Oh man, you are all a creative bunch! Earlier this week, we asked you what décor item you were most looking forward to having at your wedding and you all came back with some doozies of ideas! Like, let’s see… Bri is cutting out bird silhouettes to string along their gazebo roof, while Anna will be using linens her great-grandma immigrated with in 1904, and Nicki has some big plans for oversized popcorn tins.

I’ve pulled out a couple other ideas below to get your juices flowing, but head on over to the comments because, really, it’s so inspiring!

And, since you all worked so hard, it’s time to announce the winners of the Paper + Craft book… Congrats to Ashley (comment #6) and Anny (comment #25)! You have both won copies – I’ll contact you personally to get your details. And we all want to see photos of hurricane lanterns and scrolls once they’re done, all right?

Now, for a few of your fab reader ideas:

Jessica: I’m really looking forward to the signs! I’m taking a letterpress class starting next week, so I’m hoping to rent studio space after I start and I’m going to make little signs for the tables with math jokes and other comments. I’m an ecologist and my fiance is a computer scientist, so it’ll probably involve pi and tau.

Vivian C: Edibles instead of flowers! I love flowers, but we’re getting married at an arboretum in Hawaii, which will have no shortage of foliage and flowers.

So, the wedding décor element that I am most excited about is creating my own vegetable bouquet (think: different kinds of kale, colorful chard, herbs, etc.) and fruit and vegetable centerpieces that guests (many of whom are flying in from out-of-town) can take home with them and eat after the event (pineapples, mangos, papayas, mangosteens and whatever is in season and plentiful at local farms!). The rest will be donated to organizations that feed the homeless.

It is a part of our wedding that truly reflects our values since a year ago, I started a program that collects produce from farmer’s markets so that homeless people can have more healthy local food in their diets. The website attached is an article with a photo about my food donation program!

Chelsea: we’re making flags that say Yay for our guests to wave after we are announced husband and wife.

Jessica: For our country antique wedding, my roses were dried by me over the last 20 years! Ive always saved the ones I’ve received, from parents, grandparents now passed, instructors, my fiance .. and never knew what for really…. until now!!

Jennifer L: I am most excited about the things I’m making- which do also happen to be paper.

I am making a paper garland curtain ( like bead curtains) that will go in an arch way in our venue that leads to the patio. Most of the strands will be white, heart-shaped or round paper doilies. the center strands will be different shades and patterns of blue paper leaf/feather shapes. Then they’ll be split down the middle and pulled back at both sides- like a big curtain. The other thing I’m really excited about are the light up crepe paper roses I’m making for centerpieces. They’ll have to be big enough to hide the LEDs in their centers, but small enough to fit into brandy snifters. I haven’t decided to give them paper leaves of feather ones…………

Happy decorating!