Making these Bachelorette Selfie Photo Booth Props is easy to do, here’s how!

Start by picking some firm cardstock as your base, you can use paper as an accent to your props, but the base should be strong enough to stand without curving.  Once you’ve picked your colours, draw your shapes onto it and cut them out.  Glue any overlapping pieces, for example the sparkly “martini” in the martini glass.  Add any embellishments such as washi tape, gems or stickers.  Once all glue is dry, use tape to attach the stick to the prop.  

Your #selfie’s will be memorable and hilarious with these photo props!  They will definitely lasting memories.  There’s many more options then what you see here and when you make them yourself you’re sure to have enough for everyone.  

If you love these photo props, check out our DIY Photo Props for photo booths at wedding, birthdays and more.  

 

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These scones taste great with the glaze on top, but you can certainly serve them with much more.  Fresh fruit or compotes, lemon curd, clotted or whipped cream or simply powdered sugar are all perfect options.

To reheat a scone you could put them in the over at 300F for about 5-10 min or place them right into the microwave.

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Soft and Sweet Lemon Scone Cookies

Perfect for breakfast and dessert. No trips to the bakery, simple ingredients makes for easy baking!

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 8 Scones

Ingredients

• 2 cups All-purpose flour
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tbsp Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 6 tbsp Cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
• 1 box (99g) Instant lemon pudding mix
• 1/2 cup Cream
• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract

Glaze

• 1 cup Icing sugar
• 1 tbsp Milk
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract Clear extract works best

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 425.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
• Add cut up butter and cut into the flour mix with a pastry blender or two knives until the butter is mixed in and the mixture is crumbly.
• Stir in the pudding mix.
• Pour the cream into a small bowl. Add the egg and vanilla, whisk to combine.
• Make a hole into the centre of the dry ingredients and add the cream mixture. Stir until just combined.
• Turn the dough out onto the counter and knead it a few times until the mix is smooth. Cut the dough in half. Form each half into a circle that's about 1/2" thick. Slice each circle into four wedges.
• Place the scones onto the cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes. Cool completely before baking.

Glaze

• Whisk together all the ingredients. Spread onto the scones.

Enjoy! Pro Tip: You can make these scones any flavour you like by switching out the pudding mix – pistachio, strawberry or orange are all great options.

We hope you liked this lemon scone cookies recipe as much as we do!  If you’re looking for a dinner to complement these cookies certainly take a look at The Ultimate Summer Dinner Recipe Ideas .

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DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars

• Mini bottles
• Washi tape (or any other decoration)
• Small candies (I recommend using small jelly candies)

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Get Ready to Make These Awesome, Easy Favours!!

One of the tasks was to go into the candy store separately and try to guess what each other would buy. When we met later that day we both pulled out our choices… and they matched! Out of all of the choices in that store, we both picked a Flake bar. We attached small tags with this story attached to our favour boxes so we could include our guests in the story.

The challenge with choosing an unconventional favour is that they do not always fit into the ready made boxes you can buy. This problem can be solved with DIY. Christine and I made 200 of these little boxes to give out to our guests. I suggest using a card-stock scrapbook paper, its both cost effective, comes in countless colours and patters and is strong enough to hold the favours. Finish the boxes with ribbons and custom made tags.

Our custom tag we used to tell the story of our Flake Bar favour

The template I have attached is the one that I created to fit a Flake chocolate bar. You can use this template as a guide to fit your favour by measuring each side of the item you are gifting.

DIY Favour Boxes

Materials:

– Card-stock scrapbook paper
– Template – get it here 
– Scissors
– A ruler
– Pencil
– Scrapbook glue

If your favour does not fit into the template (template measures 8″ x 1″), measure it and adjust the template to fit. 

Cut out your template and trace it onto the ‘wrong’ side of your card-stock. Cut out the box shape.

Fold the paper on all of the fold lines (a bone tool can help to make sharp creases).

Glue the side tabs together to make the box.

Let dry and decorate! Get your friends and family together to make short work of this wedding task, and have fun!

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Christmas or new years DIY Wedding centrepiece

What You’ll Need:

• Small shatterproof ornaments (no bigger than 2”)
• Styrofoam ball
• Candle holder for a base
• Small beads or glass marbles
• Knife
• Low temp hot glue gun and sticks

Firstly, cut the bottom of the Styrofoam ball so that it has a flat edge that will sit on the candle holder base. Remove the hanger pieces from the tops of the ornaments.

