Inspiration for your road to the altar

This hand painted teacup tutorial on Etsy is such a cute idea! It would be a great way to personalize a gift for your tea (or coffee) loving bridesmaids, and it could even make a really fun shower activity. The paint has to dry for 24 hours, but if each guest painted a cup and saucer for the bride and groom, they would be all set!

This is such a creative idea from Mitsy at Artmind {via Poppytalk}. You can see all the steps right here, but essentially with some cookie cutters and melted wax, you can create different shapes fairly easily to use in a variety of ways. As soon as I saw the picture below I thought these would make a great idea for escort “cards.”

If you made them a little bigger, it would be easy to affix a sticker (or piece of paper of some sort) to the front with a name and table number. Maybe if you stuck it on there before the wax completely dried? Or if you had a smaller wedding you could get a series of smaller trees (one for each table) and only add each guests name to the wax flower, so they could keep it to use as an ornament in the future. What do you think?

These customizable message cookie cutters would work great for making your own cookie favors! You could easily slide in letters that spell out your names, date, etc. For $19.99 its certainly a great alternative for all of you with the DIY spirit! {From Williams Sonoma, found via Something Old, Something New}