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Home » DIY » Paper Projects » Wedding Details:: Dessert Table & Decorations

Wedding Details:: Dessert Table & Decorations

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I just want to share a few details from the wedding with you. Several of them I’ve already shared in various forms on the blog.

One of the things I’m most proud of is that I made all the desserts for the wedding! I found an old table at Goodwill and decorated it with a string of handmade glittered letters.

DIY Dessert Table with Glitter Letter StringDIY Dessert Table with Glitter Cake Topper DIY Dessert Table Tiramisu with Chocolate CurlsDIY Dessert Table Tiramisu with S'mores Cupcakes and Glitter Letter String

One of my girlfriends with infinitely more patience than me stayed at our place late one night and decorated all of these beautiful sugar cookies.DIY Dessert Table - Wedding Sugar CookiesI printed our menus out using our home inkjet printer. I bought the fork and spoon stamp and embossed the image. I absolutely love teacups and spent months leading up to the wedding scouring local thrift stores for pretty ones to decorate the tables with. At the last minute, we decided to fill them with flowers we cut from the bush in front of our apartment!Wedding Details - Homemade Menu and Teacup DecorationsWedding Details - Teacup DecorationsOur florals were done by a local florist using flowers most of which were locally grown. We had a teeny-weeny floral budget and I was absolutely blown away by what he did.Wedding Details - Gilded Vases I decorated the vases with one of my favorite craft items – Martha Stewart’s liquid gilding paint. I cut a circle out of cardboard, turned the vase over and used it to delineate the area that needed to be painted. It was a 5 minute DIY that turned my $.60 thrift store vases into something special.Wedding Details - Gilded VasesWedding Details - Gilded Vases

I really wanted to have a “lounge area”. I found this amazing victorian couch on Craigslist for $99. We were able to sell it before we moved so we didn’t lose any money on it. I looked into renting on and they were hundreds of dollars – just to rent! You can’t see it in the photo, but I found a door in someone’s trash and Pat painted it ‘distressed’ looking and we put it on two crates to make a coffee table.Wedding Details - Lounge from Thrift Stores Finds

The gilded disposible plates, gilded cups, and tealights are all DIY’s I’ve already shared on the blogs. Click on the links to be taken to those posts! The huge wine glasses were Pat’s parents are their wedding! The disposable wooden silverware was a bargain buy from Party City.Wedding Details - Rustic Gold and Burlaps DIYs

The homemade napkins were probably one of the most time consuming DIY’s I did. It really took all of my friends, Pat’s mom and even Pat to help to get them done. It turned out to be a massive undertaking to hand sew each napkin and stamp them with our wedding date. I’m so glad I did though! We have a stack of them now and they are an awesome keepsake!Wedding Details - Homemade Hand Stamped NapkinsWedding Details - Homemade Hand Stamped Napkins

Wedding Details - Honey Jar Party Favors

I embossed the place cards and Pat’s mom lettered them. I shared the honey jars, filled with my Dad’s honey, here.Wedding Details - Handmade Place Cards Wedding Details - Handmade Place Cards    Wedding Details - Handmade Place Cards

We had an open bar, so to keep down on costs, we offered local beer and a few wine options and two ‘signature cocktails’. By offering only two drinks, I was able to get away with buying a few handles of liquor instead of many small bottles.Wedding Details - Open Bar on a Budget

Our food was done by Blue Plate Catering. They were absolutely a pleasure to work with. We were very sure we wanted local food to be prominently featured and they created this amazing Farmer’s Market Salad for us. I have a salmon recipe that I absolutely love that my dad has been making for me since I was little. It’s one of my first memories of my childhood, eating that salmon. They recreated the dish perfectly for our wedding day. It was melt-in-your mouth perfect.Wedding Details - Farmer's Market Salad

See more of our wedding photos & DIYs:

DIY Hanging Twine Balls
First Look Wedding Photos, Part I
First Look Wedding Photos, Part II
Wedding Dance Party Photos
Wedding Details – Dessert Table & Table Decorations
Wedding Updo – How to Chalk Your Hair
Wedding Ceremony Pictures
Wedding Getting Ready Pictures
Vintage Drawer Pulls as Placecard Holders DIY
DIY Wedding Photobooth Setup with Printable
DIY Gilded Upcycled Plastic Cups
DIY Glitter Upcycled Silverware
DIY Honey Jar Wedding Favors
Rustic Wedding Cake Frosting Technique
Stuffed S’mores Cupcakes Recipe
DIY Glitter Swizzle Sticks
DIY Embossed Envelopes
Engagement Photos, Part I
Engagement Photos, Part II

More Wedding Photos - First Look, Part II
Wedding :: Dance Party!

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September 20, 2013  â€¢  Filed Under: DIY, Paper Projects, Party Ideas, Wedding, Wedding Inspiration 5 Comments

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  1. Ash-foodfashionparty says

    September 20, 2013 at 10:07 am

    I am in love with so many things in this post. My favorite of all would be the sweets table, the stuff on the table and the table itself, gorgeous.
    A lot of details, wow girl, beautiful. You have to send this article to online magazines.

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  2. fati's recipes says

    September 20, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    I really “envy” the simplicity of your wedding. Our weddings, by culture, are large, fancy, and really overdone in some aspects – which means the bride is dead at the end of the day and can’t move a limb the next morning.
    If it was up to me, I’d cut all that out and just invite ~30 people like you did, and do it all so nicely, too! So happy for you!

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    • Kelly says

      September 28, 2013 at 8:25 am

      Even in America the weddings tend to be large and overdone! It was hard to cap the guest list and exclude aunts, uncles, cousins and such but it was well worth it! When you tell people only 35 people are invited they tend to understand when they don’t make the cut!

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  3. Alli says

    January 21, 2018 at 5:36 pm

    I LOVE the napkins and want to do something similar for my own wedding. Do you have a post on how you made the napkins?

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    • Kelly Egan - A Side of Sweet says

      January 21, 2018 at 10:57 pm

      Hey! I don’t but they were a ton of work – even for our small wedding! That being said I’m really glad we did it and I actually use them whenever we have a nice dinner and it’s such a nice memory. Basically, I bought some off white linen and a serger sewing machine (this one: http://bit.ly/2DpjMO5) to do a nice edge and then folded over about 1/8 inch and did a straight stitch with a regular sewing machine to finish the edge. Then I used fabric paint (http://bit.ly/2DqVnr9) and a heart stamp, plus little custom number stamps (http://bit.ly/2DqDEAa) to do the date. I’m happy to answer any other questions you have. Hope that helps!

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