On July 3rd, Mr. Marfinkle and I were married at Chester's at Bell Tower Square in Lawrence, MA. As part of our wedding preparation, we decided that we would really like a wedding which reflected our personalities and interests. As such, we decided to personally design and create several of the components of our wedding ceremony and reception. Here are just a few of our favorite items
Made by Marfinkle:
Our wedding program. I used Aviary's online creative suite to design the program and had the materials printed at Staples. Since our wedding theme included trees, I used a stock image I found online to create the front of the program.
We designed our wedding in collaboration with our cake bakers at Danish Pastry House in Medford, MA. We chose a lemon-raspberry cake with a buttercream frosting and it tasted amazing. In addition to carving our initials into the cake (in homage to our wedding invitation), our cake designer was able to create a faux birch design around the cake by burning strips of marzipan into a wood grain pattern. These were finished with wrapped twine, fresh hydrangea (my bouquet flowers), and natural stems. The whole cake was then topped with a wooden nest and two heart-shaped stones, purchased for approximately $7 at Michael's.
I baked the challah for our wedding using my favorite challah recipe from allrecipes.com. In the Jewish tradition, baking this special bread becomes part of a woman's duties once she enters into marriage. Although I don't care for the gender roles in traditional Judaism, I thought it would be nice to bake this challah to share with Mr. Marfinkle on our big day.
Our centerpieces were complimented by handmade table numbers. I created these double-sided number tents with the following materials:
- dark gray card stock
- several sheets of scrapbook paper featuring an antique postcard pattern
- gluesticks
- a large wood-grain print rubber stamp block
- black plum-colored acrylic paint and a paintbrush
After layering the scrapbook paper on top of the card stock, I stamped each side with the wood-grain stamp block and then hand painted table numbers in a plum color so that they would really pop. The result was a rustic-looking homemade set of table numbers which cost about $30.
After falling in love with a $125 sash for my wedding gown, I unsuccessfully tried to find a similar sash online. Rather than giving and buying the sash, however, I decided to save myself the money and make my own.
Materials:
- an assortment of translucent, transparent, and pearl-tinted seed and rocaille beads
- fabric glue
- 1.5" wide ivory ribbon
Gluing the beads on in smaller sections, I was able to create my sash for less than $30! I was lucky that my seamstress was able to attach the sash, however, since it turned out incredibly stiff due to the glue.
For our wedding favors, we chose plantable seeded paper. When planted, the favors actually sprout into a variety of wildflowers. We customized our favors at www.ecofriendlyfavors.com.
All photos courtesy of Boro: Creative Visions.
Maybe you should note that the small boy sharing the challah with you is not, in fact, Mr. Marfinkle
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