A lavender wedding involves widespread use of this flower. A master class with a step-by-step photo will tell in detail how to decorate a car, make accessories for this event, a lavender cake.
If you like the delicate lilac color, the aromatic scent of lavender, when thinking about which wedding styles to choose, stop at lavender.
Clothes for the bride and groom for the wedding in lavender color
When choosing outfits for the heroes of the occasion, pay attention to various shades of lilac, including lilac, to create images of newlyweds in lavender style. The bride can wear a light flowing dress, the upper part of which is enclosed in a corset. Also, this garment can be loose fit with a long train.
A white dress or an ivory shade will also be appropriate. In any case, the bride's attire should be different from her bridesmaids' outfits so that she stands out from their background.
Bouquets of lavender will complement the images of the witnesses, and the hero of the occasion can be provided with a small bouquet of light-colored flowers. The groom will be able to wear a dark suit and a light shirt or light purple. A lavender boutonniere will look good on the lapel of his jacket. It must be supplemented with leaves to create such a combination.
This is a celebration of two loving hearts. Therefore, the young will dress up in a dress and a suit of their favorite colors. But since this is a lavender wedding, then such colors as in the photo will be very appropriate for this day.
How to decorate a car for a lavender wedding - photo
The groom and the bride will sit in the car, which also speaks volumes about what kind of wedding it is.
Watch a detailed master class with step-by-step photos to show you how to create car decorations. These are the decorations on the trunk and hood. But it is better to measure the car beforehand or ask the dimensions of this vehicle where you will rent it. Then you can create a car decoration for a wedding in these sizes.
And here is what the decorations look like, which will be on the handle in the door.
Take an organza with a width of 1.5 m. You need to create 2 parts of this width. Cut a rectangle 193 cm long from the first, and 115 cm from the second.
Fold these two blanks on the sides of one and a half meters, sew them with ribbons to help close the seam. Then fold in the folds.
On the other side, sew on a white tape, lay folds along an even edge, the narrow part will be near the headlights. You need to sew 7 pieces of linen gum to it. Sew the same amount of elastic bands to the wide part. You will pass them under the hood and tie them together by pulling this decoration on top of the hood.
Cut out an oval piece from white linen fabric, sew a 2 cm wide organza ribbon across.
Sew some linen bands to this part to keep it hooked on the hood. Then collect a lilac organza on a thread, sew this frill to this part.
Take the fake flower garlands and stick them here. You can use the ones that you have. Attach lavender sprigs if you can get them. You can also use white roses, which look great on a lilac background. Fasten smaller flowers between them.
Attach these flowers with silicone glue. Artificial lavender twigs are fixed here. Here's a decoration for the hood turned out.
As you can see, there is a nice big bow next to it. It will decorate the trunk. For thin fabrics to be thicker, place a quarter of non-woven fabric here. Fold the organza in half, then in four, and sew it in such a way as to make a bow.
Make a white organza piece in the same way. You also need to fold this blank, roll it up in the form of a large bow and sew in the middle.
Place the white bow over the lilac bow. the top will be slightly smaller than the bottom. Take a linen elastic and a satin ribbon, sew such a blank out of it, which will be a kind of stretch. To do this, you need to cut 2 identical pieces of linen elastic, a satin ribbon and sew it to these two blanks.
Then sew this stretch to the bow. Stick lavender here.
Need to make decorations for the pens. To do this, also take the organza and tuck the edges to fold and align them. Then connect the middle and tie a transparent tape here, which is 1 cm wide.
Take narrow lilac satin ribbons, connect their ends on the back, tighten with a needle and thread in the middle. Hide these seams in the center under the small pieces of purple tape, the edges of which need to be tucked up and sewn up with an invisible seam.
Sew this satin ribbon bow on top of the organza one. First, the ends of the satin ribbons must be cut at an angle of 45 degrees. In this case, four of these were created and then attached to the handles of the machine.
Here's how to decorate a car for a lavender wedding.
