mini wedding projects
July 22, 2008
I’ve been preoccupied with last minute wedding plans and little projects. Nothing has taken lots of time individually, but combine them all and it’s plenty of work.
I uploaded our kid photos and had mini moo cards printed. The backside has our wedding date and a URL where guests can upload their own digital photos to share with us/each other. I plan on having these by by the guest book so they can take one home.
kid photo moo cards
Our awesome wedding planner Melissa is also acting as florist, and she needed a little ribbon to wrap the bouquets. Never satisfied with store-bought when I can create my own, I cut one inch strips of the flower girl silk, burned the edges, dusted them off and rolled them up for her. It’ll be a detail that most people won’t notice, but it matches my dress and the hems of the bridesmaids’ and flower girls, so I am happy.
burned edge silk ribbon
That’s it for now! I have a feeling I’ll have lots more photography posts in the future, and I’m making my friend’s wedding dress as soon as I get back from my vacation so that might make an appearance if she doesn’t mind.
See you again as a married lady.
flower girl dresses
July 6, 2008
Yippee! I am done with almost all of the things I said I wanted to sew for my wedding. I think there’s a waist sash/ribbon for one dress left, and I still have a tiny bit of hand sewing on my dress, but all of the big projects are done. I present to you…
The flower girl dresses!
flower girl dresses
They’re miniature, lighter colored versions of the bridesmaid’s dresses. The flower girls are my two nieces aged 4 and almost 9.
flower girl dress close up
An aside- while the fig tree is shade for my bedroom and nice smells for my nose, it is also raccoon/possum food and barefoot grossness, along with dog snacks if I don’t say “nonono” fast enough. One last photo for you.
death of a flip flop
You can even read the brand I was wearing if you look close enough. At least I was wearing shoes!
Neckties
July 5, 2008
Making ties for the wedding party and dads turned out easier than I thought. Preparation takes the most time; planning how to cut, especially with my hand dyed silk, is the first step. Cutting the tie and then the guts is more time consuming than the machine sewing portion. All in all I spent the better part of two days making these, all while watching/listening to “Rear Window”, “Vertigo”, “Be Kind Rewind” and a couple episodes of “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”. I feel like I never need to watch TV again.
Aqua ties in the fading July 4th light:
Back view of the ties hanging from our fig tree:
One satisfied customer:
Just imagine that tie but with a nice dress shirt, black jacket, shaven face and trimmed hair. Same groom, though. This one hangs a little funny… I will fix that.
I’m more satisfied with these than I am with the rehearsal dinner dress, but less satisfied than I am with my wedding dress. I can live with that!
