DIY Barn Wood Sign

 I have been seeing barn wood signs all over the place lately & I am obsessed with them! they fit right in with my personality & decor of my house, and a lot of my friends' also :)

We live on a farm & happen to have a huge pile of old barn wood at our place that is just calling my name & so I undertook a few barn wood sign projects the past few months & here are a couple of what I have done.

Supplies:

Barn wood (can also used pallet wood boards or other wood)

Scrap pieces of wood

Nails

Hammer

Paint of choice

1. Cut your barn wood to size you prefer

2. Use your scrap pieces of wood to run vertical on the back side of your wood & nail them into your barn wood (this will secure the pieces together to make a larger sign like the one on the left)

3. Paint whatever you would like on the sign

Ceiling Decor

Via Forever Fresh

When you walk into a wedding reception & the ceiling is decorated either with soft, romantic fabric, glamorous lights, chandeliers, lanterns, grape vine balls, pomanders or a combination of a couple of these it takes your breath away. People have ceiling decor for various types of reasons: to cover the venues ceiling &/or walls to transform the venue, to add romance to the venue, to bring the room down in size & make everything proportionate, whatever the reason may be, it never goes unnoticed!

Fabric with with or without lights added

Via Pic Stoppin

Chandeliers

Via Zena Dia Design

Grape Vine Balls

Via Elizabeth Anne Designs

Lanterns

Via Mahnita

String Lights

Via Super Weddings

Strike A Pose! Continuing Trend into 2013

Have you ever attend a wedding reception gone to cocktail  or social hour & you just kinda feel like there isn't a lot to do, so you are just kinda hanging out until the supper & dance starts? Well we have just the thing for you! Entertaining your guests is a HUGE part of every wedding - you want your guests to go away from your event saying "this was the best ever" or "I haven't had this great of a time at a wedding in a long time." Let's face it you want your guests to remember your event & be the first thing people think of when they hear the word wedding - fun, eventful, memorable, & beautiful! 

Photo booths used to be used more so for the birthday party & high school type of events, but why not have them at your wedding? They are fun & entertaining! Photo booths showed up at weddings in our area about 2 yrs ago & have become very popular. They are great to use as favors for your guests or just to add that extra fun to the night to keep your guests engaged & socializing.

 Now you can either hire a professional company that specializes in photo booths for you, see if your photographer offers some type of photo booth thing (as many do now), or you can create your own photo booth -adding personality & charm to your event.

The newest Trend right now is the DIY photo booth & we love this concept! I mean the possibilities are endless, you can create it for next to no money, you get to be creative, it will be one-of-a-kind & guests will feel more connected to you & your event.

Make it as fun, silly or chic as you want all these are found Via Pinterest

 

 

 

 

Candlelight

Candlelight, something that has been around since the beginning of time. It used to be used in place of electricity (since that was not yet invented) & to help keep you warm. These days it does about the same thing for weddings: not only do you use ALOT of candles in place of the big over head lights that most venues have, but it automatically sets a pure romantic, intimate feeling that helps to "warm up" any venue. We see candles being everywhere in weddings still today from the church to the centerpieces. It is always bright, welcoming, & romantic.

Here are just very few of  our weddings we have recently done with lots of candlelight.

Aroma is in the air

Radisson - Bismarck, ND

We were the very first company that had the honors of decorating the Bismarck Radisson hotel right after it had been remodeled in 2012. Actually this event took place 3 days after the remodel was done! This was a black & chocolate brown wedding with red accents & here is what we did....

 

The ballroom is on the second floor of the hotel so we made sure to drape the staircase leading up to the ballroom & at the very top of the stairs we had hung their banner to welcome their guests.