Brooch Bouquet

Hey Everyone,
While looking on Pinterest for some inspiration on my wedding, I came across this beautiful bouquet made from handfuls of brooches. It was stunning. I decided that I had to have one for my wedding. Not only was it beautiful it was very different without being over the top. At first I looked up how much it cost to just have one made. Prices that I found were $300 and up and it was crazy. So I decided to do one myself, so I looked up all the materials that I would need to pull this off. The checklist included floral wire 20 gauge, your choice of artificial flowers, brooches, floral tape, hot glue gun and glue sticks, and finally ribbon. I'll link the tutorial at the bottom of this post. I did take pics of the first steps of my bouquet and the final product. It wasn't easy but it was worth it. I reassembled my bouquet eight times before I finally said it was good enough for me. I wish you luck if you decided to do one for your wedding. Take care.
Much love and Many Blessings,
Kismet

















This was bouquet the first time I assembled it.




Final product



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DIY Wedding #2

Hey All,

If you've read my previous post you know that I'm getting married!

My fiancé and I have been together for seven years. We've always planned to get married but things always made us postpone the date. My fiancé always thought having a wedding wasn't necessary and our money would be better spent elsewhere. So he just wanted to go to the courthouse.

I on the other hand had my wedding planned since I was little girl. I wanted to have a giant ball room dress with a sparkly tiara and my groom to have the tuxedo with the tails in the back.

When I became pregnant with my daughter, I started to see that dream get a little dimmer. I'm a very realistic person, I knew once my daughter was here, all my focus and resources would be going to her. So I started to plan for a courthouse ceremony with a reception dinner afterwards, but my heart wasn't in it. It wasn't how I wanted to get married.

Last fall my fiancé's best friend got married and my fiancé was one of the groomsmen. When he came back from the wedding he realized why having a wedding was such a big deal to me.

We made the agreement that it would be small but nice. He told me to start planning and look at places to give us a ball park of where our budget would be.

So that's how my wedding planning started. In my next post I'll go over how I came up with our budget.

DIY Wedding Part 1

Hey All,

Thank you for continuing to follow my blog after such a hiatus. It's been a super long time since I've written a post. A lot of things have been going on in my life over that period.

As you know, I had a baby girl in Fall 2012. In Spring 2014 we had another baby. So lately I've had my hands full.

To add to this, I've started to plan my own wedding. This is why I've titled this blog DIY Wedding. In this series I'm going to share how I'm planning and executing my wedding basically on my own.

I have used inspiration from Pinterest and from things that are important to me to incorporate into my wedding. My next post will be a background on how we got to the starting point of having a wedding. Until then much love and many blessings.

Kismet