Bouquets play a very important part in your wedding day plans. Bouquets set your theme and color pallet for you, they also play a part in the décor and style for your wedding design.

Many types of bouquets are made from tissue paper, mulberry paper, or crepe paper. You can order individual paper flowers that you can find online already made. Bouquets can be found already put together for you. These flowers are eco friendly and come in many different types and colors.

The different types of paper flower bouquets that can be made or purchased are nosegay bouquets, round bouquets, cascading bouquets, presentation bouquets, hand tied bouquets, tussy mussy bouquets, and crescent bouquets that you can make out of the paper or you can order paper flower bouquets online.

To make paper flower bouquets you can find books, e- books, videos and news letters on many types of flowers that can be made and types of bouquets to make. Some take a little time and some are easy but well worth it.

Designers are using paper flowers for their models hair pieces and runways, it’s a Victorian trend that has came back and setting a new trend for today’s brides.

Making paper flower bouquets are eco friendly, fun to make and a great keepsake for everyone involved. Plus you can pick and choose your colors and types of flowers you want in your bouquets. This makes the flowers more personal for your special day.

Bouquets can also be used for your reception table centerpieces, or for the alter centerpiece. You can make paper flowers for your wedding design in anyway you desire. Just get your flower designs and colors and a few materials together and have fun with it.

Paper flower bouquets can have two sided colors on the flowers by either finding double sided paper or make your own. Find how to do books, or go on the internet.

Another great idea to personalize your paper flower bouquets is to add beads, lace, greenery, sparkles, ribbons, and a clear gloss to give the flowers a shine, plus it makes them a little more stiff to hold their shape just make sure it dries thoroughly before you handle your paper flowers.

Well I hope this gives you an inspiration and idea on how to personalize your special day with your paper flower bouquets for your wedding day. Enjoy.

Without any surprise a lot of brides and grooms would like to spend less money on the wedding. This is why couples will try their best to control the cost of various items in the wedding. When your unique wedding invitations are considered, you will also want to do so. It can be very easy for you to spend less on your wedding invitations if you can consider the idea of DIY.

DVD wedding invitations will certainly be one of your choices if you really want to save money. You may consider creating the DVD on your own and you can save a lot of money.

You can put a lot of information on a DVD. This is certainly an advantage. In fact, you can put more than just the details of your event onto the DVD. You can put other information such as points of interest around your wedding location. It is also very command for brides and grooms to put contact details on the DVD so that the guests can reply easily. The idea here is that you will be able to put virtual anything onto one single DVD!

There is no doubt that the above method is only one of the many options you can think of. To this end, you may want to go for the idea of a traditional printed wedding card. Many couples will consider the idea of printing the cards themselves so that they can save money.

Create and print your own wedding cards should never be a difficult task. The point here is that you can do it easily. First of all, you have to think about the style of your event. If you are going to host Chinese weddings, you may want to go for some Chinese style designs.

Then, you will try to download free wedding invitation templates from the internet. As discussed, it will be important to download invitation templates which will match the theme of your event! You may want to alter the design of the original template so as to create your unique wedding invitation design. Finally, you will have to print the cards out. This is certainly the most important step. Then you will send them out as soon as possible.

Great Ideas for Creative Wedding Favor Tags

It’s true that favor tags are one of the smallest details in the design of a wedding, yet it’s also true that they’re extremely important as they serve as a thank you card to guests for attending the wedding. Along with ribbons, favor tags also help favors to look complete and decorative. The style, colors, and shape of your favor tags should all tie in with the overall theme and design of your wedding.

Regular rectangular wedding favor tags are wonderful, but don’t feel limited to those alone. For example, a circular shape may be the perfect contrast to a triangular shaped wedding favor such as a clear candy-filled triangle container tied with ribbon. This way, you can keep the lines modern and the details understated if that’s the look of your wedding design, while still adding interest through contrasting shape.

A starfish or sand dollar wedding favor tag is the ideal accent for beach weddings. You can use heart shaped or heart themed wedding favor tags for any type of wedding. Double heart designs are a timeless way of signifying the wedding couple. You can customize a tag with the names of the bride and groom and the wedding date within two hearts blended together.

Small charms and craft items such as little white doves and silver-colored starfish can dress up wedding favor tags when they’re attached to favor containers with ribbon ties or bows. You can add cute messages such as “Rachel and David. Love Birds Forever” or “Love is a Beach. Thanks for sharing our wedding day with us. Chelsea and Matthew.” You could fill a clear, heart-shaped favor box with candy hearts. Add a heart-shaped wedding favor tag that reads something like “Ashley and Derek Sweethearts Forever.”

Flower shaped wedding favor tags can look light-hearted and cute with a photo of the bride and groom in the center. You could place a photo on one side of the flower tag and the names and date on the other. A photograph favor tag also makes a great keepsake for guests. Grosgrain or personalized ribbons used to attach the tags to the favor containers can add the finishing touch.

Wedding Seed Favors – Ideal for Outdoor Weddings

Especially suited to outdoor or “green” wedding themes, wedding seed favors are an alternative to the typical candy or mint favor. There are different types of seeds and presentations you can use to make a wedding seed favor look special enough for your special day.

