Well I took the last photos if my wedding crafts, so here are the rest of my ideas and craft projects.
I love growing chilli plants, purely because of the way they
look and luckily the colour of chillis matched the red theme for our wedding!
So for my centerpieces I wanted living plants. Originally I considered bonsais
but I don’t have much experience with those. Then I decided to use some glass
bowls I found at Ikea to make a kind of terrarium with chilli plants and
succulents. Unfortunately the plants didn’t grow as fast as I hoped so they had
no chillis on them for the wedding, they had started flowering which was better
than nothing!
I also made little origami lights using vellum then popping
leds connected to batteries inside (basically LED throwies). They took me
forever to fold as I made 50 of them but I now know how to make them without
the instructions and they are easy enough that I can watch tv at the same time!
I didn’t want a normal wedding cake because we were already
having dessert so not many people would eat the cake anyway. I was considering
cupcakes, and also cheesecakes with all different sauces that people could put
on themselves. Then I decided that lamingtons would look cute and they tasted
so good especially since I got them with jam inside. I also got a lamington
cake purely for the cake cutting. Best thing was it only cost $100 for the cake
and about 60 lamingtons from a local bakery!
I bought a bamboo cake stand which did have a pole handle on
the top section so I just bought a bolt to hold the top plate on without the
pole. The cake covered it so no one even knew.
The cake toppers, I originally wanted those rhinestone
letters and started making them. Then I changed my mind and started making
little clay pandas with a bamboo stand. But that didn’t work out too well and I
never bothered to finish… maybe one day so I can add it to my panda collection.
In the end I used a set of salt and pepper shakers that my big sister bought me
- they are kissing pandas that have magnets for mouths to hold them together.
To add to my little addition of chillis to the wedding I
made little chillis of out marzipan that I coloured with food dye. They were
quick and easy to make and looked cute sitting on top of my lamingtons. I made
them a couple of days before the wedding as they absorb moisture easily.
For my invitations I spent ages designing and carving a bamboo stamp for the invitation and another
one for the envelope. They worked well until I super glued them onto pieces of
wood – I guess it needs to stay flexible. In the end I just scanned the image
into the computer and printed it off at the same time as the invitation text.
My favourite DIY from the wedding was the jewellery! I used
swarovski crystals, black onyx, moonstone, myuki seed beads, metal spacers and
lampwork beads and more I am sure. I learnt a lesson when making jewellery –
give your hands a break otherwise you can’t get anything done because your
fingers are so sore after days of twisting wire! I actually didn't get any specific photos
taken of the jewellery I made for the wedding but afterwards I took photos of
what I made for myself in case I lose them or break them.
