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Fab Finds Friday: Garter Girl

DIYBride — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:53:17 +0000

Fab Finds Friday is a weekly showcase of some of the fabulous resources available to the wedding community. This week’s wedding goodness comes to you from Garter Girl. Products and resources mentioned in FFF are chosen based on their merit and are never paid endorsements. xoxo.

Juilanne from Garter Girl posted this great tutorial for creating a knit garter for under a dollar. Yes, under a buck!

Knit garter from Julianne, The Garter Girl

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Preston Bailey for the DIY Bride

DIY Bride — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:50:46 +0000

One of the great misconceptions about DIY weddings is that they’re somehow unglamorous, even tacky, affairs. Pshaw, I say! As you’ve seen here, at DIY Bride, (and at the growing number of DIY blogs popping up) do-it-yourself weddings can be gorgeous, elegant and utterly fabulous with a little effort and the right resources. Finding those resources – and sharing them with you – is something I love to do.

Imagine my delight when the team at Preston Bailey contacted me to introduce Preston’s first product for us, the DIY crowd. Inspired by his love of empowering couples to do-it-yourself, Preston is offering a complete how-to guide and resource manual to create the Wedding Bell, this stuning table setting from his book “Celebrations”. Can you believe this look is achieved by using paper? Genius!

On April 06, 2009, Preston will offer a limited number 1,000 of copies of Wedding Bell for sale to the public. To celebrate the product’s launch, DIYBride readers are being offered a generous 15% discount! Please use discount code DIYBRIDE.

To reserve your copy:

Email diy@prestonbailey.com
Include your name, address, email address and telephone number
Use discount code DIYBRIDE

More shots of the Wedding Bell:

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Real DIYers: Elka

DIY Bride — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:00:23 +0000

I absolutely love it when readers share the details of their DIY weddings! Elka from CasaSugar was kind enough to share two slideshows with us from her bridal shower and wedding. Both are casual, unique events that are beautiful and environmentally-friendly to boot.

Garden Bridal Shower

Elka’s Wedding

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DIY Bride in Modern Bride

DIY Bride — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:53:08 +0000

I’m very proud to be featured once again in Modern Bride magazine. Please check out the August/September 08 issue on page 178 for the complete instructions to make your own fresh flower ring pillow. This was one of my favorite projects in the whole DIY Bride book.

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Easy Treat Baskets

DIY Bride — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:43:00 +0000

While I personally love creating small treat boxes I don’t post many here because I know that, for most couples, cutting out and assembling 100+ boxes can be a real drag. In most cases it’s just easier to buy pre-assembled boxes.

When I can share treat packaging that requires little cutting and easy assembly, I’m all over it. To the blog I go! And, well, here I am with this easy treat basket. Ok, it’s not a box but it’s a great way to present Jelly Bellys, chocolates or other small munchies. It takes about 3 minutes to cut and assemble and you can get 4 baskets per 1 sheet of 12″ x 12″ scrapbook paper.

Supplies Need

Cardstock or heavy scrapbook paper, cut to 6″ x 6″
Scoring tool (bone folder or paper cutter with a scoring blade)
Hole punch
Ribbon

Directions

Score each piece of 6″x6″ piece of paper at 2″ and at 4″ in both directions (horizontally and vertically). You’ll end up with score marks in a tic-tac-toe pattern.
Now score each of the 4 corner pieces, diagonally, from tip towards the middle.
Punch holes in each of the corners, about 1/8″ or so from the tips.
Fold all of the scores towards the middle. The corner pieces should come in towards the center.
Thread some ribbon through the holes. Place your goodies inside. Tie the ribbon closed.

(step 1):

(step 2):

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