I took a hiatus from my blog immediately prior to and following my wedding. I got crazy busy, as I assume most brides can understand. Now that all of the wedding craziness is over, I have so many things to post! I made almost all of my wedding decorations and gifts. I’m still waiting on my mom to send me my sister’s pictures (she was instructed to take pictures of everything I made for my blog), but there are a few things I can post in the mean time. I plan to kind of go in chronological order as things were used during the wedding weekend. Hopefully I don’t miss anything that way.
The first homemade item to make an appearance was my rehearsal bow-quet. It’s been a long-standing tradition that a rehearsal bouquet be created from the ribbons from the wedding shower. I made one. I’m a little unhappy that this is going to be the first thing to go on the blog. I ended up not having a ton of time to work on it and quickly threw it together the night before the rehearsal. I do think the idea would be really cute if fully implemented.
My goal was to make a whole bouquet of ribbon rosettes and wrap any leftover ribbons around the stems. Since I was short on time, I only made three rosettes and wrapped the rest of the ribbons around. The rosettes were overwhelmed by the other ribbons.
Materials:
- The ribbons from the wedding shower
- Something to use for the flower stem (I used leftover stem from artificial flowers we used in the wedding. Green pipe cleaners would make a great stem.)
- Scissors
- Either a needle and thread or hot glue
Instructions:
- Make the desired number of rosettes. (I used the same technique to make the ribbon rosettes that was used to make the burlap rosettes in my Burlap Roses post. The technique is described in Snug as a Bug Baby’s blog. I honestly don’t think I can do a better job describing the technique than she does, and since I did it very last minute, I did not take the time to take pictures of every step. For this project I used a needle and thread instead of hot glue. The concept is the same, simply stitch each “petal” in place instead of gluing it. The three rosettes turned out really cute. I just wish that I had time to make more of them.)
- Wrap the rosettes in any remaining ribbon
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 10 minutes per rosette
Overall Experience: Good. I wish that I had time to make more rosettes
