Join two families with flowers
Both of our mothers carried a different wild flower to combine in one vase to symbolize the joining of two families. Later in the ceremony, instead of a unity candle, we each added a white daisy to the bouquet.
Ask your shower guests to gift you flowers
Offbeat Bride reader Wendy had a great way to not only get her wedding flowers for free, but to also improve her landscaping at home at the same time.
Snip the stamen and 12 other tiny, unexpected ways to minimize chaos on your wedding day
Do you know what to do if your best man is giving a totally inappropriate speech? Or how a shoe organizer can keep your wedding day stress levels down? Or what kind of easy-to-encounter wedding day stain is 100% permanent? Probably not. Luckily as a professional wedding photographer, Angie Gaul has been privy to hundreds of weddings. Here are her suggestions for small, surprising ways to reduce your wedding day havoc .
How to make your own light-up, leather lotus flowers
For my wedding, I decided I needed to have the most powerful flower in Magic in my bouquets and decorations, because I am obviously a powerful wizard. But even without the Magical connotations, it’s still super neat looking, so I thought maybe some folks here might be interested in making some of their own light-up lotus out of leather.
DIY ribbon flowers for your bouquets, boutonnieres, decor, and more
I never counted how many ribbon roses I made before the wedding. Let’s just say the number is probably somewhere in the mid-to high-hundreds, and I can now do them in my sleep! They started as something cool I wanted to have in my bouquet, and ended up being visible almost everywhere in the wedding. Here are all the different ways I used ribbon roses to decorate my wedding…
Crown yourself queen of spring weddings with this DIY flower crown
Check out this flower child and Mother Earth fabulousness. I am digging some big-ass colorful flowers for a spring wedding crown. How gorgeous would this look with something like this vintage-inspired dress or this bohemian sleeved dress? Read more to learn how to craft your own fancy floral headpiece.