Wedding DIY's Take Two

Hi to all who have been wondering what the heck Robin has been up too?
I've been up to a lot including my youngest daughter Mallory's wedding on Nov 21, 2021 and a new baby in the family with my eldest Katie Dec 1. 2021 and oh yah Christmas 2021!
I thought today it would be nice to share some pictures of some Wedding DIY's .
Mallory, Katie, friends, family & myself worked hard on Michael & Mallory's wedding day to make it special.  I'll share pics below with commentary below the pics. 
Some background information Mallory was to be married in May of 2020 & then Covid 19 shut us all down in March of 2020.  Mallory & Michael were finally able to have their long awaited wedding Nov 21, 2022 after cancelling 3 dates... a heart breaking experience to put it mildly however everyone is safe & healthy so that is what is important.
Below is a bridal purse I made for Mallory for her first shower held at the home of the Casey's ( the grooms parents in the fall of 2019). Hosted by Michael's mom Susan & sisters of the groom Alison & Lauren.

A purse I made for Mallory's bridal shower in the fall of 2019 when we thought her wedding would happen in May of 2020- featured as the "date night clutch" @ QUILTSocial.com

  In case you are interested in the pattern, the above purse pattern featured here
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 Once we FINALLY got a confirmed date of Nov 21, 2021..... we decided to have a couples "I DO BBQ" shower hosted by Mallory's sister & maid of honour Katie in September.  We served popcorn & veggie appetizers , racks of ribs, corn on the cob, mac & cheese, salads , fruit & cookies to keep it casual, comforting & family friendly.
​ Some decor DIY's will be shown below:

I do BBQ banner hung up on a white dining tent , made with the help of enlarged word font, scrapbooking paper, scissors, jute & a creative mindset.

I do BBQ banner hung on the dining tent. Thank goodness for the tent it rained!

Welcome sign made with cut out letters from word (enlarged) a wooden plaque, scrappbooking paper, poster board, glue & Dollar Store flowers

Flowers made from glued & cut lunch bags, a pinterest idea made by Katie (brides sister)

Center piece with message sticks & pumpkin decor for the food table. moved into the garage due to rain. It did look lovely in the sun for a moment

Sugar cookies & chocolate covered strawberries made by yours truly :)

Takeaway & Thank You gift bags with labels indicating content

Bone Dust BBQ Spice (made by yours truly) & Kansas BBQ Sauce (made by Katie) - We filled all the guests takeaway (thank you bags) with these 2 jars.

FINALLY onto the wedding.....
​Mallory did not want a limited combination of colours for her wedding, as an artist she wanted an all colour wedding.  She wanted all coloured flowers, all coloured napkins & some of her art featured.  We started to work on the Napkins in 2019 because at that time we figured on 140 guests and 140 napkins.  Mallory chose K Fassett fabric for the napkins and we decided to serge them all with a rolled hem.  Lots of cutting, serging, ironing & folding insued.

A small sampling of the actual rolled hem napkins, K Fassett's gorgeous vibrant colours

A "mock up" or practise table setting without stem ware

Caveat... I wish I took more pictures of the whole room to see these gorgeous napkins, but a wedding day is so busy & such a beautiful blurr, so we have to settle with what we got until the professional photos come in.

Actual table with stemware & the gorgeous DIY K Fassett Napkins

Flowers... as you can see in the image above, Mallory decided on a plethora of flowers for the table & personally collected along with family & friends,  a whole bunch of small bud vases.  Most of the vases came from donations & thrift shopping.

Mallory cleaning & organizing the beginning of over 120 bud vases to hold over 135 stems.

The flowers looked so fresh & romantic! ....Decor courtesy of S. Casey, R & R Bogaert & C. Hillier

Mallory's bouquet was lush & colourful just like she wanted it to be.

Bridesmaid "Tussie Mussies" another kaleidoscope of colour

 Signage....  As artist's Mike & Mal wanted to have little easels on each table as a placeholder.  Mike & Mal designed & painted these mini paintings & had a chart printed for the welcome area showing pictures of the placeholder paintings. This was a unique & artistic method for guests to find their table. Each little graphic has meaning to Mike & Mal & are symbols of significance in their &/or their guests lives.

Chart showing artist paintings & guest lists per table

My little easel & painting at my table was a thimble ( I wonder why? lol)

Welcome sign painted by Mallory - It matched their invitation!

The wedding invitation was designed by Mike & Mal to show multicolours & depict the invitation of artists

As a little personal embroidery touch & a way to dress up the "sweetheart table" for Mike & Mal, I machine embroidered a Mr & Mrs sign for the back of their chairs & also embroidered a Mr & Mrs established sign for their table.

Mr & Mrs sign embroidered and tied with sheer ribbon to the back of the bride & grooms chair.

Sweets....  Mallory & Mike had asked 2 years ago if I would make their wedding cake.  I pretty much had design license with it.  So I decided on 3 layers - chocolate expresso marble bottom tier, raspberry vanilla middle tier & a  salted caramel top tier.  The bottom was coloured burgundy like Michael's suit with brushes of gold, the middle tier was a fault line cake with edges of gold & multicolour buttercream  flowers in the gap/fault & the top tier was stippled with buttercream & had some buttercream flowers piped where the hexagon plexi topper poked into the cake centre.  I scattered some pearl dragees & gold hearts on the cake for a little more embellishment & meaning.

Mike & Mal's Wedding Cake

As a little extra something special, I made sugar cookies in vanilla & chocolate very much like their wedding invitation with white & gold lettering showing "at last, "Love", "M & M 11.21.21", "Mr & Mrs" "We Do" etc.  I was thinking since we could not invite children to the wedding, guests were encouraged to takesome home as gifts for their little people.

Finished Sugar Cookies

Art.... Mal decided to showcase 3 modern abstract paintings at the wedding to give the wedding some context as to who the wedding was for.   In my (probably biased) opinion, two very talented artists. These are now part of the Bogaert family permanent art collection.

Hair & Makeup.... we kept it all in the family again & hair & makeup was done by our beautiful cousins Jenny & Tiffany.  Mallory, Katie, Alison, Susan & myself all felt very beautiful heading out to this long awaited family wedding. I don't have too many pictures yet. Mallory is pictured below & looks gorgeous!

Mallory on her wedding day pictured at home before the ceremony.

 The Quilt... I only have two daughters & in 2017 my eldest daughter got married, the link to those DIY's is here
Of course a quilt is a wedding gift especially for my own children .  Mike & Mal's wedding quilt is pictured below.  I have named it "Painters Pallette" as the entire colour wheel in solid cotton is encorporated in it.
It is entirely paper pieced and it was bar none, the most difficult quilt I have completed to date, it turned out great but was a significant challenge.  I also quilted it on my long arm machine.

Painters Palette Quilt made for Michael Casey & Mallory Bogaert on their wedding day.

The label on the Painters Palette Quilt

Heartfelt congratulations go too... Mr & Mrs Michael Casey & Mallory Bogaert!  We love you so much.

I will update this blog post as more photos become available but this is it for now , phew!
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Very Special Thanks to: Mr & Mrs Casey (the grooms parents), Bridesmaids: Katie, Lauren, Alison, Alexa, Myranda, Kristina, Makenzie, Cameron's Flowers Kitchener, Darryl P. MC, Jennifer B & Tiffany P (hair & makeup), Mallory & Michael of course, The Cambridge Mill, C. Hillier, S. Casey, R. Bogaert (Decor) to friends & family who donated, collected stuff for us & attended the showers & the wedding!  You showered Michael & Mallory with your love. It takes a village and you made this day sensational ❤️ Love to all!