Because 2 days is never enough.

One of the reasons we decided to have a short engagment (four months) was because I was pretty sure that if I left myself a year or more to plan a wedding, I would go into crafting overdrive and knit everyone outfits to wear or something ridiculous like that.

At the same time, we knew we wanted a wedding that was simple, handmade, and local. Except for my shoes and Karl’s suit, everything in our wedding was either made by us, our friends, or at least people we met. It was a pretty cool way to bring the whole thing together.  All the little touches made our wedding really special and intimate to us.

Here are some highlights of the projects we made ourselves (and by ourselves I mean by me, really, sorry Karl):

Clutches

I saw this awesome tutorial for fabric flowers and decided to make clutches for me and for my maid of honor, Jody.

Ring Pillow:

My father gave me an amazing treasure: lace from my great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother’s wedding dresses. I was overwhelmed by how lucky we are to have these kinds of heirlooms in our family and really wanted to find a way to incorporate them into our wedding. My great-great-grandmother’s wedding dress was black and the lace we had was very tassley. I could not figure out how to use it; however, my great grandmother’s lace was beautiful and I was inspired to make it into a ring pillow.  It was so cool to see out handmade rings tied on to the pillow during the ceremony.

Seating Cards

I was really hoping to bring cool textiles into the wedding, but was pretty sure I didn’t have time to sew anything elaborate.  It occurred to me that I could use fabric to make little goodie bags telling people where to sit. I have a number of friends who are very loyal consumers of their favorite types of candy and so I tried my best to match people up with their favorite candies.  A trip to Economy Candy was really helpful for this, making it easy to find even the most obscure types of candy (if you’ve never been here, this place is a treasure! go!).   I have big plans for the fabric, which I collected after the party. Stay tuned, maybe I’ll report on it some day, in a million years, when I have time to get to it.

I’ll update with our programs and favors soon.