How to make accessories for a lavender wedding?
They will be useful to you not only for this event, but also when you think, what kind of wedding is 46 years of marriage? She is also lavender. Therefore, while preparing for this non-circular anniversary, take the following notes into service.
You can also decorate a car for 46 years of the wedding so that the spouses drive in it to a restaurant or to another place of celebration.
See how to decorate wine glasses in lilac tones. This can be done in a variety of ways. If you have an outline for painting on glass of this color, use it. First paint the glasses a lilac color, when the coating is dry, apply a white outline.
And in the background you see a money box. It will come in handy during the wedding. To do this, take a suitable cardboard box. Cover it with lilac satin on top. It needs to be taken with a margin to lay the folds and fix them with decorative pins. Make a cut on top so that bills can be lowered here.
Finish it with white stitching. At the top, you also need to lay the folds and fix them with this white lace tape.
A basket is made in the same color scheme, in which you can put wine glasses. You will make it based on a suitable container of this shape. You will glue pieces of foam rubber outside and inside to the bottom and sides. Then cover it all up with lilac crepe satin or satin. Treat the top with white lace tape.
Make a bow out of organza. To do this, cut a long strip of fabric from this material, then thread with a needle to create a circle. Sew artificial apples and flowers in the center. Attach the decor item to the side of the basket.
You can also make your own ring cushion. You will need a dense base. You can use cardboard or thin plywood. Cover this blank with foam rubber, attach the fabric on top. Decorate this pillow with lace braid, flowers, satin ribbon bows of different widths, beads.
Take lace and lilac satin ribbon. You will need these two items to create your next lavender wedding accessories. Degrease the outside of the glasses first. Then, using invisible glue, attach a strip of lace of the correct size to the outside of the glass. Do the same with the second glass.
Tie a lilac ribbon with a bow. In its center, attach some kind of decorative element, for example, such a glass flower or bead. Attach satin ribbons in the back in the middle of this bow. Then it remains to glue the bow on the glass. Create the same for the second glass. They will stand near the newlyweds. You can use the same materials to make an invitation for a lavender wedding.
Take a sheet of white cardboard, paste over it on the outside with beautiful paper. Secure the lace braid vertically. Attach a satin ribbon tied with a bow on top. Print out the word "Invitation" on lilac paper and cut out this rectangle with openwork scissors.
This is what such a card looks like inside. Here you can attach printed images of the symbolic newlywed couple. Glue the invitation on the other side.
You can attach the symbols of the newlyweds to the sides of the boxes, which will help make a cake from bonbonnieres. Look at this work in more detail.
Lavender wedding cake with bonbonnieres
These boxes are good because each guest will take such a present for himself. Inside you can put candies, gifts or lavender sachets that smell fragrant. The next photo shows a diagram of such a box and shows the dimensions of its sides.
- For a lavender wedding to be so beautifully decorated, make a variety of boxes of this type. Glue a lilac bow on each.
- Then these bonbonnieres need to be placed in a round box. To make it, take a circle of cardboard, using a paper strip cut from two large sides in a zigzag pattern, you will glue this blank to a rectangular strip that will be the sides.
- Then glue the ends of this part together. Decorate the sides. For this, all the same materials are suitable as for postcards and glasses.
- Glue a lilac satin ribbon of the required width to the sidewall from the outside, and attach an openwork white braid on top.
- Now put the boutonnieres in such a box so that they fill it. Since there will be three tiers in the wedding cake, put the rest of the boxes in the second and third tiers.
- Arrange all of these floors so that the narrowest one is at the top. Place a small box on it to attach a figurine of the bride and groom. You can do them with quilling.
- Take the wooden dolls. Cut out the details of the suit from black paper, and from white paper to cut out the shirt to decorate the groom. Cut a circle out of paper, chop its edges with scissors to get a hairstyle for it. Take paper of the same color as the hair of the bride's chosen one.
