OT: Wedding Toasting Flutes

I bought crystal flutes to match our crystal dinnerware, and then used wire and wrapped them with pearls and flowers...and ribbons...

Still have em'! (had em etched with our names, and date, too...I was uberbride!)

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

, I cannot find a crafts page on how to make your own wedding toast flutes. I have tried "do it yourself", "wedding budget", etc...ARGH!>

Hmm - well most of the "wedding flutes" are just plain glass - often engraved for the couple.... what is it you want to "make" exactly? Decorations for them?

Well - first - find and pick the shape/style flute you want to use.. Then - just cruise the internet until you find some you like... I would think it doesn't take a lot of "instructions" to wire a few flowers and beads to a stem..... just make it "look like" the ones you like (and they charge a fortune for on the wedding sites! yikes!)

Personally - -I think just a small spray fresh flowers matching your wedding attached to the stem, with ribbons hanging down in your wedding colors, would be quite nice.....

I know that may not have been much help... but I don't think you will find many "instructions" - along those lines... wing it girl... you're creative!

Cheryl DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

Thanks! Just uber-nervous, I guess!!! ;-)

Just less than 3 weeks! :-)

Mary

My daughter did this for her wedding, instead of a guest book - and over my objections - and NO ONE, knew what to do. So, only the very very few people who'd read the same article she read wrote a note and put it in the basket. She has maybe ??10 notes out of nearly two hundred people who would've signed a guest book, had one been available!

-- MizKrysti

At this point, keep the guest book.

Remember KISS.

Tina

Mary -

You *do* realize that you aren't going to remember Jack Sh*t about that day, right? Coming from a new bride, it's true. Everyone tells me I had a lovely service. I only recall bits and pieces. :-)

Kiss your new husband. Kiss your attendants. Kiss your new in-laws (if they are the kissable types). Kiss your parents. Kiss your friends. KISS EVERYONE!!

:-)

That's why you have to do the "Serene bride" thing. I regularly, throughout the day, took a moment to say to myself "record this...it will be your only wedding day!!!"...and I'd file away the memory. I remember the whole day, including the standing on the toilet in the bride's room to see my dh outside in his studly tuxedo....and the way he grabbed me for a HUGE kiss-the-bride kiss and SCHMEARED my lipstick all over creation!!!!! (I hardly ever wear lipstick, and he wasn't missing this kiss for anything!!)

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

So where was this advice back in March? ;-)

Dang, back in March I was being support team to the same dh as he prepped for an took the bar exam! NEXT time, I'll be here for ya! LOL

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Oh no! This was the "next time" - and I made sure I did it right. Unlike my stupid decision back on December 6, 1974. Geez, where the hell was my brain that day??

Be gentle with yourself, good friend! On December 6th, 1974 you were creating the wonderful, wise woman you are today. My dh has been married before me, and says that it was all part of finding "the long way home"!!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Very true! We all have "Brain Farts" We learn, we grow, we become who we are. I suppose the bigger "brain fart" would be if you were still in that old marrige...

.Stephanie.

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Actually I was thinking of the acronym. Keep It Simple. But heck, might as well kiss everyone while you're at it.

Tina

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "JoAnn Paules" :

]You *do* realize that you aren't going to remember Jack Sh*t about that day, ]right? Coming from a new bride, it's true. Everyone tells me I had a lovely ]service. I only recall bits and pieces. :-)

seconded. in my case, it's probably a good thing i don't remember. but it's true. if i didn't have pictures, i wouldn't remember anything at all except Jamie getting caught with her heels off and a bit about David's uncle!

I've convinced myself that Carman (the ex from hell) was part of the price I had to pay to earn Keith (the love of my life).

Honestly, I'm not sure I'd be alive. I believe his violence would have escalated past the point of a few bruises and a bloody nose.

Exactly. And everyone kisses the bride. (My white suit ended up with just a little smudge of pick on the right shoulder.)

(I knew what you meant but I remember all of the women who kissed me after my vows. And most of all I remember the kiss that sealed the deal with my husband. What memories I have of that eveniong always make me smile.)

Thank you, everyone, for sharing your wedding memories! I really appreciate it! It's fun reading this.

I am 37 years old. I have been to one wedding, which was the day (or 2 days) after my graduation. I was also the server at a couple of receptions...but have not *seen* weddings, except for on TV...and no, I am

Well, back to making favors...got them down, so they are going quick (spoons, 2 kisses, one tulle circle, one sign, one favor ribbon. I *might* hotglue ribbon roses to them later...if I have the time. Otherwise, they are done! (here's a spoonful of kisses from the Mr. and the Mrs.)

Mary