Glassine or vellum envelopes used to hold seeds or bulbs give an elegant appearance that lets the natural beauty of wedding seed favors show through. Accent the envelopes with gauze ribbon to keep the airy look flowing. Don’t forget to add planting and growing instructions. For a more stylized look, you can place seeds in silver-colored round metal tins with clear sections on the lids. Narrow ribbon accents can add a splash of your wedding accent color next to the cool toned metal.

For a more flowery, garden party atmosphere, decorate the top of a square favor box with ribbon and a silk flower that matches real flowers in the garden or containers. You could add a whimsical touch by placing small craft store ladybugs, ants, bees, butterflies or caterpillars on the floral flower box top – perhaps under or on top of a silk leaf. Inside the box, place the wedding seed favors with planting and growing instructions.

Pre-seeded shapes are super popular for wedding seed favors. You can find cards that include the seed embedded shapes to use as favor tags or tie a stack of the seeded flowers with pretty ribbon. This idea works great as a personalized wedding seed favor by using personalized ribbon and a personalized tag that reads something like “Our Love Grows Stronger Every Day. Rachel and James. June 5, 2012.”

Mini flower pots, garden tools, watering cans and more are available through wedding favor supply websites and craft shops. These containers and accents are perfect accompaniments for wedding seed favors of all types. Mix and match your favorite looks and you’ll find it’s easy to come up with unique seed favors!

How to Dress Up Wedding Favor Bags

Decorate Cute Mini Suitcase Favors for Destination Weddings

Clear miniature plastic suitcases, tote bags and backpacks are cute as favor holders at destination weddings. They can be filled with candy or handy travel items such as lip balm and mini puzzles. You could attach a card shaped like a luggage tag to the little suitcase wedding favor bags with a message such as “We’re Glad You Could Be with Us in Mexico, Erin and Jeff.”

Add Ribbon Bows to Clear Plastic Geometric Favor Packages

Structured types of clear plastic favor packages such as triangles, cones or pillow shapes can make a great alternative to more traditional wedding favor containers. These are nice because the contents you add lets these structured clear wedding favor bags match your wedding colors. Elegant ribbon bows on one end can look stunning.

Either wrapped or unwrapped candy, mints, or Jordan almonds can be placed inside the structured clear containers. The pillow shaped clear plastic containers are ideal to fill with pillow mints in assorted pastels plus white. You could wrap personalized ribbon around the middle of the package and then tie a small bow in the centre.

Use Mini Beach Bag Favors to Set the Tone for Beach Weddings

Beach weddings call for a casual tone, and mini beach bag favor bags in a material such as burlap can look perfect. You can order personalized stickers that look like towels, so these would be ideal to use for the favor tags or tucked inside the bags.

Blue organza or sheer bags could be used as wedding favor bags for beach weddings if they’re filled with informal items such as beach-themed stickers, a roll of Life Savers and a bubble solution with a wand for blowing bubbles. You can get the bubble bottle and Life Savers and even the stickers personalized.

Personalize Plain Favor Bags for Custom Style

Fold top wedding favor bags can be easily dressed up with ribbon streamers or a bow made from personalized ribbons. Just hole-punch the center top portion of the bag and insert the ribbon through. Personalized stickers with the wedding couple’s names and date could also be added to the bags.

If you’ve been knee-deep in wedding planning, chances are you’ve heard of the “candy buffet” or “candy bar” wherein a table-long array of the sweetest and colorful candy is displayed for your guests to dig in.  The Wedding Candy Buffet made its debut to wedding guests all over the nation within the past few years and there are no signs of the wedding candy bar concept slowing down.  Wedding candy buffets are genius, really, and super simple.  The following are a few wedding candy buffet ideas.

First, decide on the type of candy you’d like to display in your wedding candy bar buffet.  You might be surprised to find this task to be quite harder than you think.  There is quite literally hundreds of various types of candy in all of shapes and colors.  Reach back into time and choose some candy with nostalgic value, then add some of your current favorites.  Imagine sweet chocolates, chewy gummy bears, brightly colored gum balls, Jordan almonds, and even childhood lollipops gracing your wedding candy buffet!  But don’t go overboard, limit your choices to only about 10 of your favorite candy.

Next select the containers in which you will exhibit your sweet treats.  Clear glass jars are the vessels of choice.  Create a standout showcase with a mixture of narrow and wide glass jars to tall and short glass containers.  Indicate each jar’s contents with a decorative tent card displayed in front of the container.  Alternatively, handwrite the name of the candy onto a beautiful sticker and affix to the front of the glass jar.  Place a candy scoop in front or inside the candy jar for your guests to easily grab their desired amount.

Lastly, choose a generously-sized yet portable container that your guests can use to load up with their goodies and take home.  Gourmet food paper bags personalized with your names and wedding date is the perfect idea.  Or transform Chinese takeout boxes into a great container for your memorable wedding candy buffet.  Glassine envelopes can be spruced up with personalized labels resulting in creative candy buffet packaging. 

By offering an “all-you-can-eat, make-your-own” experience, you’ll invite your guests to create their own wedding favors that they’ll be sure to enjoy!  The wedding candy buffet is the perfect accent to your wedding that will make a sweet and lasting impression! (AJG001)