OBT member Jessica made these deer cake toppers that are so adorable they make me want to puke, in a good way.

Jessica writes, "The one with the excess flowers is "me" and the one with the top hat is my darling FW, in case it wasn't obvious. It even turned out that her's is a teensy taller than mine, just like real life. hehe."

Oh those tiny little flowers just kill me. 

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Save the Dates with convenient and creative post-it notes!? Thanks to OBT member Grafxcowgirl, (aka. Michele) I'm filing this under the "why didn't I think of that" category.

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OBT member Jordan Roberts wrote a great tutorial on how to make your own paper flower bouquet!

So I have finished my bouquet and I am really happy with how it has turned out. After taking some inspiration another OBB and using this tutorial and doing a practice run, I was finally ready to start my own.

Firstly these are made from pages torn from a French novel, I decided that instead of blotting the paper with paint on a sponge, I was going to do a streaky wash of bright red acrylic, thinned down heavily with water.

These are the pages I painted, drying on my clothes rack!

This is my table, halfway through making the roses…

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As part of "Elephun Elephant Day" I bring you OBT member Erika's awesome elephant cake toppers!

Emily wrote in her wedding planning update:

My best friend Ebay led me to some sweet salt and pepper shakers, which I will use as my cake topper. I'm a collector of elephants and these are up my alley…

Hint of Kitschy… Sweet and cheesy. Love it.

These are quite incredible Emily, good job with your bad-ass Ebay shopping skills!

This OMG OBT post brings us a tutorial from OBT member lepapillonvert on how she and her husband made their beautiful handfasting cords.

There is no right or wrong way to make handfasting cords, and they can be as elaborate or simple as you want them to be. It really comes down to what you want to represent yourselves, or what is easiest for you.

The only time the cords are to be dismantled/unknotted is in the case of a hand parting, so please remember that anything you use to decorate your cord is to remain with it for as long as you are bound to each other.

Your cord should be long enough to loop over both wrists as well as being able to make the knots.

We've read that if you are using a single cord, that a generic rule of length is ideally no less than 6 feet.

Again, it's up to you.

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