(If you missed Part 1, here’s a link. If you want to see where they wedding will be held or check out the color inspiration for everything, check out this post.)

While I’m a fan of the importance of the larger details of a wedding – the clothes, the wedding vendor, the food – it’s the smaller details that I feel make or break a wedding. I can think of one wedding I’ve been to where all the details were attended to that made the day feel like we were a part of something unique, something special. That’s the feel I’m going for here with the planning of this wedding. It’s important to us that it feel like an extension of who we are as people. Nothing cookie-cutter allowed.

To that end, it was important to me especially that we have our hand (and say) all over every detail and even make or put together a lot of what will be seen. Additionally – if that isn’t enough of a charge – we wanted a portion of the event to be about sustainability. I felt confident that we could use and re-use a lot of what’s put together – or even sell to some other bride/bridegroom to re-use – so that we weren’t impacting the Earth. That’s why we chose the Stone House for our event. They’re big on that sustainability factor. Hopefully we’ve been able to apply what we felt strongly about in the course of planning this event.

Here’s the nitty-gritty details in no particular order:

Cocktail Table Flowers:

Instead of using regular flowers which just wilt and die, I decided early on that I’d like to use succulents. I’ve seen them used in wedding before and they’re just gorgeous. The colors, the shapes, the uniqueness. I love it all. So I set out to plant them in glass containers I purchased at Michael’s and AC Moore. With coupons, I wound up saving a bunch of money. I bought some rocks in a large bag at Home Depot for $4.00 and used them as “soil.” The gray of the rocks goes with the color palette we set out to use. Aren’t they cool?

Fans:

I found the idea of doing wedding fans online and I liked it and thought I could make my own because they’d be way cheaper and more personalized. One of the Best Gals bought 6″ tongue depressors from a medical supply store for me. I glued two of them together to increase their length. I bought Epson Matte paper (1-sided) and designed them using the image from the invites altered to include another bird. Below the birds are the names of everyone participating in the wedding and a special “thank you” to everyone for coming. What you don’t see – stoopid me because I should have taken the pic with one front and one back view – is that on the back is the menu for the day. While people are waiting for the event to start, they can peruse the food selections!

After printing out the fronts and back separately, I carefully glued the tongue depressors to the backs of each and then glued the front on top. Lastly, I cut ribbon to a certain size and tied it around the bottom of each. Some I made gray, some green:

Cones:

Another idea I found online, these wedding flower cones will hold some of the Billy Button (crespedia) flowers I purchased on Whole Blossoms. They’ll hang from the aisle chairs in the first three rows to designate “Family Only.”

All the paper was purchased at AC Moore. The yellow paper has a gold, textured design on it which I liked. What you can’t see well enough is that the gray paper is wedding paper – it has hearts, linked wedding bands, and the words, “I will marry my friend,” “2 become 1,” and “The one I Love, Live for, Laugh with Forever and Ever” all over it. I bought a $2.00 pair of fancy edging scissors from Walmart and trimmed two sides of the yellow paper, which was cut at 81/2″. The gray paper was cut for 8″. I glued two sides of the paper down on the inside and rolled the cone and adhered the open edge with hot glue. Cut some holes in the front and back with a hole punched, weave in a long ribbon, and done!

I love these little Billy Button flowers!

More to come. There’s just too much to fit into one post!

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