Wedding Card Trunk

 

While Lovely BM is off on his stag do i cracked on with wedding stuff! I spotted my Dad's old boarding school tuck box (off of Enid Blyton!) a little while ago and knew i wanted to use it at the wedding. I was going to line all the sides with fabric but i quite liked some of the ink stains so i decided to leave them uncovered. 

I just cut a piece of thick mount board the same size as the bottom and covered it with some cute purple flower fabric i already had and popped it in the bottom.

Then i made a really simple card banner for the top. I just cut the letters out of grey card, glued them to peach and lilac rectangles and then pegged them to some string. I juts draped that over the top and fixed it with a bit of tape - so easy and so cute!

Hessian 'Just Married' Banner (including a how to)

 

More decorations for the wedding! A hessian 'just married' bunting style banner. 

I just cut out 12 rectangles of hessian, twice a long as i wanted the finished size to be. I folded them in half long ways.

Then i sewed the three open side closed, but left 2cm open on the longer sides, at the folded end (this is to thread the string through). The edges are exposed as I was going for the rustic look

Then, with a sharpie, i just drew the letters on, its hessian and pretty rough so the drawing doesn't have to be accurate. I used a heart in the space rather than leave it blank. I then threaded some string through each letter - hey presto a banner!

Ribbon bunting

I made some ribbon bunting to see if i like it for the wedding, maybe to hang behind the cake table - marquee walls can be so white! Its just 5(ish)cm strips of coloured jersey lightly knotted onto garden twine. So easy to do and i love the final effect. Its pretty heavy so i'll have to be careful how i hang it. Could make it with satin ribbon instead maybe, then it would be lighter...

 

Anyway, its a work in progress but loving the progress so far :)