The same goes for her. And to make a dress, twist spirals from thin white stripes, glue the ends. Now take a suitable shape so that it resembles a bride's skirt. Create drops from paper spirals, glue the prepared shape with them. Also attach paper circles here. Make the top of the girl's dress out of paper.
A lavender wedding involves these flowers. Therefore, you can put sachets filled with such dried flowers in the bonbonnieres. There will also be embroidered sprigs of lavender here. See how to make such presents.
How to make a sachet for a lavender wedding?
Sachets are bags of flavorings. They are designed to scent the laundry and repel moths. Therefore, it will be possible to put such scented bags in the wardrobe. In this case, there will be dried lavender sprigs inside the soft containers.
Take:
- canvas;
- hoop;
- lavender embroidery scheme;
- suitable floss threads;
- embroidery needle;
- thin lilac braid;
- scissors;
- dry lavender flowers.
Using colored thread, make markings on the canvas to determine which sectors the drawing will be in. Embroider it according to the pattern. Then cut out the sachet to make rectangles.
Sew each on the sides to create pouches. Attach lace or organza strips at the top. Add dried lavender flowers here, which you can buy or prepare yourself, if possible. Then tie each bag with a ribbon of the appropriate color. Green is in perfect harmony with lilac. Therefore, you can use these two colors.
Then it remains to put each sachet in a bonbonniere and put in this original cake. And if you want to make it sweet, then watch a master class with step by step photos.
How to make lavender cake?
It will be useful to you in a variety of cases. A lavender wedding implies that sweetness. You can also bake it when you have a Provence-style birthday or other event dedicated to the area. Also, when you celebrate 46 years of your wedding, be sure to prepare such a sweetness. After all, now you know what is the date of 46 years of the wedding. This is a lavender wedding. You can also make such a cake just to pamper your home. There are many recipes. But since this is a lavender wedding, then use different shades of lilac.
The recipe for milk biscuit was used here. He is very interesting. Take six egg yolks, add 15 g of vanilla extract and 200 ml of milk. Whisk these ingredients together in a bowl.
Mix dry ingredients separately in another container. It:
- 375 g flour;
- 420 g sugar;
- 165 g butter;
- a pinch of salt;
- 15 g baking powder.
Add milk to this dry mixture, mix well. Whisk the cooled egg whites separately. Add them carefully here and mix. Now divide the dough into four pieces and use food coloring to color these pieces. It uses shades of lilac and pink.
Place the containers in an oven preheated to 180g and bake until tender. Then you will need to get the cakes, cover them with a cloth towel and wait until they cool down. Then remove the biscuit from the mold.
But you can use baking paper, then it will be even easier to get the baked goods out of the mold.
Make a cream. To do this, take cream with a fat content of 35 or more percent 400 g. Beat them with a mixer. Then whisk separately 450 g of cream cheese, add 15 g of vanilla extract and 380 g of confectionery sugar. Knock down for about 10 more minutes. Then toss the creamy mixture with the whipped cream. Start collecting the cake. First, put the darkest cake on the bottom, brush it on top with cream using a pastry spatula. Put the lighter on top. In this way, collect the whole cake. Put the cream on top and sides as well and put the cake in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Since this is a lavender wedding, you can decorate this sweetness to resemble these flowers. To do this, use food colors of this color, you can make the top coat of them. Sprinkle the cake with tinted nuts, lilac candies.
If desired, leave this sweetness white and attach lavender sprigs on top. You can also place them on a large cake tier.
There are no hard and fast rules. If you wish, apply a kind of casual strokes, placing the cream on the sides and top of the cake. You can decorate this sweetness with pasta cookies, which will also be made in lilac tones, decorate the cake with light colors that will set off its purple color.
You can use the cream attachment and squeeze it out with these flakes. Then use a variety of food colors. You can also apply a little yellow to create the bottom cake. This color scheme also looks wonderful.
