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Invitation DIY

We’ve got tons of DIY wedding invitation ideas for you, including printables, tutorials, and templates — all with an offbeat twist! We’ve also got non-DIY wedding invitation ideas, plus a ton of wedding invitation advice, including the oh-so-important invitation wording examples.

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How to make your wedding invitations out of vintage handkerchiefs

This handkerchief printing technique can be used for so many things — Goodie bags with your wedding logo? Dual purpose hankie wedding programs for those guests who get teary eyed at the ceremony? The possibilities are endless! So here is how we made our handkerchief wedding invitations…

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How to make your own Medieval seating chart

Tribesmaid Sunspirit made her seating chart with a Medieval flair. It’s absolutely gorgeous, and full of details like knights, shields, mythical animals, and ye olde maps. If you wanna get your Medieval seating chart on, here’s a great tutorial.

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Save the Date with 8-bit heart magnets

Tribesmaid Baconkins made these adorkable pixelated heart magnet, affixed with her wedding date. Here’s how she made them herself.

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80+ free wedding printables – our humungous list of downloadable DIY wedding projects

There are hidden freebies all over the web: downloadable templates, patterns, fonts, fingerprint trees, and more. I stumble across them all the time while browsing blogs. But now I’m attempting to compile a MEGA-SUPER-MONDO list of all kinds of free printables and downloadable templates for wedding DIY projects.

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Make your own stamps using tumbling blocks

Stamps are a great way to personalize anything from paper napkins to RSVP cards, and small muslin bags for favors to after-party back-of-the-hand style party antics. Whatever your reason for wanting a stamp, you can create a pile of them easily, mixing and matching them to suit your needs. Here’s how to make your own.

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The perfect Save the Dates for your Harry Potter-themed wedding

Chad and Casey are having a “Harry Potter-esque” wedding. So what better way to introduce their guests to what magical wedding experiences await them than by delivering their Save the Dates via messenger owl!