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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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Turn small pumpkins into vases for your floral centerpieces

We hosted a party at our house, and I decided that this would be a great opportunity to test out the cost and time effectiveness of my DIY centerpiece idea: flowers in a real pumpkin vase. Here’s how I pulled it off…

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Add a little charm to your bouquet

We’ve written before about adding something unexpected to your floral bouquet, but when I tweeted about this origami necklace, Offbeat Bride Gemma tweeted back…

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Compliment a DIY bridal brooch bouquet with DIY ornament bridesmaids bouquets

I love seeing Offbeat Bride DIY projects show up in weddings! Indiana Offbeat Bride Conna recently coordinated her bridal brooch bouquet (DIY tutorial here) with ornament bouquets for her bridesmaids (DIY tutorial here).

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Fun and easy DIY tissue paper flowers

If your bridal shower went down ANYTHING like mine, you were left with PILES of tissue paper that (three years later) I’m still re-using. Offbeat Bride reader Violet has a great idea on how you can use all that colorful tissue paper as festive wedding decor. Here she is with your tissue paper flower tutorial…