Recently, I had the distinct honor of being my friends’ witness to their city hall nuptials. 
To make it festive, I met Sarah and Bryan on the building steps with a bouquet of dahlias for her and a simple boutonniere for the him. And since it was a rather last-minute DIY project the night before, my pile of scrap T-shirt hems became suddenly very valuable. Luckily, a few scraps that I had left over from a previous T-shirt project were the perfect hue for that wedding day “something blue.”
All you need are some fresh flowers, a rubber band, two straight pins, a pair of scissors, and some T-shirt strips!
For the bouquet, I arranged the flowers in one hand and, when the arrangement was satisfactory, I loosely wrapped them with the rubber band. Then I centered the stretched out T-shirt cord against the stems and gently but securely wrapped the ends around and around the bouquet, eventually tying them in a knot (oh, how appropriate).
For the boutonniere, I flattened one the stretched T-shirt cords and wrapped it around the stem, hiding the end of the fabric underneath the wrapped coils. Then I inserted a single straight pin to keep it in place. I brought a second pin to attach it to the groom’s lapel on-site.
(All excellent practice for some boutonniere-making I’ve been recruited to do for the suits in my brother’s wedding party next weekend!)
Da-dum-de-dum, da-dum-de-dum…from scraps to scrap-tacular! May they all (friends and scraps) live happily ever after.
[ Posted on October 7th, 2010 ]
