I just finished making our save-the-dates and wanted to share the process! Some of the pics above are from the testing process (peep the various manicures) so you might notice a flaw or two. All fixed before final print and assembly :)

Tools and materials:
• Procreate - hand drew the playing card side of the art on my iPad
• Canva - layout finishing and print preparation
• Canon Pixma iX6820 - I use this for cricut stuff & it’s a genuinely great printer
• Cricut Maker - I received this as a gift so girl math means it’s totally free
• Custom-sized cardstock from Cards & Pockets
• Printable magnetic sheets
• Self Sealing envelopes

I started by drawing our venue, Auchen Castle, in Procreate. I am not exactly a trained artist so it’s a likeness, not a perfect match. Once I was satisfied with it I mirrored it to create a playing-card layout, added our initials to the corners, and adapted the hands from an embroidery pattern I originally made around 2020.

The back contains our date, website, and the line “a wedding is in the cards.” Our dog is my lovely censorship assistant here. Most of the assets on that side are from Creative Market.

Once the design was finished, I ordered cardstock from Cards & Pockets in a size my Canon could print directly. That saved me from having to cut every card down from a larger sheet. I printed the fronts and backs at home, although it took several rounds of adjusting the colors, margins, printer settings, and exact placement before both sides lined up correctly.

I reused the same castle illustration for the matching round magnets, placed em in a circle to feel like a stamp, and added the text in cricut design space. Those were printed on thin printable magnetic sheets and cut with the Cricut using Print Then Cut. The sheets are more like flexible refrigerator magnets than thick magnets, which kept the finished envelopes relatively flat. It’s also important that the magnets are very weak & stored with the magnetized side facing inwards, towards two layers of paper, so that we’re less likely to encounter issues in mailing.

I also designed and printed the envelopes at home then handed the finished components to my fiancé for assembly.

My main takeaways:
• Test every single part on inexpensive paper before using the final cardstock or envelopes. I thought just a proof of each design would be enough, but you will find small bugs the first few prints.
• Confirm that your printer supports the exact paper dimensions before ordering & be sure you’ve got extra ink cartridges on hand
• Expect double-sided alignment to require several test rounds.
• Keep postal service requirements in mind as you work on the envelopes. I could’ve done calligraphy or a more involved design, but this kept everything high contrast and very easily parsed for USPS sorting machines.
• Reusing the same illustration across multiple pieces made the entire set feel coordinated without requiring another design from scratch.
• Save every successful printer setting once you find the combination that works.

They’ll be going into the mail soon! We’re doing destination so our intention is for guests to have the save the dates ~1 year before the wedding day, and mail the full invitation suite 6 months prior. The invites I’ve designed are fairly involved so that’s my next project. I’m happy to answer questions about any of it!

We got married 8 weeks ago and our DIY wedding cost just under half of the average wedding cost in my country. I made all the signs using LibreOffice and a free trial of Canva. Our seating chart was a framed embroidery I already had, the table arrangements were jars with lace and i did all my own florals, buying from wholesalers. It took an army of friends and family but it was perfect!

Hi!!

I DIYed a couple things for my wedding and I was so happy with how they came out :)

1. Flowers!!! I am super lucky because my maid of honor is a Trader Joe’s employee and my other best friend is a florist.

We bought most of the flowers from Trader Joe’s and a small amount of special stems from a local shop. We assembled 3 big arrangements, 32 bud vases, bridal & maid of honor bouquets, and two boutonnières. It wasn’t too difficult and we had a lot of fun! Half of the bud vases were from Goodwill and the other half were borrowed from my mom.

I was flexible about the particular flowers we chose. I wanted mostly pink with some white and orange, and I wanted them to look bright and summery.

All materials (flowers and supplies) cost around $500 total, and we bought about 2 extra buckets full of flowers and greenery that we didn't use.

1. Welcome sign. I am not an artist by any means but I was happy with this! I painted a piece of plywood and the letters are adhesive vinyl. Materials cost around $20.

I may have gotten a little carried away with this one…

I wanted something at the wedding that could show videos from all of our trips together, but I didn’t want to just stick an iPad on a table and call it a day.

So… I 3D printed an entire little retro TV, installed a screen inside it, hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi, and set it up to continuously loop a video I made of our travels.

Since our wedding has a vintage family-road-trip kind of theme, I edited the whole video to look like an old home movie being played from a VHS tape. Grain, tracking glitches, slightly washed-out footage and all.

What started as “this could be a cute little detail” somehow became me building a functioning miniature television from scratch, because apparently this is who I am now.

But I LOVE how it turned out. It feels like one of those old home videos your family would drag out, except it’s all of our adventures together leading up to the wedding.

One more project crossed off the list. Probably.

