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Ok, first: do you have the ULTIMATE downloadable printable, the Offbeat Bride Checklist? If not, you should definitely grab that.
The thing is, this list isn't even close to being complete. That's where you come in. If you know of any awesome free downloads that you used in your wedding and party planning, let me know in the comments and I'll add it. It will grow like The Blob and consume all our craft projects with it! Ahem… well, you get the idea. But if you start to get overwhelmed and need a break… we have a printable for that, too.
(Each picture links to its original source.)
Invitation, save-the-dates, and thank-you cards downloads
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- Vintage postcard textures from Bittbox
- Free, high-resolution stock photography at Morguefile
- Lots of vintage clip art from Graphics Fairy
- Free fonts from Font Squirrel
- Free retro fonts from demilked
- Scrabble Tile images from Fuzzimo
- Invitation templates from Download & Print
- Retro and pin-up illustrations from Far Far Hill
- Bicycle thank-you cards from The Sweetest Occasion
- “Will you be my bridesmaid” cards from Love vs. Design
- “Thank you for being my bridesmaid” cards
Centerpieces and table decor
- Rustic chalkboard table numbers from Love vs. Design
- Menu and table number template from Ruffled Blog
- Confetti Mad Libs from Love vs. Design
- Halloween place cards from Fantasy Jr.
- Place cards for perforated card stock from Martha Stewart
- Vintage-look paper placemats from The Pretty Blog
- Pop-up ribbon award place cards from Love vs. Design
- Food allergy-specific place cards from Marry This!
- Ice breaker place cards from Marry This!
- Star Wars printables from Toy-A-Day
Photo booth props
- Tons of mustaches from Catch My Party
- Bowties, lips, and glasses from Sandy Anger Studios
- Batman, hats, and glasses and kings, sunglasses, and cops from Oh Happy Day
- Mardi Gras masks from Ellinee Journal
- Superhero masks (PDF) from Ambrosia Girl
- Photo booth sign from Wedding Chicks
Decor patterns and paper craft templates
- Striped flag bunting from Love vs. Design
- Fabric bunting pattern from Chickabug
- “Yay” flags from Offbeat Bride
- Message flags from Martha Stewart
- Retro mini flags from Love vs. Design
- Halloween silhouettes from nobiggie
- “Just Married” paper banner from DIY Fanatic
Recipe cards from The Sweetest Occasion - Spooky spell book cover (that would make an awesome book for an officiant to hold!) from Chickabug
- Vintage-look labels (PDF) from Ruche
- Vintage-style admission tickets from Miss Cutiepie
- Cute recipe cards for a recipe guest book from The Sweetest Occasion
- Letter banner cutouts from This Mommy Loves
- Superhero logo patterns from Sugar Tot Designs
Beverage baubles
- Pirate flags for drinks from Paging Supermom
- Customizable labels for jars and bottles from The Idea Room
- Faux chalkboard labels and Apothecary jar labels from World Label
- Paper straw flags from Polka Dot Made
Cupcake wrapper templates
- Fancy cupcake wrappers from Oh Crafts
- Cupcake wrapper templates from Skip to My Lou
- Scalloped cupcake wrappers from Banana Frog
Paper and fabric flower templates
- Ornate six-petal flowers from UCreate
- Recyled paper flowers from How About Orange
- Paper rose template from Ellinee Journal
- Paper flower backdrop garland from Ellinee Journal
- Paper rose template from Martha Stewart
- Needle-felted flower pins from FaveCrafts
- Tissue paper flowers from The Craftinomicon
- Crepe paper daffodils from Martha Stewart
Favors
- Printable “thank you” jam labels from Offbeat Bride
- Vintage-look lunch bag printables (that would be super cute as favor or welcome bags) from Funkytime
- Seed packet graphics from Just Something I Made
- Paper petal/confetti/rice cones from Scrapbooks Etc.
- Printed favor bags from DIY Wedding
- Baked goods tags from Homestyle
- Jam jar labels from Jones Design
- “Made with Love” jar labels from eighteen25
- Paper fortune cookies from Kind Over Matter
- Cootie catcher/fortune teller from Skip to My Lou
- Printable favor box from I Still Love You
- Bubble labels from Merriment Design
- Paper bookmark gift tag from Simply Modern Mom
- Bird bookmarks from How About Orange
Wedding program templates
- DIY wedding program printables from Minted
- Colorful interactive program wheels from Offbeat Bride
- “So you're going to sit through a wedding” (funny wedding program) from Offbeat Bride
- Program covers from Martha Stewart
- Tree personality type wedding program from Martha Stewart
- Program booklet template from Chica and Jo
- Fan-style programs from Aylee Bits
Fingerprint trees and guest book templates:
- Template from Offbeat Bride
- Guest book poster from Love vs. Design
- Template from One Fine Day
- Wedding “hankies” template from Eat Drink Chic
- Guest book advice cards from Marry This! (Alert: heteronormative!)
Ready for more? Check out some of these posts:
We've got a whole archive FULL of unique wedding programs. Here are a few of our faves:
See even more nontraditional wedding programs!
Did we miss any good ones? Link your favorite freebie printables in the comments!
About the Author: Catherine Clark
Catherine Clark loiters at her local library, makes art, watches movies en masse, plays video and tabletop games, poorly cooks healthy things, cuddles with her feline fur babies, and blogs at BijouxandBits.com.
I don’t have a complete list of the “best” ones, but man alive are papercraft projects pretty much the most awesome way to have theme centerpieces, flower accents, decor– really, anything you can think of for any type of interest, geekery, nerdy video games, whatever– and yeah, they take a little time, but you can have a 4-foot World of Warcraft centerpieces for the cost of a piece of paper. (Plus they make AWESOME getting-to-know-you/bring the bridal party together activities)
Awesome
http://www.papercraft-world.blogspot.com/
http://www.instructables.com/community/Cool-Free-Papercraft-Links/
ROBOTS!
http://www.wonderhowto.com/news/wonderment/50-free-papercraft-robot-downloads-0116473/
Hmm…I wish the guest book advice cards didn’t say “Bride and Groom” or would let users change that. Oh well. Nice idea.
This is so great! Thank you!!
We designed and used one of the free monograms from Wedding Chicks on our invites: http://www.weddingchicks.com/freebies/custom-monograms/ . They also have free invite suites, but the text on those wasn’t customizable enough for my liking.
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ has some great title page borders and assorted clip art from old books(shocker!) for free. that’s where we found our save the date and rsvp card borders!
I love you right now for that MorgueFile link. Not as a bride (though I am one…) but as an architecture student who has to frequently make posters and can never find high res photos to use!
It’s a great resource. You’ll run into selection issues sometimes, but you can’t beat the price!
SO MUCH that is absolutely mega in just one post … busy downloading some of the great fonts right now. THANK YOU!!!!!
How about cut-out dolls as a favour? We made scrolls tied up in ribbon as a favour for an 80th birthday party using Betty Boop. Went down a treat! Can’t find the page we used but here’s a link to LOADS of free paper doll downloads http://www.colorcutandcreate.com/i_paper_people.php and also http://www.squidoo.com/printable-paper-dolls
Thank you so much!
Another great font site is http://www.dafont.com/.
Here are a few that I’ve done which included templates/access to artwork used.
– Bat garland – http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/make-a-beautiful-bat-garland-t-129674 & updated at http://thehappyheathen.com/?p=1805
– Silhouette candleholders – http://www.designsponge.com/2009/10/diy-project-evitas-spooky-silhouette-candleholders.html
– Aged labels – http://thehappyheathen.com/?p=1904
I’ll try to dig up more!