Wedding Wednesday - part 6
Today ... my favourite wedding project: The corsages ... (other wedding related posts here)
Ours, and wearing them during our first dance :)Rather than make boutonnieres, which just didn't appeal to me, I handmade little photo corsage/ribbon/brooch/award things for all the wedding party and immediate family. Unfortunately in the rush to finish them, I didn't document me making them, or the final brooches before I gave them out. The photos here are from after the wedding - and I've tried my best to include pictures of their wearers too - also found this difficult and am missing a few ... oooooh wellllll ...
The parents...
My sister...
Sunshine's sister and brother-in-law
The bestman ...
The man-of-honour...
My grandma (left) and the bridesman (right)
The missing photos are Nic, the bestlady, who had one similar to my sister's in shades of orange; and my aunt (mum's sister) whose birthday it was that day and who got one similar to the mums' but in shades of green.
The photo frames are little dollhouse frames that I spray-painted white. The whole thing is stuck/sewn to a backing piece of felt onto which I attached a safety pin. Fairly straight forward you would think - but it took a long time: sourcing the right colours and combinations of ribbons; doing all the sewing - especially sewing all the names on; sourcing all the photographs; and just in general putting it all together. The family photos are of us when we were young with the respective family member; and the ones with the "best posse" were again one of us with the respective wearer. I am SO happy with these. I am going to frame up Sunshine and mine's with the peg-doll cake-toppers that Sunshine's sister made for us, with a few other wedding bits and bobs into a shadow box. My mum wants to frame our family ones too ... really glad I took the time do this ... and so enjoyed it too :)
5 comments:
Of all your wedding projects this one I liked the most. When Tiara handover the corsages to me,I cried for almost half an hour.It made me soo emotional,I was showing it to everyone,saying " this is her first photo, she was only few ours old".Thanks Myth for such wonderful memory and gift!! Ammu.
Oh WOW! These are incredible! I just clicked over from Craft and I'm blown away. Off to explore the rest of your blog...
I'm not sure how I came across your blog, but I'm so glad I did. Love your projects, and the wedding photos are so joyous!
Hi,
Your wedding looks gorgeous and I love your blog!
Big favour to ask though: where did your father-in-law get his shirt? I've been looking for a shirt with that collar everywhere to no avail! (the name of the style would be useful too if you know it.)
Thank you and keep up the awesome work.
gnatquill, in the west they're called "Nehru" collars; as in Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India, who used to wear them alot (although the style has been around for ages in the Indian subcontinent).
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