Wedding season is around the corner, so let’s make the most of every minute and get started with the wedding preparations. These days, wedding preparations are mostly taken care of by wedding planners and event planners; however, you can still be a part of your wedding décor by creating DIY wedding decorations and crafts to add a personal touch to your or your dear one’s wedding. In this blog, Gharpedia shares some awesome DIY craft ideas for wedding decorations that are easy, budget friendly, and creative.
1. DIY Flower Bouquet for Wedding
A flower bouquet is an auspicious and aesthetic element used in weddings for welcoming guests, decorative purposes, and gifting. You can make them with ease and in no time. All you have to do is order flowers of your choice, arrange them as you please and tie them with a thread or ribbon. Your welcoming bouquets are ready. To step it up, you can arrange the flowers in ascending order and add chocolates or candies too in between. Open or wrapped in transparent or coloured plastic; this is your choice.
2. DIY Wedding Invites
Weddings invitations are now more than just sending cards. People are finding innovative ways of extending an invite and an invitation box filled with all sorts of goodies is the most popular choice. Making these wedding invitation boxes is no big deal!
Firstly, let’s decide on what goodies you want to include – chocolates, cookies, good luck charms, dried fruits, silver coins, etc. – and what kind of material you’d like for the box. Then, let’s choose the size of the box based on the number of items you want to add.
Once you have everything gathered, let’s start arranging the goodies in the boxes. Make sure the invitation card stays on top. Then, let’s pack the boxes with ribbon or fancy tape to add that extra special touch. Get creative and enjoy the process of making your unique wedding invitation boxes!
3. Wedding Craft Ideas for Event Signs
Wedding signs are essential for displaying event names and providing directions. These signs, crafted from cardboard or thin plywood sheets are easy to make. If you have good carpentry skills, you can cut out the letters of the event name yourself. If not, you can visit a carpenter and instruct them accordingly. Once you have the letters, decorate them with flowers, satin, paint colours, or a combination of these elements. Remember that your DIY event sign should be bold enough to be spotted from a distance and ‘Instagrammable’ for photographers.
4. DIY Flower Garlands
Flower garlands are auspicious and are used to welcome and honour the bride and groom. Making them is simple; all you need are flowers of your choice, a thread, and a needle. Begin by inserting the thread into the flowers with the help of the needle. While adding flowers, ensure you insert them according to the design you want to create. Once done, tie a knot between the ends, and your DIY flower garland is ready. The best part about DIY flower garlands is that you can personalise them.
5. Wedding Notice Board DIY
A DIY notice board can be a casual, handwritten message board for guests. It’s a great way to share event details. For this DIY project, you will need any wooden piece, polished or unpolished. You can also use cardboard or thermocol instead of wood, although wood would be the best choice. You don’t even have to spend any money on wood; take any scrap wood and clean it up to use as a notice board. Write the details of the event, venue, bride and groom, food names, or anything worth noticing.
6. DIY Bridesmaid Tiara
Create a DIY fresh flower tiara by collecting or ordering flowers, cutting thin craft wire, inserting flowers into the wire, and tying a knot. This easy and beautiful adornment will make your bridesmaid look stunning.
7. Polaroid Booth
Embark on a 19th century photocopying adventure with a Polaroid camera loaded with films, allowing guests to capture their fun moments at your wedding. They can surely keep these pictures as a keepsake.
8. Shaadi Decoration with DIY Paper Flowers
DIY paper flowers are vibrant. There are many ways to make paper flowers of different shapes, sizes, and styles. Here is one of the easiest ways, which requires no skill. First, buy thin craft paper rolls of different colours. Take one paper and fold half a centimetre only from the top. Then, fold that same half a centimetre behind. Keep repeating this until you have folded the whole paper. Then, take a rubber band and tie it at the centre of the folded paper. Now, unfold the paper, and your flower is ready. You can use these flowers for many purposes like backdrops, vases, decor, etc.
9. DIY Wedding Décor Craft with Ceramic Clay
This is for those interested in clay artwork. You can make decor items like trays, lampshades, vases, bells, flowers, etc., and then paint them. Once they are dry and ready, use them to improve the aesthetics by placing them on dinner tables, bar counters, in the surroundings, for decorating the selfie corner, etc.
