Today kicks off Cake Month at DIY Bride! From recipes and techniques to toppers and stands, we have a full month of DIY projects to make your cake a delightfully delicious part of your celebration.
We’ll be posting a glossary of cake terms, answering reader questions, offering downloadable tip sheets, showcasing cakes by other DIYers, and [...]

Coinciding with DIY Cake Month here at DIYBride, the Food Network is celebrating Wedding Week. From pre-wedding brunch to easy appetizers to, yes, The Cake, tune for inspiration and recipes for yummy wedding from your favorite Food Network chefs. I’m really excited to see Thursday’s back-to-back Ace of Cakes wedding-related shows. (Is it possible to [...]

A Call For Questions!
The month of May will be devoted to all sorts of cakey goodness at DIY Bride. I have a fantastic bunch of step-by-step tutorials, delicious recipes, inspired designs, and all sorts of expert information coming online for you. It’s going to be a lot of fun!
As part of the celebration I’m bringing [...]

Epicurious, the uber cool foodie site, isn’t the first place I’d look for centerpiece ideas but, wow!, they have a nice section on DIY centerpieces this month.
Do check out their slideshow tutorials on how to create these fresh, bright and utterly beautiful centerpieces. (I love the one in the center!)

We have an interesting dilemma in the forums and I’m hoping you creative divas might have some suggestions. User virtualvoice writes in with this predicament:
Our wedding ceremony is going to be outdoors in an amphitheater- the seats are all stone and somewhat dirty. We need to have blankets or fabric or something so that the [...]

The hardest part about creating invitations (for me, at least) is selecting the fonts. Finding the perfect font to convey the unique style of the invite drives me batty sometimes. With something like 2 or 3 kajillion free fonts available on the internets (I have about half a kajillion of them myself) narrowing down [...]

Ok, that title is really bad. Forgive me - I’m nursing a post-bday celebration weekend brain. (Why does it take so long to recover from fab parties? I didn’t even get tipsy and I’m weirdly out of it days later.) Enough about me.

Today’s project uses rub-on transfers and a clear glass vase to create a [...]

This is filed under “Why didn’t I think of that?”.  Here’s a quick way to add instant impact to your centerpiece vases: cover them with placemats.
Home by Sunset has the step-by-steps on how to do this super-easy, super-inexpensive project to take your centerpieces from nice to WOW. (Found via Heavy Petal - a really cool [...]

I know, I know… it’s Thursday. Pretend it’s yesterday and enjoy these fantastic Gocco tips submitted by DIY Bride Miranda. If you’re unfamiliar with the Gocco, it’s a small screenpriting machine from Japan.

I’ve been reading wedding blogs compulsively for months now as I’ve been planning my April wedding. I’ve learned so much and found [...]

Last week I introduced you to the basics of heat embossing. Thank you to everyone who added questions and tips in the comments. That was very cool!
Today I’m going expand your embossing repertoire with 3 different ways to use the embossing skills you learned last week. Using 4 different products, we’ll create some really beautiful [...]