Wedding Head Table

Here is the head table for the fall wedding we just did. For this post I want to focus on what's behind the table. The wooden trellis looking items are inserts for french doors. I have had these in my attic for about 10 years and since we couldn't really put anything on the walls they ended up being handy to hang the bride and groom signs and the burlap banner behind the table.

Total costs for this project for us:
Inserts: On hand
Burlap: scrap from other project
Sign: Old sign I had outside turned over and painted on Bride and Groom (FREE)
Paint for burlap: $.33 cents
Wire for one sign: $.33 cents
Total: $.66 cents

Wish board for Reception Area

We created this wish board with an old frame, chicken wire, and some spray paint.

Total Costs for project:
Frame from old dresser at goodwill: $4.99
Spray paint: $1.99
Chicken Wire: $5.00
Clothespins: $1.00
Paper: left over from napkin wraps
Total Costs: $13.00

Napkin Wraps for Wedding

We created napkin wraps for the plastic utensils and napkins at each place setting. We bought some kraft paper and printed out the Groom's last name and folded the paper around the napkin and utensils.

Cost:

Napkins = 2 packs at $1.99 each

Kraft Paper = $2.50

Printer (on hand)

Utensils (on hand)

Total Costs: $6.48

For drinks at the wedding we had water, tea, and lemonade. For the drink dispensers that we had on hand or borrowed I created burlap tags to identify the drinks inside. This was a very quick and easy project. We also elevated the dispensers with a piece of wood to go along with the them.

Totals costs for project:

wood discs for dispensers = FREE

Burlap = $.50 for a very small piece

Orange Paint = $.50 for a bottle of craft paint

Ribbon = $.33 cents for a spool

Foam Stamps = $2.00

Total Costs = $3.33 for some custom drink dispenser tags

Chair Wraps - Fall Wedding Decor

At the reception venue they had brown fold up chairs and we didn't want to rent anything else because that would be costly so we went with a simple chair wrap. We found rolled spools up burlap in the floral supply section at Michael's. They are placed near the clay pots and hot glue area in our store. We also bought orange ribbon and a light burlap by the yard and orange burlap by the yard. We cut the burlap into 3 circles and sewed them together to make a flower for the backs of the wraps.

Total Costs of Project:
4 rolls of burlap ribbon @ $6.00 = $24.00 (we bought some with 40% off)
yard of plain burlap = $2.00
yard of orange burlap = $2.00
buttons (on hand)
orange ribbon (on hand)
Total Costs: $28.00 for 80 chair wraps

Stump Centerpieces for Wedding

My friend wanted the reception to feel very fallish. She wanted the first thing that popped out when you walked in to be pumpkins because she loves them. So we came up with this idea to fill out the table centerpieces. Stumps carved with intials and heart and a pumpkin sitting on top.

Total Costs for this project:

Stumps = Free

Carving Tool = Free (on hand)

Pumpkins = 10 at $2.00 each $20.00 ( we borrowed many of them from friends fall displays)

Moss = 1 bag at Michael's at 40% off approx $3.00 - one bag did all the tables and more

Total Costs of project: $23.00

Cake Pop Holder

I love cake pops so it was a natural thing to make them for my friend's wedding. I have to admit they aren't the most attractive pumpkin cake pops I have ever seen(for some reason my chocolate never coats them perfectly like Bakerella???) but they were tasty and they looked adorable if I do say so myself. We put one at each place setting. All I did was go grab a few branches that had fallen in the woods, sawed them in pieces, and screwed holes in the top. Then I stuck in the cake pop sucker stick. Easy, Peasy, cute and tasty. Oh yeah, I added a thank you tag too!

Total Costs for 80 cake pops favors and stands:

Wood = free
Sucker Sticks = $2.00
Devil's Food Cake Mix(X2) = $2.50
White Icing(X2)=$3.00
Clear Bags(X2) = $2.00
Orange Chocolate Melts(X3)=$4.50
Paper and Ink = on hand FREE
Total = $14.00 for 80 favors (not too shabby :P)

Card Stump - Wedding

For th fall wedding we we're going with the natural theme. We live in a woodsy area and we figured we could make a lot of things from tree stumps and limbs that had already fallen over. We wanted to dress up th gift table so we created a card stump to hold all the cards from the wedding. It was very easy and looked great at the wedding. All you do is find a medium size stumped and cut some angled cuts in it...Easy peasy.....and best of all FREE! And as an added bonus you have firewood after the wedding. More ideas coming soon..keep checking back.

Costs for Project:

Stump = Free

Chainsaw to cut stump = Free (on hand but you could borrow from someone)

Total Costs: Free and you have firewood after the wedding :)

Cupcake Table

I recently helped a friend plan and implement her fall wedding. Here is a sneak peak of the big day. One of my favorite parts of the decor was the cupcake table but there are lots more fun ideas and I will posting them very soon. I hope you like this cupcake table as much as I enjoyed pulling it together.

Project Total not including cupcake ingredients:

Stumps = Free

Chainsaw to cut stumps = Free(on hand)

Cupcake liners = $4.00

Total: $4.00

I made 2 batches of pumpkin and 2 batches of apple cider cupcakes. There was a total of around 120 cupcakes used in this display.