Pat Catan's Handmade Wedding Ideas!

Faux Mercury Glass

Faux Mercury Glass

Mercury glass has become quite popular once again. Once dubbed the "poor mans silver" it now holds a unique charm all of its own. I've read several tutorials on how to re-create this look and noticed most include an item we no longer sell. So I took elements of other instructions and tried it out... this is what I got. (Martha Stewart explains what mercury glass is if you aren't familiar)

Vintage Style Bouquet

Here is a 'vintage' style bouquet I made using a pre-made bouquet in which I added filler flowers to.

Handmade Invitation Tutorial

Pocket Fold Invitation Tutorial by Jen L

Save the Dates?

Save the Dates aren't always necessary, but they are a thoughtful way to let your out of town and out of state (or even country) guests know your special day is coming up and give them ample time to plan for it.

Composite Flower Cubes

 

Composite flowers are easy to make and on the bottom of cube vases they become a great, low centerpiece that you guests can see one another over.

Branch Centerpiece Idea

Branch Centerpiece Idea
by Jen L

 

Here is a wedding centerpiece idea based off of branches which seem to be pretty popular lately. (At least in magazines and on wedding tv shows!) It's pretty simple to make it and I estimate it costing roughly $28 before tax to make one. I can see this looking awesome at a winter wedding and even working at a spring wedding done with more of an earthy color palate. Here's how I made it:

Centerpiece & Cardbox Ideas

My wedding theme is stars and butterflies. Kind if out there but I am kind of an out there girl! My wedding venue is very eclectic and unique inside with a very unique interior. The ceiling has large metal stars with shapes punched out and light flowing through. This was my inspiration for my theme.

I need to find a way to make it all work together. Stars and butterflies seem way out there theme wise, combining them tactfully may be difficult.

I'm not very traditional. I want a colorful, unique and personality filled wedding.  I'm not very big into white and frilly (although it can be very beautiful, it's just not me!) so I have been pondering what can I do for a card box? I don't want a wishing well, cake, or mail box... so what can I do?!

This idea is a work in progress. I have no idea how I will pull it off yet. I'd like to give it a cute vintage feel to it and somehow incorporate some butterflies. The card slot would go in the box below. (might use a larger box, this one was kind of small). The stars would be more decoration.

I even though about taking the lids off of the stars to make mini dioramas inside of the stars (woah, cute!) but that would require more thought!

I like the idea of this because it's tall, inexpensive, and will fill up space as a decoration. We'll see, as of right now I have no other ideas... I have some time to think, though!

As for centerpieces my first thought was to take a fish bowl, some metallic star stickers that I colored with alcohol inks and placed onto the fish bowl randomly.

(the pen is there for scale, lol)

The small cell phone picture really does it no justice. The alcohol inks really added to the stars and made it a pretty little centerpiece.

I ended up buying several of the smaller candle holder on the bottom left and a few of the single stars in large and medium.  I plan on filling the glass candle holder with liquid pearls that are colored and use our new LED lights that can go under water.  I tried this out in a dark room and it lit up the whole room with a pretty pattern as the light went through the water pearls! I'm using a decorative scrapbook paper as a "mat" underneath the vases and the stars might go on the head table, bar,  or on the mantle piece behind it. We'll see how those fit in.

I bet you're wondering what this wedding is going to look like, me too! Stay with me through the planning journey and I'll share the after pictures when I get them!

It's almost to the one year point!

I just realized it's already May... that means 12 months until I get married! The countdown is on! I am working on invitation ideas I'll share with you all soon as well as some new bouquet ideas and more! Stay tuned!

Flowers!

So, my wedding date is going to be in May of 2010... I know, I know it seems like ages away but to a bride to be it's never too soon to plan, Especially when you work at a craft store!  So I've never been a very traditional girl, I may even be described as a little weird or goofy at times... but I like things that are a little bit different then the norm.  When I was deciding what flowers I want to use for my bouquet one came to mind: Star Protea.

(This photo came out a little lighter than they really are)

Hello everyone

Welcome to the wedding crafts page of the Pat Catan's Crafts & News blog.  It's off to a slow start as I'm waiting for more photos and info to come in but hopefully this will become a place to archive a lot of great wedding ideas. 

There is a tool bar under the main image which has links to different topics. I hope to add party favors and centerpieces soon as well as update the current links with photos of the ideas when I get them.

I'm getting married myself in a year so I'm going to try to keep this up to date with fun, random wedding info, ideas and more.  If you have any creative wedding advice, ideas, or crafts and want to share please contact us!

-Jen