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If you’re looking for free wedding printables and wedding DIY tutorials, it’s here. We’ve got everything from wedding decor DIY projects to fashion DIY, and of course DIY wedding favors. But for the love of god, mostly everyone wants wedding invitation DIY — we’ve got it all!

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Use watercolor swatches to share your wedding color scheme

I’ve been wringing my hands over my “dusky” wedding colors, and it’s been difficult to explain to my bridesmaids what I generally had in mind. A lot of them will have to search for their dresses solo, and I think some of the girls have been nervous to just start looking without a narrower focus. So I sat down with my watercolors and metallic nail polish and started hammering out swatches…

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Turn trays into elegant, wedding-ready chalkboard signs

Check out how chalkboard paint can turn pretty shiny trays into elegant, wedding-ready signs for your big event! Aaron and Emily used these beauties to direct guests to their ceremony and venue locations, and to highlight their card box…

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Science-y, steampunk-y vial place cards

We’re trying to make our reception tables look like the desk of a (mad?) scientist or at least a bit bookish and science-y. So these are our place cards! They’re all itty bitty glass vials with a label and some contents. The label names are geeky references. The contents are mostly things from the pantry. And then we’re gonna put the name cards on top.

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Will you be our Companions?: Whovian wedding party proposal boxes

These wedding party proposal boxes were loosely based off the idea of those cute “Be My Maid” boxes that regularly pop up on Pinterest, as well as the awesome spin-offs I’ve seen on Offbeat Bride. Since we are having a Doctor Who wedding, the boxes had to be Whovian.