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Floral DIY

We have tons of floral DIY ideas and tutorials including: paper wedding flowers, bouquets with swords, origami, and even 8-bit flowers. We also have ideas for DIY succulent terrariums, flower crowns, and more! Get flowery, paper-y, or fashion-y with your wedding florals!

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How to make Super Mario terrarium centerpieces

Remember these geeky wedding terrariums? A lot of you have been wondering how to make your own geeky terrariums. Thanks to Tribesmaid Momo, here’s a nifty tutorial on how to make a geeky terrarium a la Super Mario…

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How to make your own fiddlehead fern boutonnieres from sculpy clay

So the time has come to tackle the boutonnieres. The idea is to use sculpy clay to create fiddlehead ferns. These ferns are mad $$ in real life for the real flower, but they came out awesome in sculpy clay. Here’s how I pulled these off…

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Make flowers out of love letters (or emails)

“Eirik handmade all the flowers. Since we met online, my bouquet was made out of paper that I had printed our very first emails to each other on. My bridesmaids’ flowers had their respective names printed on them, the moms had white flowers with “Mom” printed on them, and the groomsmen and dads had boutonnieres made out of pages from comics books.”

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Keep it cute and simple with this mini-succulent + tea lights centerpiece combo

We love it when a picture so perfectly captures a sweet, simple idea. The concept behind the centerpieces at Maeraj and Michael’s wedding is just tiny succulents in jam jars + tea lights. That’s it. The end. The result is not only lovely and clean, but your guests also get adorable little plants to take home with them.