DIY Wedding: Just MAKE Decisions. |

This site seems GREAT for bulk DIY flowers!

We will likely combine these garden roses with the Ranunculus and some rosemary for the wedding flowers!

Don’t be scared and don’t listen to people who think you are crazy for having your colors before your dress or your menu before your location. JUST MAKE DECISIONS. What do I mean? If you know ANYTHING that you want for sure at your DIY wedding, make the decision, don’t go back, and do the research to make it happen. Bookmark everything you decide and move on. Don’t turn back unless you absolutely have to.

That being said, in reality, your most important first two decisions are date and location. Once that is locked in, you can move forward with Save The Dates, invitations, room blocks, and your wedding website.

Jeff and I can’t look at locations until the weekend before Thanksgiving, but that doesn’t mean we can’t lock in other things we like before that. A really good DIY wedding requires psycho style planning! We will be doing the job of MANY people over the course of the next 10 months. Choose anything you can think of to get it out-of-the-way!

This is our main wedding font! We love that it comes in a solid and dashed version.

Balsa Wood Gliders will be our Escort "cards", perched atop our favors, small jars of homemade pickles!

Here is our list of almost everything we have to deal with (highlighted items are decisions we’ve already made, started, or narrowed down):

Theme
Date (ours is September 24! )
Location– tent rental for bad weather, porta-potties, tables, chairs, small ceremony platform, sound system of some sort
Room Blocks
List of Guests and all addresses
Save-the-Dates
Invitations– Design them. Then choose paper, patterns, and font.
Music
Rehearsal Dinner
Wedding Menu– personalized potato chip bags, personalized picnic containers
Wedding signage for carnival games, table numbers, make-your-own sandwich suggestion drawings
Flowers
Decoration– Make paper pom poms, balloons, streamers, other pretty fun things
Favors/ Seat assignments
Picnic Blankets/ Table coverings
Picnic Baskets
The wedding party and what they will wear
Camping welcome kits
Hotel welcome kits
Menu for the wedding week
My dress, veil, shoes, and strong girdle...
Jeff’s suit, shirt, tie and shoes
Research officiants and plan ceremony
Buy rings
Ring Pillow
Wedding Programs
Hire or enlist a friend to do face painting
Prizes for field day games
Field day games…
Marriage Certificate
The cake and topper
Plan the clean up