DIY Your Way Through!!

Last Decade has shown me evolution of Destination weddings in India, from family planned and executed to professionally curated and styled Weddings. Unheard Destinations, New trends, Fashion, Jewellery, Hashtags, Media coverage and the never ending expectations. These weddings though bring a lot of ease and comfort along with value for money , however they miss one element – Personal Touches…

From the home made Mathri and Toshas in Punjabi weddings to Hand crafted gifts for bridesmaids. Mehendi was a ceremony of building bond and Haldi was purification ( it still symbolises the same). However the commercialization of Weddings does not stop us from adding those personal touches, we go an extra mile to understand the bride and groom and their families and spend a bit of extra time and but of extra effort and creativity to let them relive their moments of growing up.

We’ve got you some insight that will help you through the course of going the DIY way!

There is a lot do as a bride to be. Shuttling between your full time job, getting your wedding preparations done and your social obligations may not leave you the time to get crafty. However, taking the DIY décor route at your wedding does not necessarily mean you spend long laborious hours of engagement with the tapes, scissors, glue guns and fabric. 

While you pick your event planner, you could rope in a company that will be open to custom make DIY décor. Getting your event planner to do it also means they bring in just the right amount of creative inspiration and artistic expertise you need to add finesse to the décor and to avoid ending up with décor that looks more like elementary school craft projects.

Well afcourse if you wish to get your hands dirty with some paint and glue alongside your bridesmaid or groomsmen you could definitely take up one project to work on as a team that is less imposing and can be pulled off with ease! (Its fun adding personal touches to your décor and it also give you quality time with your favourite folk before the wedding)

DIY reflects your personality

Your wedding is about you and your groom! DIY weddings are a great way to show off your personality and are contrary to the idea of picking up a pre designed theme or readily available décor and incorporating it at your events. Whether you’re a glam diva or geek and chic creating a wedding that is the definition of everything you love will make your day even more special.

Most great DIY elements stem from everyday things such your favourite book, movie, your first date, or just what the two of you love together as a couple.

Spend time with your event planner to design your décor and themes and help them understand your personalities, so the team is better equipped to DIY décor that is more you and less routine.

Why you need an event planner to help?

Planning a wedding brings in a whole lot of stress, topping it up with extra work will only add to the stress and leave you with pre wedding jitters. If you have never crafted anything before, customizing and rolling out invites, designing the centerpieces, wedding favours and other elements on a time crunch could be rather overwhelming, moreover if you do not  have a team to back you up.

Going head on with too many things can get extremely awry and may leave you regretting your DIY idea.

Also bear in mind that everything you make may not always turn out to resemble the image in your mind or the one you downloaded from pinterest and can not only lead to disappointment, but also lead to waste of the time and money  which is not the ideal situation to be in prior to your wedding. Hence having your event planner do it for you lets you have fantastic DIY décor only minus the stress!

Before you confirm your DIY Designs!

Before you choose the DIY projects you want to include in your wedding décor you have to consider the venue chosen and confirm the do’s and don’ts with the management. You do not want the décor made, to never end up being hung or used.  Some spaces are simply beautiful and may need just a few touches to further accentuate and prep the venue for the event. Also note that DIY projects may not always be cost effective and some projects may require a whole lot of raw material and skilled labour to put together.

Considering these factors ahead of time will help you scan through the options available on pinterest and instagram with ease and know exactly what you need.

You could choose to have one whole event that screams DIY or have some elements at each event that are custom made with DIY touches. Striking the perfect balance between what to DIY and what NOT TO DIY is key!

 See some of the DIY created by us to see that extra inch of happiness on a bride or Groom’s face 

Photo Booth

Add a photo corner to the wedding with child hood pictures of the couple and the families, and let them relive those little / cute/ emotional moments. Or also pick up elements from your store room that were once part of a birthday party or were created by your girls to give you a surprise .

 This bride – Seshmitha wanted us to use the XOXO Created by her girls for one of her birthday parties at the wedding. And we made a photo booth out of it!

Since the couple had met over exchanging books

To make the presence of the books felt, 100’s of paper flowers adorned a tree in the center of the reception venue serving as a photo booth.

 Centerpieces

 Chennai Girl, Living in London misses her “ Goli" Soda Bottles and seeing women wearing the typical Checkered Chennai saree to beaches in the evening – we converted the  saree to a table runner and bottles to centerpieces for Typical Authentic South Indian Breakfast.

 These Book center pieces were for a couple whose story started over exchanging books and that how they fell in love. As cute as it may sound, including their love story into their wedding with old Leather covered books as a part of the center pieces.

The rope around the books signified a bond and post the wedding the books were donated to various orphanages and libraries.

Cake Toppers

Helena and Amit, wanted to make their wedding cake special and wanted to take back a piece of India for their Reception in Spain, we created this Edible wedding Cake Topper for them, with a shelf life 6 months, which they reused in their reception in Spain after getting married in Udaipur.

Have you been obsessed with Minions too ?  Is quirk your thing ?

This was a risk we took and it came out as the most beautiful surprise, the Telugu Bride marrying a Sikh Guy, loved the minion and wanted it incorporated somewhere, we gave the minion a name and got it a turban.