Wedding on a penny

When Matthew and I got married I got creative and made lots of things for our wedding to cut cost.

I made our wedding programs, center pieces for the tables, crayons for the children's table,.....

My husband played a pivotable role in the making of our wedding programs, he measured each piece and cut them for me. I typed up all the information for each sheet and copied them on a pretty nice piece of paper. Tied them together with ribbon in our colors.

I made the cute crayons from old crayons by melting them down in an old pan over low heat.

Shaping them was the best part. I used plastic candy molds, to make the ones with sticks I used sucker molds and sucker sticks. To make sure the sticks held I poured a little more melted crayon over the stick when it had cooled to the touch. These were so easy and cute.

Lined the paper with newspaper paper from the print shop in town and let the kids have a ball.

Pictured above are the center pieces made for the tables and also placed at various other places through out the reception venue.

I made the flowers from napkins, dinner and cocktail napkins. The hardest part was taking the napkins apart from each other. (I didn't use tissue paper because the napkins were cheaper and held up better) I cut a mold from an old cereal box. Simple again, 9 inch by 6 inch square and then cutting it jagged on the ends. I used 8 napkins per flower. I simply folded them according style and tied them in the center with a piece of floral wire. Fanned out the flower and placed them in the vases.

Each flower took about 5 minutes.