DIY wedding invitations: February 2010

How to make a fan as wedding favor

In many occasions, weddings take place in gardens or warm places where a fan can be pretty convenient to cool the guests.

I’m sharing with you an idea I saw in Anna Griffin’s website, where they show this fan that you can make pretty easily —and with a very low cost, too.

What you need is a rigid cardboard of any color, which will be the fan’s body. You will also need some paper with the names of the bride and groom and the wedding’s date printed on it. Then glue this paper on the cardboard. Finally, you will need a tongue depressor or a wooden stick, which you can get easily on any stationery or notions shop. For the finishing touch, use a little bow made with a ribbon.

You should try to make your own fans —you will find out that they look really cute.

Source: Anna Griffin

Photo: La Reyna de Mesones

Cards to designate seats for the wedding’s guests

At the wedding’s reception, it is very practical to have the seats already designated with personalized cards featuring the guests’ names. This time we are showing a fabulous idea for cards in different shapes which, after a little cut on them, you can put at the edge of the glass. You only have to draw your desired shape, mirror it on the paper, cut it, fold it, do a little cut in the middle to put it in the glass’ base, and finally decorate and personalize them.

Source: A touch of bliss

Wedding invitations in a box

If you want a stylish and sophisticated wedding, the ideal is that your wedding invitations come in a box so that your invitation will be something very original and unique.
Source:The innovation companies

Gaby Beltrán and her wedding-favors courses

Gaby Beltrán is a famous woman who owns a business where she teaches all the handicraft techniques to make wedding favors.

At her website, you will find the hours of the courses she gives in Mexico City —and at her website you will also find some courses sold in CD format.

Best of all, she has all the raw materials to make any kind of handicrafts you can possibly imagine.

Her website has a bit of an old-fashioned style. But what interests you is the information.