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Wedding junk mail: When life gives you garbage, make confetti!

With my marketing and public relations background, I really should have known that once I started calling vendors, my name would wind up on someone’s mailing list. For the last several weeks, I have been receiving regular junk mail from my area’s WIC staple vendors. So I’ve come up with several solutions of what to do with all that gross junk mail…

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The wedding program with a built-in pocket for confetti (or favours!)

I wanted a cheap one-sheet wedding program that I could print myself, and an non-messy way for the maple leaf ash seeds (helicopter seeds) to be both distributed and contained during the ceremony. I couldn’t find any straight-forward ways of doing it by Googling, so I wasted a couple of hours folding paper and found the solution!

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How to DIY festive ribbon wands instead of throwing confetti

It took about 3.5 hours to make 50 ribbon wands, which wasn’t so bad. Here’s how you can make them yourself.

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Papier mache confetti ball favors for your New Year’s and holiday season wedding!

Celebrating New Year’s Eve is super fun. Weddings are a celebration of something new as well. Why not inject your event with some holiday and/or New Year’s excitement with these papier mache confetti balls!?

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Seven rice tossing and send-off alternatives for a very dramatic exit

Looking for alternatives to rice throwing at the end of your ceremony or reception? Glad you asked. Here are some bitchin’ ways to give your guests a reason to throw stuff at your face. You know they want to…