First Wedding Tutorial-Will you be my?

Get excited!!! This is my first of many wedding tutorials I will be posting as I craft different things for my big day!!

This is an invitation way to ask your maids to be in your big day with you. I got the idea for this from watching a video on I believe theknot.com, but I cannot find it anymore or I would give credit where it is due.

This is how I asked my Maids of Honor and Bridesmaids to be in my wedding (I am having two Maids of Honor).

I first made 4 signs out of heavy duty cardstock. One that said Will You, the next Be My, the third Bridesmaid, and the last Maid of Honor. I am not posting the how-to on this part, but I am posting a picture so you can see them a little closer. If I had time and was ok with spending more money on paper I would have re-done this with the letters being smaller so I would have had more pictures.

The next thing that I did was take pictures with all of these signs. I decided to take these pictures outside and at different locations that I thought was fun. I took my last picture at the local catholic church so it was like I was traveling to church. This gives you lots of room to be creative!

Now for the tutorial.

Gather your supplies!

The quantities for these all depend on how many MOH and Bridesmaids you will have in your wedding. I am going to personally have 5 in all so I will be posting the quantities with that as the amount. Besides what I already had at home I purchased all of my supplies at Hobby Lobby. Besides things being on sale every week remember you can always get one regularly priced item for 40% off at Hobby Lobby. I use an app called RetailMeNot on my phone and it always has the code that is good for that week. I also use this app everywhere I go to see if there is any sort of deal I can get!

10 sheets(2 sheets of each kind) of scrap book paper; I used this because you can get really cool patterns and it is light weight so will not make your letter so heavy if you plan to mail, which I did. I also chose colors that compliment my wedding colors.

15 4x7 pictures-5 (Will You), 5 (Be My), and 5 (MOH or Bridesmaid); if you would have more pictures if you did the sign smaller of course you would have more or if you have more girls.

5 large invitation envelopes; the ones I bought were from Hobby Lobby and were 5.25 x 7.75 in. They were also a color that compliments my wedding colors.

Ruler, Pencil, Scissors or Paper Trimmer, Glue Stick; I used the craft bond one
 
Step 1: Take two sheets of matching scrapbook paper.

 

Take one of the sheets and glue it to the other piece by putting 1 inch of glue on the top of one and overlapping the other.

 

Step 2: Trim your scrapbook paper so that it is able to fit inside of your envelope. I like to use whole numbers for everything and wanted to make sure that I had space in my envelopes; I wanted you to see what kind of back it has.

My envelopes were 7.75 in wide so I measured for the paper to be 7 in wide. I measured 7 in all the way down the paper then drew a line connecting all of my dots.

I used scissors to cut the paper, but I would have much rather used a paper trimmer. I think it would have made this process a lot easier.

 

Step 3: Next we need to measure for the height of the envelope. My envelopes were 5.25 in so I decided to measure 5 in. I made a pencil mark 5 in down on both sides because this will later be your guide to fold.

Step 4: We are now ready to place a glue our first picture. Place your picture in between the top of the paper and where the mark you made is. Make sure to put enough glue on the back of the picture so it will be secure.

Step 5: Now we are ready to make our first fold. First I made sure that I had measured correctly and the picture was positioned in the correct spot on the paper by putting my envelope on top of it. This way you will be able to trim off paper at the top if you need to.

Then I pinched the paper at both of the pencil marks and folded the paper all the way across.

Now repeat steps 4 & 5 depending on how many photos you have. Please note that if you have more pictures you will possibly need more scrapbook paper as well.

Once I glued my last picture I needed to trim off some paper at the bottom.

Here is the final product after repeating the steps as needed.

I also included a special letter for my maids that I made personal for each of them.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! There are many more to come. If you have any comments on how I can make them better I would greatly appreciate it!

Love,