You can simply decorate the baked cupcake with icing and garnish with lavender sprigs. Such a dish is suitable for tea drinking in a narrow family circle, if you do not want to celebrate a wedding magnificently.
You can make a cake out of many layers to make it this tall. Lubricate it with a little cream, sprinkle with powdered sugar, decorate with lavender sprigs.
Not only large cakes will be appropriate. You can bake muffins, muffins, add food coloring to them. These sweets will also help highlight the lavender style of your wedding.
When making a bouquet of lavender, remember that this flower has a strong scent. Therefore, it is better to choose the rest of the flowers for the composition, which are not so fragrant.
Use ones that harmonize well with this basic plant.
If you take peonies, you will not go wrong. But it is better to use monochrome specimens so that bright lavender sprigs set off them. Take white or pink peonies in half-life. Add lavender sprigs to them. Then tie the tape with matching tape.
You can add white roses and bluish orchids to the bridal bouquet. Then you will need very few lavender sprigs. Use a sharp pruner or knife to trim the stems and tie them with tape.
If you love wildflowers then add them. These can be chamomile decorated with lavender. And on the left photo there are soft pink plants that will help make a romantic bouquet.
If you like large flowers, use decorative sunflowers. Only three pieces are enough. Arrange them in a circle with lavender in between. You need to decorate such a bouquet with a ribbon.
You can make a bouquet of one lavender or add very few other flowers. The following compositions are composed in a spiral technique. To make these, first take a few twigs, then start surrounding them with other plants, place them slightly diagonally and in a circle. They are also decorated with a ribbon. You can tie a bow out of it here or attach with a decorative pin.
The compositions are distinguished by their simplicity and naturalness. But they will decorate the bride's attire and help make her look even more romantic.
Everything is ready for the celebration, all that remains is to invite the guests. See what postcards you can create for them.
Lavender wedding - invitation design
If you wish, use two colors in this work - white and lilac. You can make an envelope with a slit at the top. This is where you will insert the postcard. Make this envelope out of cardboard. Glue a pattern cut from a lilac paper template on top. Take a satin ribbon of this color, make a bow out of it. Attach a satin ribbon rose. Glue the bow to the envelope.
Make an invitation out of white paper, print the text on it. Punch a hole on top with a hole punch, tie a satin ribbon here.
If you have a lilac self-hardening mass, then use it as a seal. It is necessary to pre-dry the lavender sprigs by hanging them up with the stems. Then you attach them to the invitation, tie it and attach here a round blank in the form of a seal, on which the names of the heroes of the occasion will be written.
Check out step-by-step photos to help you make your lavender wedding invitations. Take pre-made envelopes or craft them out of paper and glue them together. Use white cardboard to write the invitation. You can send one to a family, and if a person comes alone, then address a postcard to him. Attach a small bunch of lavender to it, tie it with threads. Then you will need to put this invitation in an envelope, seal it and hand it to the addressee.
Another fun way is to create these postcards using watercolors. Such author's masterpieces will surely please the invited guests, and you will be able to show your artistic abilities.
Also showcase your calligraphic handwriting if you decide to adopt the second method. You can look online to find out how to create pretty letters to use for lavender-style invitations. Take a lilac marker or similar in tone and write the text on a white background.
If you know how to work with plastic, make a seal from this self-hardening mass. Then you will need to use lilac plastic. On the seal, you first write the names of the newlyweds. To make this detail look antique, add a ragged edge effect. To do this, you can burn them over a candle flame, and age the paper.
If you are good at drawing or have such acquaintances, then portray the bride and groom on postcards. Everyone will be pleased to receive such an invitation.
And if you are for originality, then take small transparent containers, put there an invitation written or printed on a sheet of lilac paper. Place a sprig of lavender in the same container, or place it outside and tie it with twine, and close the top of the container with a cork. You will create other invitations in the same way.
Anyone interested in this topic can study it in more detail by watching the videos. The first tells the story of a lavender wedding.
And the second will tell you how to decorate for this solemn event.
