Whether you’re looking to have a ‘green wedding’, love the shabby chic trend or simply wanting to save the pennies, a lick of paint and some creative thought can go a long way increating the perfect wedding.
Upcycling expert, editor of All Round Creative Junkie and North East Blogger of the Year Cheryl Lumley shares her tips for adding that extra sparkle to a wedding without breaking the bank.
Weddings have changed. We’re no longer constrained by hotel function rooms, roast chicken dinners and traditional wedding planners anymore. We want personal touches that show off our personalities: we want vintage tea parties, rustic country settings, to wear converse with our wedding dresses and to dance in barns with bunting and hay bale seats. We are creating whole weekend events – mini festivals, almost. The traditional wedding rule book has gone and we now do whatever we want, hooray!
While everyone wants their wedding to be amazing, we also don’t want to spend our life savings on just one weekend, no matter how magical. A few key trends for 2016 can be easily recreated on a budget with a little forward planning and creativity. A bit of clever upcycling and crafting can create a completely personal theme and save a lot of money in the process – money you can spend on a well-deserved honeymoon instead.
Metallics, glitter and gold are opulent, sparkly and perfect for a wedding. A great way to adda touch of gold is through table decorations. Rather than ending up with 10 identical vases or floral centre pieces you’re stuck with afterwards, start early and collect jam jars and tins to upcycle into quirky centre pieces. Use Rust-Oleum Metallic Spray Paint in Pure Gold or Aged Copper to turn empty jars into mini vases. You’ll need a couple of coats of paint then once dry you can decorate with ribbons, jute, buttons and even wool to tie in your colour scheme.
Gold
To add personalised monograms, mix your jars with the cardboard initials you can find in craft shops (or cut them out yourself from card), dip them in glitter and you’ve got your own sparkly scheme for a fraction of the cost.
Seating plans and table numbers
With a little bit of planning you can create quirky matching or mismatched table numbers really easily with a few paint techniques.
Scour charity shops or second hand shops for out-of-date frames and using textured paint, such as Rust-Oleum Furniture Paint in either Chalky Finish or Gloss paint each of the frames in your own colour scheme. You don’t need to prime them, just paint all the frames in either the same shade or coordinating colours.
There are a couple of ways you could use the frames:
1. Remove the glass and paint the backing board with Rust-Oleum Chalkboard Paint in black and use them for seating plans or table numbers. By setting aside the glass you can use the frames afterwards as normal picture frames for all your wedding pictures.
2. Collect wallpaper samples to tie in with your theme. You won’t need much wallpaperfor a few frames, then either stencil the table names or numbers directly onto the paper or use wet erasable chalk pens to write directly onto the glass. These are also still useable afterwards.
Make your own bunting
Rustic weddings outdoors and in barns are really on trend at the moment and hessian (orburlap) is a big feature of this style.
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