DIY Lit Floral Centerpiece

Here is a really pretty and simple to make floral centerpiece idea. I put these together for an evening baby shower, however they would be great for any occasion! The led lights inside of the mercury glass create a beautiful glow. Follow the detailed steps below to create your own!

First mix together your flower food with 1 quart of water. You will want to use a container with a pouring spout.

Pour water about halfway up each water tube. Place lid back onto the water tube and stick 2-3 different florals in each tube.

Place your battery powered led light strands in each of your vases. 

I found mine at Target on clearance for under $5 each.

Begin placing your florals in the vase, arranging them to create a balanced centerpiece. You may need to go back and trim different stems shorter once your have all of the flowers in place. I also used fake succulents to help fill the vase. I found mine on Save-on-crafts.com. 

Teal Sprinkle Rimmed Glasses

We celebrated my sister last night at her Bridal Shower, and we had a lot of fun! Our friend Andrea from Lime Flower Studio took lots of pictures of the evening, and I can't wait to share them! These were the only pictures I took yesterday and thought I would share them. My sister's wedding colors are teal and silver, so I rimmed some glasses in teal sprinkles for a mudslide punch! I also rimmed some others in silver sanding sugar for the Coconut Mojitos. My sister-in-law made the mudslide punch and I plan to share the recipe soon. They were really yummy!

 

Just two simple steps to make these:

Step one: Dip the rim of the glass in melted white chocolate almond bark.

Step two: Dip the white chocolate into the sprinkles until covered.

The teal sprinkles are from Sweet Estelle's Etsy Shop and the grey striped paper straws are from my Etsy shop here. I would love to have an assortment of sprinkles in my shop, so fun! And these were the perfect color for the shower!

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Free Printable Save the Date Cards

How adorable are these save the date cards? I love the colorful bunting and simple, clean design. The best part is that they are customizable and free! You can find them here at The Wedding Chicks. All you do is enter your information and then download your free image! They even offer a return address label to match.

Paper Straws in My Etsy Shop

DIY Ring Bearer Pillow

My sister is getting married in January and had the idea of making the ring bearer pillow out of burlap. She bought the fabric flower that we attached to the pillow on sale at Francesca's Collections. This was a really easy and inexpensive wedding project and didn't take us long to put together.

First cut two squares from the burlap, ours were about 6"x6" squares.

 Next pin together the squares with the right sides facing in, however with the burlap it probably won't make a difference which way you face the fabric. Sew along the edge leaving an opening in one side to fill with batting.

Turn the pillow right side out and fill with the batting. Next pin the opening closed and then sew along the edge.

Next we cut a piece of ribbon that is long enough to tie a bow with the rings on it. We found the center of the ribbon and clipped it onto the back of the flower. The flower also has a pin on the back, which we used to attach it to the pillow. If you are making your own flower without a clip and a pin you will want to attach the ribbon to the back of the flower and then to one side of the burlap before you pin both squares of the burlap together. You can easily attach the flower and ribbon by hand sewing it onto the burlap.

 

 

Mason Jars

Such a cute idea, especially for the summer time! 

Found this idea on TheBridalBlog.com via Brides.com

 These floating flowers look so pretty!
Found this picture on Casasugar

Simple, Affordable, and Beautiful
Found on intimateweddings.com

Here's a DIY Mason Jar project by Heather Bullard.
Click here to find out how to make one!

I recently bought 150 mason jars for my Sister-in-laws wedding. I love the look of the old fashioned mason jars, and think it is so fun to look at all of the creative ways you can now use them! For the wedding we are going to be using them as lanterns hanging in the trees, to create a lit pathway using candles, and hanging on the chairs going down the ceremony isle with fresh flowers. We found the mason jars at Costco in packs of 12. They come in two different sizes, costing about $7 to $8 per 12 jars.

DIY Water Bottle Labels

I recently took some pictures of my brother and his fiance Tara so that they could have some pictures to frame at their wedding. After taking them Tara thought it would be cute to print labels for water bottles with some of the pictures on them. So, I began searching the web for templates and came across a template with a damask patterned background on the ruffledblog.com. I changed it up a bit to have only the damask background and added pictures to the majority of the labels.

Tara's Bridal Shower

This past weekend we celebrated with my brother's fiance, Tara. We had a bridal shower and bachelorette party. It was a lot of fun to spend the day celebrating with her and be able to meet all of her friends and family. I made the cake for her shower, and had a lot of fun making it. It only needed to serve 25 to 30 people, but I ended up making enough cake for about 90! I just wanted to make it three tiered, so there were lots of leftovers. The color of their wedding is the purple color i used on the cake and they are having orchids in the wedding. Tara made a wonderful suggestion for the cake flavor and filling (that I believe they are having as their wedding cake). I made white cake with a lemon mousse and raspberry preserve. It was a really good combination of flavors!

At the shower they had a champagne bar, where you could make your own champagne drinks. They had champagne flutes out, with different recipes to follow. This was such a cute idea! They had all different mixers; orange juice, a peach puree, strawberry mixer, pomegranate juice, pineapple juice, and other fun things to add.