Our wedding DIY

After a full year, finally .... (Actually I did this post a long time ago, somehow I FORGOT to publish. I cannot believe it stayed in the draft for a little over a year. :P) Anyway, I want to dedicate this post just to talk about the things we (Evan and I) made for our wedding. For those who know me, I am a graphic designer and I like art and craft and making stuff, and hubby is a packaging designer, so what happened when two art people having a wedding together? They got to make a lot of stuff together and save a lot of money (or spend more because they want everything to be perfect? :/)

Our first try was those cute little hangers that has "Bride", "Mrs. Yang" or bridesmaid's name on it. It was actually pretty easy, after we got all the materials from Michael's, I finished the whole project within 2 hours. It's easy! If anyone are interested, feel free to let me know, so I might have a tutorial in the future.

Bridal Hanger

The next project will be our wedding invitation. We (especially I) want it to be unique, cute and lovely, I do not want to use those template invitation that everyone has. Since we bought our house in 2013, and getting married will be like starting a home/family together. I have this idea of building a new home from scratch. Well, making this pop up house is not hard; however, making 120 copies is really driving us crazy, LITERALLY crazy. We have to print, cut, fold, glue... every single task took us so much time. I kinda think it's a crazy idea to do a pop up wedding invitation, I have no idea how we could do it. :/ 

Very first prototype I made just to show Hub my idea (left); the actual invitation (Chin version) (right)

This is the project solely done by Evan. I was too overwhelming with work and wedding planning at that time, so hubby got to finish this himself. This is a very cute cake topper. Our cake was a strawberry short cake from Phoenix Bakery in downtown LA.  We shopped around for nearly two months, everything in town is either taste bad, or overly pricy. Most places we went to only offer normal wedding cake which has no icing or fondant or any kind of decoration. :( If we want something special, we will have to pay a fortune. Since Hub really like Phoenix's short cake (That's the first bakery we went to, and their cake was amazing and we got quite a few compliments on the cake, a few bride-to-be even asked us for their info.) We talked to Phoenix, and they will only provide simple cake design, so we decided to make a cake topper to make this simple wedding cake pops. Hub made two dolls out of paper and wood, standing under an arch. OMG!! This is just super cute!! With the cake and the fresh flowers. This  is just the best wedding cake ever!!! 

Hub will take order to custom made wedding cake topper, if you want to order your cake topper with us. :) We can custom made one that suit you. email me, I am his manager! :P

Happy 1st year anniversary, happy Easter!

(Oh, by the way, as you see, my blog is alive again. :) stay tuned for more.)