Use colorful yarn pom-poms as aisle decor
Remember Kimber and Kaylee’s super colorful and boho chic wedding? It’s always so worth revisiting, especially for the decor. One tiny detail that we loved (which you could totally DIY) is the yarn pom-pom aisle decor.
If you make these and have extra, string them into garland, add them to your bouquet, or re-use them as cat toys after the wedding.
A fandom welcome sign that steals our geeky hearts
One element that managed to combine all of these fandoms and movies into one was their ceremony welcome sign. It paid homage to all kinds of book and movie couples (both romantic and platonic): Lupin and Tonks, Cas and Dean, Arthur and Merlin, Westley and Buttercup, Angel and Buffy (ahem, shouldn’t this be Spike?), SLOTH AND CHUNK(!), and Carl and Ellie.
Channel the Upside Down with this Stranger Things garland
If your wedding has an element of the creepy about it (Halloween wedding? Horror wedding? TV-inspired wedding?), perhaps this Stranger Things garland is the ceremony or reception backdrop you need. You can even snag a custom set of letters to spell out your name, wedding hashtag, or a message from the Upside Down.