The gift area at a wedding is a great area to use some creativity and tie into the overall theme of a wedding.  For our outdoor orchard wedding I just knew that I wanted to make a mailbox card holder, especially being that we only registered for our Honeymoon.  We planned on mainly getting cards and gifts towards our Maui getaway being that we already had all the household goodies we needed.

Since we had the county idea and hay bales being used in other part of the reception, we were also able to incorporate a hay bale in next to the mail box to hold the larger gifts.  This set up was at the entry of our wedding.  I hate going to a party or wedding and feeling awkward carrying around my gift, not knowing where it should go, so I really wanted this to be a cute, designated focal point when entering the wedding area. Continue reading »

I absolutely loved my wedding cake stand.  I had seen the idea of making a tree stump stand while searching rustic wedding ideas, so I asked my dad if he thought it was possible.  He looked around at fallen trees and wood to be chopped for firewood and came up with the perfect pieces.  He got to work and quickly my dream became a reality!

I just love how unique and personalized it is.  Being that we had a dessert bar, we were not planning on a large cake.  My mom was kind enough to volunteer (or should I say get suckered into) baking the cake.  It was so delicious and just perfect!  She also frosted it in this great rustic style and then we had fresh flowers cascading down the side of it.

I made the cake toppers by just getting wooden letters and a small dowel from the craft store.  I got a larger G for our last name and a small A and H for our first names.  I painted them brown on the front and back, and then fuchsia along the edges as the bright accent color. Then I used hot glue to attach the letters to one-foot tall segments of the wooden dowel.  This way it was easy to insert them into the cake to stand on the top and all the flowers helped to hide the entry of the dowels. Such a cheap and fun cake topper! Continue reading »

With our rustic orchard themed wedding, I just new we had to include a few hand-painted wood signs.  Luckily for us, there was an old shed on my parent’s property that had partially burned down years prior before they lived there and they had not yet gotten around to tearing it down.  We were able to salvage some of the weathered siding from the shed to make our rustic signs.  The wood was perfect; faded from years in the sun, remnants of old chipping paint, rusted out nail holes and slightly charred in some places.  It really gave our signs the character I wanted!  Here is one of my favorites signs we made that was next to our appetizer/dessert table:

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