Secondly, begin pushing an ornament into the top of the Styrofoam ball. The top ‘bump’ should push into the Styrofoam. Add some glue to hold it in place.

Continue adding ornaments around the first one you placed. Keep them as tight together as possible to avoid large gaps.

Use some glue to attach the Styrofoam ball to the candle holder.

Finally, add the smaller beads or marbles into the gaps between the ornaments. Use some glue to hold in place.

Voila! One centrepiece down…probably a bunch more to go. But some good people and good wine will help you along. Hi Ho, Hi Ho, off to work you go! ?

We hope you liked this Christmas or New Years DIY Wedding Centrepiece as much as we do!   Looking for more DIY wedding crafts?  Certainly check out our DIY Favour Boxes or Unique Wedding Gift, Year of Firsts .

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Today is Mr. M and my fifth wedding anniversary. (The photo above is us 5 years ago. Photo Credit: Banga Photography) We will be celebrating tonight and being in a romantic mood, I thought I would put together a collection of quotes about love and marriage. Hope you enjoy this heartwarming tribute to wedded bliss!

1. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. Paul Sweeney

2. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret

3. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther

4. Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate. Barbara Hershey

5. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin

6. An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person. Zoe Foster Blake

7. I love being my husband’s wife. Julianna Margulies

8. In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Caroline Kennedy

9. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. William O. Douglas

10. I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything. Aaron Spelling

11. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Boris Pasternak

Feeling the love? There’s more…

12. We concentrate so much on anniversaries and birthdays that you forget it’s the Tuesday that’s tough that really counts. Sometimes she just needs some flowers or even just that ear. It’s the little things that count. It’s the regular days of the year that you have to keep your attention on her. BJ the Chicago Kid

    

13. Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. Todd Tiahrt

14. That there’s no more important decision in life than who you marry. Brad Paisley

15. My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime. Teri Polo

16. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly. Peter De Vries

17. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill

18. Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day. Barbara De Angelis

19. Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. James Dobson

20. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer

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Luckily Mr. M saved the day (that’s my hubby for those who don’t follow us regularly) and suggested a basket full of wine, one for a different ‘first’ the couple will have as husband and wife. I’ll admit it… I wasn’t convinced at first. Our friends are not big wine drinkers, and what exactly would this gift look like? I checked it out online and found that a few companies do make labels for this unique gift; Wine Milestone Labels. I still wasn’t sold; seven bottles in one year for people who don’t drink wine regularly seemed like a lot. But as I was reading the wine labels I noticed one that said ‘first fight’. Eureka!! They may not exclusively drink wine but they do drink cocktails and beer.  So instead of just giving wine, we picked out seven different types of liquor!

The seven bottles we picked were:

• Vodka for ‘First Fight’  
• Bailey’s Irish Cream for ‘First Christmas’
• Rose Wine for ‘First Valentine’s Day’
• Large bottle of Craft Beer for ‘First BBQ’
• German Wine for ‘First Day Back from the Honeymoon’  (their Honeymoon was a European Tour)
• Prosecco for ‘First Anniversary’
• Champagne for ‘Wedding Night’ (this was the only bottle we brought to the wedding to give them that night. The rest of the bottles we dropped off to their home for convenience)

The labels are easy to make. Design a label on your computer. I added and yellow flower because it matched their wedding colours. Feel free to use my design for inspiration and just change the names, dates and colours. Print the labels on sticky back label paper and attach to the bottles.

Stack all the bottles in a sturdy basket or box, maybe try using a small wine holder and the couple can always reuse it after all the bottles are empty. Use basket gift shreds to cushion the bottles and wrap the whole gift in plastic wrap or tulle.

I’m really happy with how this gift turned out. It’s personal and unique and will hopefully bring the new husband and wife happy reminders of their wedding day all year long. For more wedding ideas and inspirations check out our Perfectly Rustic Ring Bearer Pumpkin, Sweet and Modern Flower Girl Terrarium and the Top 11 Wedding Trends of 2017.

