DIY Wedding Ideas: Where to Find Inspiration
Want to know some of my favorite places to find DIY wedding ideas?
1. Google Images - This is such a handy dandy tool for finding DIY wedding ideas, I’m not sure I could blog without it! Google Images retreives only images of your search query. This is great if you are looking for ideas on a particular DIY wedding project. I use this A LOT!
2. Flickr- I just recently joined Flickr and have quickly realized what a wonderful resource it is for DIY wedding ideas. Simply type in your search query, and you will be flooded with images on your given topic.
3. Websites – In recent months I’ve come across a couple of sites that I find particularly useful. iDIY has a ton of great ideas for creating a DIY wedding. The Wedding Channel’s My DIY Wedding Day, which launched a few months ago, is quickly becoming a popular site for DIY wedding ideas. Another site I really dig is One PrettyThing which has links to oodles of DIY projects.
4. Books – I’m crazy about my local library and recently picked up a couple of helpful books: The Michael’s Book of Paper Crafts and The Michael’s Book of Wedding Crafts. The DIY Bride and Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Crafts are also full of great DIY projects.
I’d love to hear about where you find inspiration. Got favorite websites or books with DIY ideas? Do tell!
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June 25th, 2009 at 8:21 am
I love to find inspiration on the internet and magazines. Some of my favorites websites are Style Me Pretty and Vintage Glam. I also like Snippet & Ink.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:33 am
I use Flickr for inspiration too! There are so many many wedding photos on there. I searched for “gerbera” and “mason jar” and found great centerpiece ideas.
June 25th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I have found a lot of great tutorials and DIY inspiration from all the great wedding bloggers out there. There are so many creative young women sharing their successes and also their trials and errors. Te Martha Stewart book is an awesome craft book, its like the crafters bible!
And thanks for the lead on Flickr, showed me how I can use it in a totally new way.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:48 am
My husband and I put most of the wedding together ourselves, and we loved how customized and personalized it was that way. Our biggest inspiration was looking at the talents of our friends and finding places to use those talents. One talented friend made my dress, the bridesmaids’ dresses, and all of our jewelry. Another made our cakes. Another made cookies that were served at the reception. Others played the music that my husband wrote. Friends from church made our wedding time capsule, my husband made our cake topper (out of LEGOs!), his dad put together a slideshow, his mom made our centerpieces, we made our own save-the-date magnets, our own scroll invitations, and all our parents provided their unity candles for a very customized unity candle ceremony. If you are interested in some of these, feel free to visit our website (www.whenisthewedding.com), and look at the customizations page and the resources page. We hope to add more how-tos to the resources page soon.