Crafts: Wedding Must-have Seating Place Card

Seating place card. You know how the guest will eventually forget where they sit after mingling around before the dinner starts. A seating place card will comes in handy to remind them and even find friends that will be seated with them prior to dinner! We just love how to keep our guest comfortable and organized! I have designed my own set of Seating Place Card to accentuate our wedding theme.

I think a seating place cards are really a necessity. It will ensure that the wedding guests are seated at the right table and have the appropriate meals (example, vegetarian or halal).

A common yet easy way is to issue them with the seating place card when they register themselves at the reception.

Here’s some lovely inspiration we found via Pinterest. Oh my, have we ever told you how much we love Pinterest!

Via Pinterest

Crafts: Origami Kusudama Paper Flower Bouquet

Over the weekend, I was motivated (finally!) to craft the origami kusudama flower bouquet that I always wanted to craft for my lovely bridesmaid. I’m still in my trial and error process so bear with me if it doesn’t look that perfect yet.

Agnes Maurice Kusudama Origami Paper Flower Bouquet

A little history about Kusudama, kusudama translated means “medicine ball” and were traditionally used as incense and poutpurri, from real flowers or herbs. But now decorative kusudama are made by using folded paper origami units glued together and we see them more for decoration or as a gift. The japanese kusudama can be made into a paper ball by gluing multiple identical kusudama flower together. It will make an excellent wedding favor!

Kusudama Flower Ball, credits to origamigeek.

Coming weekend, we shall share a tutorial post how to make a simple kusudama flower in the next DIY tutorial blogpost!

Inspired by this Origami Kusudama Flower Bouquet found online

It all started when I chanced upon this while surfing online. I was inspired by this bouquet found in Pinterest and it ignited my curiosity and passion to craft one myself! But making this requires using a styrofoam ball. I am definitely not adventurous enough to try it out yet. Not mentioning the cost of a styrofoam ball in Singapore! A typical 4 inches styrofoam ball cost $9 dollars and more at ArtFriend. But a bouquet as such takes a 6 inches styrofoam ball! So, until I’m more confident, I guess I will just keep it to wire mesh (A pack costs only $3 at ArtFriend!) to form a decent bouquet!

Over the weekend we also tried making spiral paper flower as inspired by a white dainty spiral bouquet we chanced upon online too.

Spiral Paper Flower Bouquet

Making spiral flower bouquet is 10 times easier than making a kusudama flower as all it requires are some basic circular cutting and rolling it up with a paper quilling tool. We will follow up soon with a tutorial post and also, DIY Printable for you to try at home! Did I mention before that doing paper craft is therapeutic? Should give it a try if you have some spare time! (:

Alternatively, you can also engage me for crafting lesson at my place. I’m sure it would be fun and I promise I won’t bite!

We made 12 loose paper flowers in two shades of blue. Each flower is about 1-2 inch in diameter and the paper used for these flowers is a royal blue and light pale blue. These flowers look beautiful as table decorations, as the finishing touch to gift wrap, or in a jar. They are beautiful at weddings and baby showers, sure to make a great impression as decorations for any occasion.

They are up on sale at our Etsy store. If your wedding is around the corner and you need a larger quantity but not the same designs? Or a bigger size and a different color? No worries, just drop us a convo and we will be glad to help you!

Before we end off, we hope you will have a great week ahead! It’s Monday and we know the blues.

Till then!