I am a pretty creative gal so I decided to do my own menus and names cards. Menus I am hoping to get through canva, but for place cards what do you all recommend I do. Here is the inspiration picture. I have access to a sublimation printer and a cricut. What paper would you recommend etc.

Hi, my fiancee and I are going to hire a DJ for our outdoor wedding in a backyard, but he requires some form of rain/shade protection for his approximately 12’x6’ setup area. He has said an EZ Up style canopy could work or a large umbrella.

I am trying to figure out how to accomplish this in a way that doesn’t look cheap or cheesy like a plain EZ Up canopy. Does anyone have suggestions on ways that we could do this? Preferably under $100-$200 total and without a

We would likely put the DJ in the area by the tree and the wall on the right side of the photo. I’ve looked at sail shades (too expensive and too much set up), draping an EZ up with fabric (more set up than preferred), tent rentals (too expensive), cantilever umbrella rentals (not available). Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Hey y’all! I’ve been thinking about glassware… I really want my wedding to have a fun, eclectic, vintage/thrifted, personal/sentimental vibe! A lot of women in my family have china cabinets FULL of glassware they never use. Mostly wine glasses, cocktail glasses, etc.

I’m planning on doing just water glasses at the table, and the bar will use just plastic cups probably. I think it would be super cute and personal to use glassware from my family, but I have lots of questions surrounding that to think through if I want to do it 😂

1) Would it be weird to use wine glasses for just water?

2) How would I keep everything organized to each person? I was thinking of using wine glasses charms specific to each household it came from

3) Any thoughts for transportation, set up, clean up and return??

And obviously I’ll have to consider what happens if anything breaks…. Also for reference I think guest list will be around 100 people.

Any thoughts? TIA!

I’m really proud of this arrangement and wanted to share

Me and my MOH worked super hard on this before she left but idk I keep looking at them and they just feel flat. I tried kinda redoing it by adding more of the longer greenery but it just felt worse. I’m to the point of just saying forget it and order more of these premade floral pieces I got for my heart arch.

I wanted to share one of the things that made setting up our engagement party so much easier.
I had all of the table decor and plastic silverware packed ahead of time by table, with everything grouped into gallon-size bags and containers. I also included a photo showing exactly how each table was supposed to look once it was set up.
It sounds simple, but it made a huge difference.

Family members were able to help without constantly asking where things went or how I wanted everything arranged, and the setup came together so much faster.

If you’re DIYing a wedding, shower, engagement party, or any larger event, I definitely recommend organizing everything by table or setup area instead of packing all of the same items together.
It saved us a lot of confusion on the day of the party.

Soo I sent out my invites last night at the post office using their outgoing mail box. Then I do research just to find out that if your mail is too heavy you need multiple stamps or you need to hand cancel them… I did not weigh them but they are double enveloped and they have a sleeve sealed with a wax seal on the inside of the envelopes. I used one forever stamp… do we think they will go through? I
will say.. they’re not SUPER bulky. LMK!!

Just wanted to share the arch florals I DIY’d for my October wedding— I’m really proud of them! The base is Sola wood flowers and I used copious amounts of dried filler that I sourced from Amazon and SHEIN. I’m glad I’m an adventurous and experienced DIY’er because I’ve never done floral arranging and the Sola tutorial they sent me sucked lol. Happy to answer questions about the process if anyone is interested!

I was inspired by a local florist here in Seattle to use our Mariners ferry boat trays, and I grew most of my own flowers. The rest are from a local flower stand and a family friend’s rose garden! I got 2 bunches of greenery from Trader Joe’s, but the majority were all locally grown and harvested by me! My bouquet smelled AMAZING and it looked perfect. My dad and I put together our table centerpieces together the day before and we kept them in a cold bedroom overnight. It smelled so so good the next day!

We used a cake decorating turntable and just kinda went at it, my dad picked a color theme for each one and they came together better than I’d hoped!!!

Inspired after Kurt Cobain who decided to get married in his pyjama, we organized ourselves some DIY backyard pyjama themed wedding party...And we managed to do it around 4K (or around 5K if we count the rings)

I made the multi stories cupcakes stands myself out of cardboard, paper mache and acrylic paint.

I am a graphic designer so I created our invitation all by myself and then sent them digitally through messenger, which cost nothing but a bit of time.

My mom and I baked the cupcakes.

I crocheted my own flower bouquet out of yarn!

I ordered most of the flowers and drapery on different shop on Amazon and set up myself some decor I had in mind.

I did my own hair, I didn’t wear any make up, as I never do anyway outside of halloween sometimes lol.

We didn’t hired a photographer, as incentive for our guests to takes pictures and to aim them for certain type of vibe we set up a contest with little gifts to win for three categories : Funniest, most romantic and most artistic pictures.

