Wedding Notes: A Pop of Color!

Yet another gathering this past weekend, but this time we started working on element 1 of the table centerpieces. For this element, Charlene decided to include paper flowers made from coffee filters and fabric dye. These will be placed inside a wooden crate for a nice floral arrangement.

The attendees for the first workshop this week was a family affair! Plus our good friend Kristine (who is like family already of course)!

{Love} It seems that lace was the trending theme for today's outfits :)

{Side Note} Our little junior bridesmaid here was SO ready for arts & crafts time :)

Down to the gritty work (just kidding)! We dyed a whole bunch of white coffee filters in blue and yellow. We left the brown coffee filters as is.

Charlene boiled some water, poured it into a tub and then added the blue fabric dye. We all put on our safety gloves (well, safety from getting blue fingers) and took 3-4 pieces of coffee filters, folded them in quarters and then dipped them into the blue water. We let the dye seep in for about 4-5 seconds in the tub and then pulled the coffee filters out. As we pulled it out, we positioned it upright so that the dye could seep in further into the core. We then placed the blue coffee filters on newspaper for the color to set. We did the same steps for the yellow fabric dye.

After about 5 minutes of setting, we carefully separated each layer of the coffee filters and opened them up. We placed them all on top of newspaper (on the floor) let them dry for about an hour.

{Side Note}

The floor was so pretty covered up with these blue and yellow circles!

While the coffee filters were drying, a few of us began to paint glass bottles. Charlene wanted us to only paint them half way up from the bottom. These will be used within element 1 as well.

{Love} We had a little bit of fun while glass bottle painting ;)

[Day 2] 

We continued with the centerpieces for element 1 after our bridal brunch on day 2!

After drying the rest of the coffee filters, we began to create the paper flower arrangements. We cut out the mesh wires to fit into the wooden crates. As we did this, we tried to mold the wire to create volume and height. Once the wire was secured inside the crate, we then added the brown and dyed coffee filters by wrapping it around sections of the mesh wire. For the paper flower, we twined floral wire around the base of each florette (3-4 pieces of filter paper folded together).

We were able to finish two crates today! This was so much fun! I wanted to do more but people were starting to get hungry so... hahaha! You know me...once I get something started, I want to just go go go until they're done :)

{LOVE. LOve. Love.}