Hammered spoons are a beautiful addition to your wedding tabletop.  Perfect for an elegant, rustic wedding, use them as favors, escort cards, or table numbers – the options are endless.  I’m so happy to have McKenzie Brickl of La La Soiree and Kate Sommers of KNG Sommers Photography stop by EAD today to share a step-by-step tutorial for creating your …

As promised, to go along with this morning’s Parisian Masquerade Ball Inspired Creations Contest shoot, Courtney Callahan of Courtney Callahan Paper, Natalie Walsh of Hello Darling, and Jenn Gaudreau of Jennifer Kathryn Photography are back to share how-tos for their fabulous DIY projects with us!  Click on the links below to jump to your favorite project.

Foliage Wreaths · Masquerade Mask · L’Amour …

Prior to the week of the wedding, I worked on 30 hotel gift boxes for our family and friends who booked within the accommodation block we had recommended at our wedding website. The top of the box had a card stock label with our names and the date of our wedding wrapped by a ribbon around …

Looking for an easy, pretty addition to your thanksgiving table?  Rachel from Heart of Light created these super-simple printable napkin rings that would be perfect.  I love the accent of a sprig of fresh herb, or tuck a flower inside for a more romantic tabletop.

{image via Heart of Light}

Download the template at Heart of Light and enjoy!

I pretty much love anything that Paul Lowe puts together, but for some reason this simple twine place setting is really rocking my world right now.

{image by Frances Janisch; styling by Sweet Paul}

Wouldn’t this place setting be perfect for a rustic (adult-only – no knives sticking up with kiddies around!) wedding?

I’m not entirely sure when I decided I “needed” to Gocco some personalized cocktail napkins, but it was quite some time ago…months ago, in fact. And just when I had decided the cocktail napkins could be pushed to the back burner, Heather (who is my wedding day twin!) posted photos of her awesome cocktail napkins and I immediately knew personalized …

Scattered about our tables we had stacks of song request cards.  I loved the little premise that I ended up with of having song names that are actions for the headings on our cards.  Here are the headings we used:

Come on, let me Shake My Tail Feather to…

Shake it up baby, let’s Twist and Shout to…

We’ll be dancing, Shagging on …

Two small details from the vow renewal that you haven’t yet seen are the reserved signs for the ceremony chairs and the embroidered hemstitch cocktail napkins.

The reserved signs were a super-easy project.  Here they are (backwards) on the chairs).

Supplies needed (makes 8):

* Ribbon
* Two pieces of 8.5 x 11 cardstock
* One piece of 8.5 x 11 Accent paper
* Self-adhesive velcro …

Kathy from Merriment Design thrills me again with these gorgeous and super-creative napkin rings made from Saran Wrap tubes, fabric, and ribbon.  LOVE!

{Tutorial found at Merriment Design}

WEEKEND!

Phew. Sorry. I get a little excited when it comes to weekends lately. After all, I’m still in class, studying for finals, getting ready to start my internship, planning a wedding, moving, trying to keep my fiance sane as he studies for the board exams…phew! So weekends are always a welcome time for me to catch up on …

{All images from Author’s personal collection*}

As I mentioned last week, it has been rather busy in our household this week and wedding planning has very much taken a backseat. I did however find time to make a start on the bunting which we are using to decorate our marquee at the reception and thought you might like to see how …

As soon as I saw this project on Style Me Pretty last year, I knew I had to make coat check tags. Not only are they easy to do, but they are so unexpectedly cute and I love it when guests know you thought of everything.

{Author’s personal collection}

You will need:

hole punch
eyelets & eyelet setter
rotary trimmer
cardstock
elastic

Instructions:

I started by laying out my …