moroccan lanterns

this picture is also not too clear but i bought 13 moroccan metal lanterns online.  they were cheap.  $4 for 8 of them then 7 for the more fancy ones.  i added some ribbon to the tops of the smaller ones.  then the larger ones will be hung with ribbon as well from trees ...

ribbon streamers

so here in the floor we have ribbon streamers.  i had put the ribbon on rope so it can be easily attached to the front row of chairs at the ceremony.  i used A LOT of ribbon.  i had bought two spools from michaels and those only gave me two streamers each.  i had gotten some ribbon from my moms friend in hong kong.  i dont think they were too expensive.  but i used ALL of it.  not sure how much coverage this actually gives but hopefully its not too sparse.

fringe streamers

so up until this point i had not fully assembled the fringe streamers.  i was putting it off because it seemed tedious.  it seemed impossible.  it seemed like it might get ruined.  i tried to unfold the streamers one fold then glue that part to a rope using glue.  some of the streamers i could tell would be pretty difficult to unfold just because the folds were so tight.  i remember in the tutorial it said to "Step 4: Muss up the fringe on each side, separate the layers and scrunch it with your fingers"  hopefully that isnt going to be too diffcult for the people setting up.  the glue didnt hold too well so i had to actually reinforce it with some packing tape.  not too attractive but hopefully we can flip that part down so you cant see it?  some were also ripping because the cuts were too deep .... sigh

cranes

so im happy to say im finally done with this project.  actually it was my sister's idea but i ended up executing it.  she did fold a lot of cranes.  but man did i have to fold a lot of cranes.  i dont even know how many there are since i just ended up folding all the papers i had.  i took a needle and embroidery thread and strung them together in colors.  then tied the strands to another rope.

these were originally supposed to adorn the "just married" sign i made but the fiance didnt like that so i removed them.  now im not sure where this will go ...

cake stands

so i volunteered the fiance for this project since he is better with the exacto blade.  i came back from the long weekend and they were done!  im really happy with them.  he is thinking we need to add ribbon or something to the edges but i would be happy even if we didnt.  we bought the cake sheets from michaels (which arent cheap by the way) and he sprayed glue and wrapped them with silver wrapping paper.  for the tiers he measured cupcakes, yes he actually went to buy some cupcakes from safeway, and made about 4 feet for each tier.  the feet were basically wrapped cardboard.

RSVP cards

under the persuasion of the fiances mom, we decided to print some RSVP cards last minute.  im a bit glad we did because some of them have come back with messages and funny notes.  i had weighed printing them via letterpress or regular press but couldnt justify the cost so we just went with the cheapest of the cheap.  PSPrint which gave us 100postcards for about $25.  i might go with them for the thank you cards too.  again i had wanted to go with either minted (since that is where the original design came from), zazzle, letterpress via mercurio brothers, or psprint.  but psprint is just so much cheaper, its hard to justify anything else.

leafy lights

So most of our printed materials have a leaf design on them.  I kind of wanted to incorporate them into our decorations somehow.  i had extra string lights so i cut leaves out of tissue paper and use floral tape to wrap them over the bulbs.  im actually not sure where we will put these.  but im sure they will be of use somewhere?  this was actually more tedious than i had anticipated.  i started wrapping down the string light and did about every other light and after an hour i had only done a couple feet.  some bulbs have one leaf and some have two.  of the ones that have two, some have one color of leaves and some have two.