A funny thing happens when you're trying to save money on a wedding. It forces you to think outside the box, get creative, and you find that opportunities arise to make things more personal. That's what happened when we looked for alternatives to floral arrangements for our ceremony decor.
As you may know, Mr. Casserole, my beloved guybrarian, has a longstanding ironic habit of destroying books for the sake of art. We have loads of dismembered old book parts lying around, so when I saw this as inspiration, I thought: "Dang, I can do that." I got some foam wreath forms from the craft store, my trusty glue gun, some scalloping shears, convinced Matt to part with some book pages . . . and made a pair of these for either side of the aisle.
I made a third wreath to hang on our old iron gate as the ceremony backdrop, this time using a pizza box cut into a wreath shape, and forming the paper into roses. (I actually used the rose technique used in cake decorating, but there are also many cool paper flower techniques, including origami, floating around the internets.) Brooklyn pizza saves the day once again! Check it:
Way cheaper than flowers, and you can hang the wreath in your house when you're done.
If you were there and looking closely, you also noticed that the old book pages made it into the boutonnieres (note the feathers, too - our bird theme):
And of course the once we had a library thing going, we couldn't resist using this old card catalog my dad found years ago as a guest book:
Nerdiness abounds, just like our love!
