DIY Wedding Details

Here at Shropshire Petals we are big on DIY and love to get stuck in creating something unique. Many brides have the perfect idea of what they want their wedding details to look like. However, even with the variety of wedding details available now, some brides have difficulty in finding exactly what they want.

From invitations and favours to the cake and reception details, more and more brides are choosing to hand make their own wedding details to ensure they fit their wedding theme perfectly. 

We would like to share some of our own DIY wedding detail ideas to give you some inspiration:

Table centrepieces

Making your own reception table centrepieces is the perfect way to create your own unique decorations.  For a romantic centrepiece place a large candle in a fishbowl, tie a colour co-ordinated ribbon around the middle and surround with petals.  Have subtle lighting at your reception and light the candles to add a little more romance to the atmosphere.

As country weddings are a big wedding trend at the moment, why not create your own wheat sheaf table centrepiece.  Insert seasonal flowers or items matching your wedding theme and tie a piece of raffia or ribbon around the base of the wheat heads.

Cakes

The cutting of the wedding cake is the first thing a married couple does together.  Make your cake a focal feature by hand making it.  Decorate your favourite flavour cake with white or coloured icing and place fresh or dried flowers on top and surround with natural petal confetti creating exactly what you want.

If cake decorating isnt your thing, either buy or have a friend make some cupcakes and place rose petals on top of wet icing and arrange on a cake stand for your guests.

(Please note our petals are not edible.)

Reception details

Weddings are all about uniting a madly in love together.  Place hand decorated wooden hearts around your wedding venue to help spread the love.  Take a wicker wooden heart and glue dried rose heads on to it.  Not only will these look stunning, they can also be given to guests as favours to decorate their home and to remember your wedding for years to come.

Many couples have ‘Mr & Mrs’ words on the top table – make this a feature by surrounding the letters with natural petal confetti to make the letters stand out.

Order of service

Make sure all of your guests have their own confetti to throw once you are married by attaching a small organza bag to each order of service and ensure you get a wow factor confetti shot.

Chair covers

Cover your reception or venue chairs with a white or coloured chair cover and tie a wheat and lavender bunch to the back of the chairs with a pretty ribbon.  These can then be taken by guests as a keep-sake from your wedding day.

Wedding favours

Make your own wedding favours – we recently featured a how-to make natural petal bath bombs on our blog which make great favours for ladies.  Use different coloured confetti and add some food colouring to match your wedding theme.

Are you hand making any of your wedding details?  Our Jess is making lots of her own wedding details... more on this in the weeks to come.

Love as always SP x x