Wedding Favors

Instead of sugary treats, my husband and I decided to give something more romantic to our guests: a handmade wedding favor that would say something about us as a couple.

Also, we wanted to tie the favors to the general color palette for the wedding: red, white and aqua blue, and to the handmade quality of all of our decorations. So, I spent a good portion of the year cutting and folding favor boxes, favors tags (each tag was cut and decorated by hand - yes, even those tiny flowers on the tags were cut and glued one by one), making paper flowers and paper butterflies to decorate the boxes, and so on...



It seems like a lot of work (and it was), but it was absolutely fun to do it, a great joy :)



Inside each box was a scented rose candle for our guests to light on a special evening. The floating rose candles also came in red, white and light-blue.

Dancing Shoes

My wedding day seemed pretty long and I was on my feet most of the time. Even though these beauties don't look that comfortable, I loved wearing them for my first dance as a married woman.

I also wore 3-4 different pairs of shoes that day, so my feet didn't really suffer from all that standing, walking, dancing... Under my long bridal gown, who could tell if my shoes were pink, red, white or any other color? All I can say is - they were all pretty dear to me: my pink shoes and gold sandals reminded me of the pre-wedding party at my parents' house, my white platforms of all the times my husband and I have enjoyed walking around Boston this summer, ...

Most of all, I love these white shoes , for they took me on a fabulous journey...

Vellum Flowers

These almost transparent flowers are made of vellum paper. The layers of petals in different sizes are held together by a jeweled metal brad.

The flowers may look dainty, but they traveled across the Atlantic to Europe and were hung all over my parents' house as decorations for the wedding.

Handmade Boutonniere

I made the boutonnières for the wedding party myself. I used white silk flowers and little mulberry paper flowers, silk threads, velvet and sheer blue ribbon. These were the less fancy ones.

I'll post the fancy version soon.

Wall Art: Paper Flowers

These are just some of the paper flowers I made for the wedding (I also had lots of flowers in light blue). I got the inspiration from the Chanel Couture 2009 show.

We used them to decorate the stairways in my house, the wedding table at the reception, the trees in my garden, and so on ... They give a soft and whimsical feel when hung on the wall, so they're pretty amazing as wall-art (right now we have them in our apartment).




They are pretty easy to make. All you need is a nice paper, glue-gun, scissors, a pencil (to shape the petals), and pearls.

Please email me if you'd like to know the steps to make these flowers.