Instead of paying for a wedding website and a shared album service I created a free facebook event + a private album and named all my guests as contributors to make sure they had the right permission to add their own pictures in there. Then I printed some QR code that led to said album and placed them on every tables.

We didn’t had a DJ, I just organized a few playlists with different vibes that I controlled with my phone.

We didn’t counted the rings in our budget, because we essentially bought those 10 years ago.

My promise ring with 11 diamonds was around 800$, my fitting band was 200$ and my husband’s was around 300$. They are all made of 10K white gold and we wear them since 2015. ( I checked their current prices on the jewelry website, since they still sell those model apparently and they kind of have doubled in prices since then!)

Initially we were supposed to celebrate on august 29th to make it the day after our beloved cat 7th birthday, but unfortunately, our cat died at 6 years old, on that exact day, one year prior our planned celebration, so as we absolutely didn’t wanted to tie our special day to such a sad and heart breaking event, we moved it one week earlier on august 22th instead and we got some very nice warm and sunny weather. Seems like our little cat blew the clouds away for us!

BUDGET BREAKDOWN ($ CAD):

I hope those info and links will be helpful to some of you that might want to organize an event in the same price range!

We want to keep it simple (since we are doing it ourselves) and inexpensive. We are leaning towards jewel tones for our colors. I'd love any and all ideas! It will be a May wedding. Thank you!

Hello! I'm trying to create a floor plan (where tables go, what sizes where, etc) for our venue. Are there useful tools/programs that will help me make a scale floor plan? Doesn't need to be wedding-specific. I'd like to avoid breaking out the graph paper!

Also, have you used any helpful resources that explain how much space needs to be left between tables etc?

Thanks!

Hi! I’d like to design our wedding album myself and am looking for recommendations for an online printing service that can print it in really high quality and ship it to my home.
I’m mainly looking for excellent print and paper quality. I’d love to hear about your experiences and any services you’d recommend. Thanks!

Going to cross-post on Cricut as well.

These are our (both 24M) save the dates! We have a lot of out of town/state guests, so we want to send them out in early January, that’s why we’re starting now.

They’re mini vinyl records, and I love how they came out. My only issue is getting the sticker label perfectly lined up with the disc.

My thought is to get like a short wooden dowel that’s about that size to slide them down onto.

Does anyone have any tricks for getting things like this lined up?

Thanks!

I need to decorate this room for the wedding, but I honestly have absolutely no idea what to do with it. My parents kept changing the plans, so I already made some decorations that unfortunately don’t work with the room anymore. At this point I feel like I’m going to lose my mind.

Just to clarify: this is the entrance to the house. Where I’m from, we call this a "haustor" — basically a small entryway/vestibule before you actually enter the house.

I’m sorry about the mess in the picture — we’re still doing some work, so this is definitely not how the space will look when it’s finished. There won’t be the bike, the plastic sheeting, or any of the other things you can see now.

The room will be empty so I am free to do as I wish here.

I’d really like to keep the decorations simple and ideally something I can DIY myself. I have basically no time left.

What would you do with this space? I’d really appreciate any suggestions, especially if you have photos/examples of simple DIY wedding decorations! Sorry again for the mess, and thanks for understanding.

Thank you!!

I started growing cut flowers last year and now I'm absolutely obsessed. Florals are mostly dahlias, snaps, japanese anemone, cosmos and aster. I've also sprinkled in a little witch grass and mint.

My goal is to grow and arrange all the flowers for the wedding (bouquet, arch, boutonniere and focal pieces). My venue also has a stage and I'm dreaming of having flowers going all the way across it. Any advice or constructive criticism?

I want to create wedding party favors and maybe bathroom kits for an upcoming wedding. Out of these options, which would you choose? I'm open to other suggestions!

• Activity bags for kids to do at the table like a coloring book/crayons
• Items to have in the bathroom in baskets such as: individual emergency kits with bobby pins, hair ties, etc (would be good for the women)
• hangover kits in the bathrooms
• travel toiletry kits in the bathroom for anyone who wants to take it back to their hotel 

Hi guys! I have found a mechanical bull for 1500$ for 4 hour minimum.

My current schedule is
Ceremony 4-440
Cocktail hour 440-620 (party takes photos)
First dance 6:20
Dinner 6:40
Speeches/ games/ parent dances 7:30-8:30
DANCE 8:45

I’m worried it will take away from the dance floor !!

Has anyone done this or been to a wedding where they had a bull?

Thanks!!

Hey I made my bridesmaid bouquet but I can’t tell if they actually look good or if I’m delusional and just think they look good because I made them. Please tell me the truth

I’m looking for a blush pink dress with a high low hemline. Suggestions for where to look?? Also, looking for a GREAT DEAL. dress in pic is somewhat of what I like. Thanks yall!