Church Wedding Decorations

Deciding on your church wedding decorations takes a lot of time...and a big bite out of the wedding budget! Here are some tips on how to save money by making some of your own decorations.

Wedding Decorations for Church Doors

Church wedding decorations often include hanging something special on the doors. Before you decide to do this, you must check with the church officiant to see if this is permitted. You may be told that it is not allowed to drill holes or any hanging devices that will damage the doors.

Ask if it permissible to use a metal door hanger. They often come in black, silver or gold. If you wish, they are easily painted to match the decor of your wedding. Whether you hang a church door wreath, wedding bows or flower arrangements, keep them on the light side in case the door must be opened or shut during the ceremony. You certainly don`t want something tumbling down on someone's head!

This bride to this wedding wanted to keep the charming rustic flavor the this little country church. I sponge painted metal door hangers with a light green paint, put some cut up OASIS foam in a heavy duty freezer bag (to prevent drips), inserted it into the tins and poked small holes with a floral knife. I then carefully inserted the fresh hydrangeas deep into the foam in the plastic bag.

These were a great favorite with the bride and matched the tin pew decorations and flower girl basket. These were church wedding decorations that the bride could use as a keepsake to adorn her new home with.

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Keepsake Christmas Decorations - Part 2 - Picture Christmas Wreath

Christmas memories always include the time I put aside for my children to make Christmas decorations. We love to make wall decorations and have many keepsakes of past Christmases, some 25 years old! Remembering the activities that we shared making the decorations makes the holidays more special as you lovingly place your decorations on the walls. In the last article, Christmas Keepsake Decorations - Part 1, you saw how to make a "Rudolph Handmade Deer", using your child's hand for antlers. A perfect companion keepsake to place beside it is a Picture Christmas Wreath, using your child's picture as the centerpiece.

Materials needed: white poster board, red felt, scissors (both regular and Z edged), glue, green tempera paint, red wooden beads, tape, a protractor or 2 different sized bowls, some newspaper, and a picture of your child. If you can get your child's picture in front of a Christmas tree, then it will really be cute! Doing these kinds of Christmas activities can make a family feel closer and helps make wonderful Christmas memories.

The first thing that you should do is draw 2 circles on the white poster board. The largest should be about 7 or 8". The smaller circle should be 3 & ½ to 4 & ½" and centered in the middle of the larger circle. Let your child help you by cutting out the shapes. Use craft zigzag scissors to cut the outside edge on the larger circle like small Zs. Cutting the inner circle might be hard for children and they may need you to start the cut.

Next, lay down newspapers and let your child paint the larger circle with green tempera paint. It will be cute to see the 'evergreen' look or their brush strokes when it dries. While the paint is drying, take the 3 & ½ " square cut red felt and draw a bow on it. The bow should use most of the square. The bow looks like a butterfly and the ribbon will be like an upside down V, about1" wide and 1" long. You should practice a few times until you get the design you like, then copy to the red felt square, and cut it.

Once the paint dries, you're ready to assemble the wreath. Turn the painted side down and tape the picture over the hole in the middle. Turn it over and check to see if the picture is centered. If the placement is good, then turn it back over and glue the edges to the wreath. Cut a 5" circle from the white poster board and glue it over the picture, on the back.

You are now ready to finish the Christmas wreath. Attach the red bow with glue to the bottom of the wreath. Glue 5 red wooden beads on the wreath, like holly berries. Your child's masterpiece is complete and ready to display alone or with the Rudolph Handmade deer. We enjoy making wall decorations that add Christmas spirit, memories and color to our home. If you and your family enjoyed this activity, then you can always use the remaining supplies to make other wreaths, and give them as Christmas presents from the child or family. More keepsake memory decorations will be explained in Keepsake Christmas Decorations.

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How to Make Homemade Christmas decorations

After home-made Christmas decorations for your Christmas tree is much more than sentimental ornaments purchased with store. Give your home that warm, old-fashioned feeling of Christmas and is a good way to take the family during the holidays. Show your artistic side this year! Anyone who comes to your home the feeling that "special glory" that brings the holidays to see if your tree this holiday season.

Most homemade Christmas decorations can be generated byItems found in or around your home, with little or no cost to you. One idea that my family would do every year when I was younger, is to collect pine cones from outside and decorate. Growing up in the Northeast, we've had enough! We gain a few pine cones and various types of jewelry with them. My favorites were those shining. We would like to take a different color glitter glue and a set of glitter at the tip of each leaf on pine cones. Do all one color or useseveral. Tie string at the top to hang with and have a beautiful, natural homemade decorated Christmas tree. Another idea is that pine cones, Angel with the cone for the body. Just cut some wings of paper or foil, add decorate a head and a halo with a gun and glue.

Homemade Christmas wreath can be made with any number of things. Popcorn is probably the most common. There are many other things you can use, but if you want to do somethingseveral. You can use any kind of food that will go bad and that is soft enough to pull a string through, as some types of dried beans, berries, candies or marshmallows. If you do not want to use the foods, the use of plastic or glass beads or artificial flowers or just what you may think that plugs a hole.

I think we all have seen the Gingerbread Man Ornament Only bake gingerbread is hard, decorate and hang from the tree, pulled by a stringthrough a hole in the cookie. These are really fun to help the children with, even if they can eat more sweets and decorations of ice that actually put up decorations!

If you want to recycle, there are many things that used to house Christmas decorations. Bottlecaps and bulbs are just some of the things that you can use. Remove bottle caps in different colors and glue together in various shapes with a hot glue gun. For example, you use a bottle ofthe center and connect others around him in circles. You can then with cotton, glitter, beads or anything you would like a nice piece of jewelry to do. With the lights can be Rudolph or a snowman! For Rudolph, brown or light bulb, you feel wrapped in brown. Glue on a red pom-pom for the nose, glue or paint on a mouth, some eyes Googly, and some cut-out horns. Tie a string around the top to hang with and Rudolph! White cotton or use of material considered to build a snowman! Onlysticks to the onion, add a cotton ball or piece of material considered for the head and decorate as desired. You can even angels or Santa Claus! With a little 'fantasy you can see many beautiful ornaments with recycled glass lamps.

Do you have a series of simple, glass jewelry, but you want the pine, a little 'this year? Take the tip of the plain light bulbs, and some swirl acrylic paint on the inside! You can use a brush, or just a few drops of colorIndoor circling around and tilting the glass ornaments. Add some 'Glitter, if you like. Allow to dry and then the cap. Another good idea for ornaments clear glass is to put the pictures inside. One of my favorite gifts I ever did was have a picture, a relative of my son in one of these ornaments. Only the photos inside, recapped tires the ornament and tied some ribbon around the top. This is a nice addition to my tree every year! These make great Christmas presents home!They are simple, inexpensive, and are kept as a keepsake for years to come.

I hope you got some good ideas from these suggestions! Have a Merry Christmas!

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