My nana and I went shopping earlier and while we were at a crafting store she found spools of peach and mint ribbons and wound up buying several. She says she feels silly but says if my dad and his woman don’t use them I could have them.
I don’t want my nana to feel silly so what could we do with the ribbons?
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idk around the door ? or somethang!!
put them on gifts
on the front back middle section of the car, where your vows are gonna be..
you can make bows and drape material along side of the tables and pin the bows. or you can make them curly and hang them from the ceiling somewhere.
bows around:
chair backs
ponytails
wedding favors
car
doorway
If there’s a trellis or something you could wind it in that.
craft them into bows, maybe incorporate flowers into the bows and put them t the ends of the pews or chairs maybe
if you have a DJ at the wedding, you could tie them in bows and hang them around the table. ot time them on the chairs at the reception.
maybe add flowers to them and use them to decorate the isle leading to the alter
There are plenty of things you can use ribbon for. You can make bows to put at the ends of the alters, or to tie around table decorations, or flower girl baskets. You can tie them around chairs. You can even use them on your invitations.
I got married in August. We used ribbon on our invitations, I hole punched the tops of them and thread the ribbon through and tied a bow. We also had a bottle of champagne on each table, which had a blue and white ribbon bow on each bottle. We had some ribbon hanging from the ceiling of our white tent to help spiff it up some.
There are plenty of craft ideas.
This site has a whole list, not just for ribbon but in general.
after the priest says i now pronounce you husband and wife…get someone to pull some kind of strings and it rains ribbons on the audience..idk?!
You could use them in a variety of ways.
1) for the flower girls, instead of having a white ribbon that ties around their waist, you could replace the white ribbon with peach and/or mint;
2); you could wrap the ribbon around the handle of the flower girl’s basket. That way it will be a little more colorful in the photos;
3), you could tie your hair back with a nice ribbon and that way you kinda sorta match their wedding colors;
4) you could pin a border of ribbon along the top edge of the head table or the gift table; or
5) you could create large fancy bows and have them on the outer edge of the seats where the wedding aisle is.
BTW, I am proud that you are trying to make the best of this and are offering helpful ideas to your Nana and trying to figure out how to be friendly to the military personnel at the wedding. You are going to make your dad and grandparents very proud. You rock!!!
you could put them on the pew’s in the church. Depending on the size. Or you could decorate the cake table.
Cool…….tie them to the ends of helium balloons…make the ribbons long and use them as part of the table decor….they will have to weighted at the ends somehow so they don’t float away…..
I was thinking of a Wishing Well where guests could write wishes for the new couple and pop them in the well..the well could have a sign saying Sweet Wishes for the Bride & Groom…..or, remember the shoe box ‘mailbox’ kids make in grammer school for their Valentine’s Day Cards? One made with bridal wrapping paper, bits of white lace and some of that ribbon could be used instead of a wishing well if making a small tabletop one is not possible (they are easy to make)
Find small note paper like post ems and pencils…the pencils can be tied with the ribbon if it’s narrow enough and the guests can keep the pencil (who can’t use a pencil)?
The ribbon can also be used to decorate the chairs the bride & groom will be seated in to ‘reserve them. They can be wrapped several times and knotted around the stems of the bridal bouquet if the bride is using a long stemmed bundle…..if she wears a hair piece of flowers they can be cascaded down the back and against the tulle of the veil will look pretty….if I think of anything else I’ll add it.
Feeling a bit sneaky????? Wanna have fun? During the reception can you (with some help) sneak away to the bridal get away car & decorate it?….here are some things you can do…..
1) Fill the entire interior of the car with balloons…the kind you blow up yourself….stuff ‘em in good so when the door opens…..
2) start saving tin cans & soda bottles/cans-have your grandpa punch a whole in each and thread some of that ribbon through…then tie several to the back car bumper like streamers……decorate the antennae with a few soda bottles & ribbon….
With washable paint on the back window write just married….and wrap the entire car in saran wrap…they’ll hafta cut through it to get inside…..
you could use the ribbon to tie around the nosegays/bouquets
one neat use for them is to find heart shaped Styrofoam and with strips of ribbon cover it…the ends will be raw but you just trim these off and then finish the top end of the heart..then decorate with flowers and additional bows etc and hang these from the ceiling of the hall or the tent you are using…you could buy some really inexpensive frames at the dollar store..different shapes and sizes, spray paint them all to match if you want to then use eye hooks and screw them into the top of each frame and then string the frames on the ribbon tying a knot on either side of the eye hook to prevent them from sliding…I attended a wedding where they did this and strung it up behind the cake table on the wall…it had photos of both the bride and groom as kids..and then the two of them together…leading up to a easel with their engagement photo..
you could use the ribbon to tie off favor bags…to designate the wedding party table and family tables at the reception…one really cool option I’ve seen at a wedding was going to the dollar/discount store and purchase a variety of cheap toys…(nothing that makes noise!) for the kids to choose from at the reception…I recommend the activity books and crayons etc mini puzzles and board games…keep the items to choose from small and for added fun for the kids bag them up in little waxed bags and tie them off with the ribbon…green for boys peach for girls and let them grab bag their favors…they can have there’s during the reception and have a little area cornered off for the kids to go to to play have some books and quiet games there that can occupy them in case they get bored as most children do at these events…you could simply use these ribbons here and there as just a little touch…or you can totally incorporate them in the total decor of your reception…there are so many possibilities…I could go on but I think you got the idea???
Congratulations to you!