Top 5 Wedding Things: #5- Decor

Being that my 1st Anniversary is 5 days away, I thought it would be fun to do a "Top 5 Wedding Things" count down. One of the main reasons why I started this blog is because of my wedding, so I thought I would be nice to reflect on journey that got me down that aisle. 

#5 - Decor

One of my favorite things about my wedding was getting to do some DIY projects to make my wedding more unique and to fit my personal style. 

Different projects included my centerpieces, my card box and my cake topper. I think my cake topper was my favorite out of all projects I did, but the projects started with a simple card box.

In my second blog post ever this project started the snow ball effect that would become all the my do-it-yourself projects that I decided to undertake.

The centerpieces took the longest time to figure out, because I want a few different types of centerpieces to give the room a little more interest. There was my short centerpiece-

There was my tall centerpieces-

 There was the feather one-

And the weird one- (there is no other way the describe it)

 

In the end I really like how all of them turned out, but now- after almost a whole year, all the centerpiece stuff is still sitting in the dining room of my mom's house. I have told all my friends who are getting married- if you want to use any of this stuff, let me know because I have no clue what to do with it.

My decor wasn't completely all DIY projects, I got some help from Sam's aunt. 

I love that I've been able to reuse these wedding decor items in my new house. Sam's aunt carved some fake pumpkins (from left to right) with our names, our wedding date, and a set of wedding bells. Also, I was able to make guest book more functional by having it become a piece of art by having a "thumb print" tree.

Originally I was planning on just ordering a the tree from online, but having Sam's aunt paint the tree base makes it even more special. 

Finally, I couldn't talk about my decor without bring up the one item I knew I had to have the moment that I saw them at my cousin's wedding in 2003-

My glass unity candles. I love glass things and I love candles- so I had to have them. Plus I love that I could buy colored oil. 

The only thing we should have done was test the candles before the day of the wedding. Little did we know that the candles were a little more like flamethrowers. Check out how big the flame got just on that first tapper candle compare the the alters candles.

  

Everyone was a little worried that we we're going to burn down the church, but we were lucky and everything was fine. It's things like this make a wedding unique & memorable- well, it would have been more memorable if something did set on fire, but it was better this way.