February 19th, 2009
DIY Pearl Wedding Wreath
My fiance and I spent this past weekend making DIY save-the-dates, DIY pearl wedding wreaths, and securing hotel rooms, a fantastic DJ, the ceremony site, and the rehearsal dinner site. It was a fun, long weekend. Here is one of the projects that we worked on for a few hours:
My future mother-in-law helped me with this project (special thanks to her!). We bought a foam floral wreath at the dollar store and a spool of white ribbon out of the dollar bin at Michael’s. We used most of the ribbon by wrapping it around the foam floral wreath.
Then we put my fiance to work (special thanks to him!). He cut the strands of pearls that my future sister-in-law (special thanks to her!) collected for us during Mardi Gras, so the pearls cost us nothing.
After the pearls were cut, I used a glue gun to glue the pearls on the front and sides of the ribbon-covered wreath. It took a couple hours to glue all of the pearls onto the wreath; however, it was pretty mindless, so you could listen to music or television while doing it. We’re going to hang these wreaths on the end of the church pews.
Total cost for one wreath:
Floral foam wreath: $1.00
White ribbon: $1.00
Glue gun: $0.00 – we already had this
Glue sticks: $0.00 – we already had these
Pearl beads: $0.00 – beads collected from Mardi Gras
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Total: $2.00