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The dress code was upscale and extravagant; with hats taking center stage. One of the most important aspects of dressing for the races is the hats and fascinators. And for crafters this is a fantastic opportunity to bring out the hot glue! You can use just about anything to make one, it’s the perfect time to use up any extra feathers, buttons, beads, and ribbons. Of course, fascinators are for more than horse races. Weddings are perfect for these beautiful hats too. So lets Head off to the Races and make a Derby Fascinator.

What You’ll Need:

• Thin cardboard
• Mesh ribbon
• Large silk flower
• Feathers
• Hair clip
• Hot glue gun and sticks
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Circle to trace

Trace a circle onto a piece of cardboard, I used an empty cereal box and a bowl turned upside down to make the circle.

Cut out the circle. Cut a slit in the circle, only halfway in. Use hot glue to attach the two sides of the slit to create a small cone shape.

Cut a large strip of the mesh ribbon and use hot glue to attach it to the cone. Push the ribbon up into small waves while attaching it to create shape and dimension. I used two strips. This will create the base of the fascinator.

Add the silk flower on top of the mesh ribbon. Its best to remove the plastic stem and then attach the petals in layers so that the flower will lay flatter on the hat.

After the flower looks how you want it, start gluing the feathers into place. Keep in mind which side will be the front so that the feathers lay in a flattering direction and don’t fall into your face.

Turn the fascinator over and glue the hair clip into the cardboard cone.

You can continue to add any other accessories you like to match your outfit. There are unlimited options for fascinators – Hobbycraft has another great tutorial you might want to check out.

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One of the most endearing sights in a wedding procession is when a flower girl scatters her petals down the aisle. With a terrarium, not only can you arrange tiny succulents inside, you can also add flower petals to be sprinkled before the bride. Sadly, I don’t know anyone getting married in the next little while (sad because I love weddings!) so our little niece Tali sweetly stood in as our flower girl.

What You’ll Need:

• A hanging terrarium glass
• Lace or ribbon
• Succulents
• Floral filler – pearls, beads, crystals (or soil for real succulents)
• E600 or other strong glue
• Flower petals

Add a piece of lace or ribbon for the flower girl to hold the terrarium with. This is a fantastic place to add your wedding colours into the design.

Add your floral filler into the terrarium and use some glue to hold everything in place.

Arrange your succulents in the terrarium and glue into place. When the petals are added for the flower girl to scatter, everything else should be glued in so that only the petals end up on the floor.

On the big day, add the petals to the ball for the flower girl to scatter down the aisle.

Whether its for your big day or someone you care about, we hope this project helps to create beautiful memories. For more wedding ideas check out Christine’s Top Eleven Wedding Trends of 2017

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Photo booths are usually a hit at most weddings.  Whether you are hosting many or having an intimate affair, a photo booth will put a smile on almost every guest.  Most photo booth rentals offer instant prints of each picture allowing your guest to take a memory home, or paste them in an album to serve as your signing book.  Having a lengthy cocktail hour?  A photo booth can help your guests fill that time with some fun.  But don’t stop there, keep the booth going all night as some guests may need to warm up to the idea!    

Now that you’ve decided a photo booth is for you, lets see how to make some Photo Booth Props to match your wedding’s theme, feel and colours.  

DIY Photo Booth Props

What you’ll need:

• Wooden plaques
• Acrylic paint (colours that correspond with your wedding)
• Paint brushes
• Stencils (optional)

Step 1.
Paint the entire wooden plaque with a base colour.  Set aside to dry between each coat, at least two coats will be needed.  Paint the trim a separate colour if wanted to give it some ‘pop’.

Step 2.
Take your stencil (or free hand it if you’d like!) to create words and phrases you’d like to see in some pictures.  Paint over the stencil.  Use contrasting colours, generally speaking black letters will work best on bright colours and white lettering will work best for dark coloured backgrounds.

That’s all that is required in making these awesome Photo Booth Props.  Use your own words or use the ones we have shown here.  If you are shopping at your local craft store for the wooden plaques, take a look for large wooden letters or words that could also work for fun props. 

Weddings are fun for all who attend, especially if there are some fun activities.  Take a look at these Top 11 Wedding Trends of 2017 for more inspiration for your upcoming day! If your planning a shower, take a look at our fun and memorable Bridal Shower Advice and Keepsake Game.

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