10. DIY Dessert Stand
There are many ways of making it, but making your own DIY dessert stands using wood logs cut horizontally of two-inch thickness will surely grab some eyeballs. Do nothing, as wood already has a nice texture and colour. Take these pieces and place them on the dessert table. Now, bring your dessert and arrange them separately on these bases. Ta-da! Your DIY dessert stand is ready.
11. DIY Backdrop for Haldi Ritual
If your Haldi stage seems open and empty, then add a DIY Haldi Backdrop to complete your Haldi setup. Rent triangular frames from the wedding planner and then just add flower lines covering the entire frame. At the top, add a flower bouquet. Repeat the same with all the frames and then place all the frames behind the Haldi setup.
12. Jazz up the Surrounding Trees with DIY Wedding Craft Décor Ideas
There might be many trees at your wedding venue. Let us make those trees a part of your wedding aesthetics. All you have to do is take a bunch of craft papers and cut them in heart or any shape of your choice. Take cotton strings and stick these pieces on them. Now, hang these strings from the trees and watch add vibrance to the venue. Take this thing to the next level by using radium paper.
13. DIY Tray Décor
Trays are used for many purposes at the wedding. Why should the trays be simple and bland when you can decorate and make them stand out? Take some fabric piece and stick it on the tray using glue. Make sure you cover the top of the tray evenly. Let it dry, and in the meantime, collect all the accessories for decoration. Now start sticking them and let them dry. Your tray is ready for the wedding ceremonies. If you do not have fabric, then you can simply paint the tray and then stick accessories.
14. DIY Bottle Décor
We all have used bottles and cans. Now, clean and dry them thoroughly. If they look presentable, use them as vases or drop in some string lights and use them as wedding décor. If they look clumsy, then either paint them from outside or cover them with strings. Adorn them with bows or stickers.
15. DIY Selfie Point with Wedding Touch-up
Today, every wedding has a selfie point. Create that space yourself. Pick a folding wooden partition and jazz it up with some elegant décor elements like fabric and flowers. Your guests will gush!
16. Pre-Wedding Photo Display
Get high quality prints of your pre-wedding shoot and stick them on the walls for display. If budget allows, you can have LED screens for your pre-wedding photo display. You can also play pre-wedding video on the projector to entertain your guests.
17. DIY Cake Topper
Nowadays, every wedding ceremony ends with cake cutting. DIY cake toppers give you an opportunity to add a fun element to the traditional cake toppers. They can be easily crafted from craft papers. Carve the writing you want on the craft paper or the photo cutouts of bride and groom, and then stick them on a stick. Your DIY wedding cake topper is ready.
18. DIY Wedding Craft – Relationship Badges
Their sole purpose is to display your relation with the bride or groom. Take craft papers and cut them in squares or rectangles. Then write the name of relation you share with the bride or groom. Now decorate that badge with ribbons and wear it the left side. This will reduce the trouble of introducing yourself.
19. Personalised Return Gift Tags
Create DIY wedding return gift tags as token of appreciation to guests. Use waste cardboard boxes, and cut them into rectangles, typically 2” X 5”. Punch a hole at the top center of each piece. If desired, paint the tags. Then, take a cotton string or ribbon and thread it through the hole, tying it securely. Your DIY wedding return gift tags are ready. Write your message on them, and attach them around the return gifts. If cardboard material is unavailable, craft papers are an equally suitable alternative.
20. DIY Wedding Car Décor
DIY wedding car décor should be simple yet elegant. Keeping simplicity as the key, play with elements like ribbons, flowers, garlands, tin cans, balloons, bows, customised number plates and random flower bouquets for a classy yet understated look.
On an endnote, DIY wedding décor and crafts add a personal touch to your special day. These DIYs are made mainly from the materials already available at home. They bring out your creative side and gives you a sense of contribution for your wedding décor. Moreover, there is no rule here, so you get the opportunity to explore all possible options that suits you.
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