One Lucky Day

reminisce |ˌreməˈnis|

verb [ intrans. ] indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events

It's been almost 8 years since I was planning my daughter's wedding.  It was a crazy time with not only a wedding but we moved from our home of 17 years and I was in the middle of doing a book, "Designing With Fabric".  It has been a long time, but if by chance you purchased that book, you might have noticed that most of the projects that I did were wedding related.  Many projects had to do double duty in both the wedding and the book so I could get to all that needed to be done.  One of my favorite projects was Emali's bridal shower invitation.  My sister and niece did the shower but asked if I would help design the invitation.  We all got together to assemble them....it was a lot of fun, and actually went together pretty quick with the three of us working on it.

Here is how the invitation was pictured in the book - 

Please don't notice that 2 hangers in the center are facing backwards....loved this picture, but that always bugged me!

The idea for this came to me in the middle of the night.  I got up, sketched it and went back to bed.  Am I the only one that does that?

You will need:

wire hangers - I got smaller sized hangers from my dry cleaner.  

3 book pages per invitation

small buttons

1/4" ribbon

tag

fabric tag

Cover the hanger with 3 vintage book pages.  I used pages from a vintage wedding etiquette book that I found.  I used a bit of glue stick just to keep them together until the stitching and ribbon ties were done.

Page #1

Covering the left side of hanger

Page #2

The center page

 Page #3

Covering the right side of hanger

Punch 5 holes for ribbon ties

Add ribbon, stitch X's and sew on buttons.  

Up close details....

A tag was slipped into the "pocket" between pages.  It was to be returned to the bride at the shower.  It could contain advice, a quote, or a memory for the bride.  This created a perfect start for a "Bride's Closet" theme carried on through the evening.

The actual information about the shower was printed onto fabric and cut into a tag shape.  We were able to get four per fabric sheet.  Twill tape was used to make a tab at the top and attached with a grommet. 

(The printing on the fabric was quite clear, I have blurred the contact info) 

 

 The fabric tag was tied to the top of the hanger.

Today I went to another shower for Emali, this time a baby shower.  

After 3 darling girls she is having a boy!!  Congratulations Em!

Have a good weekend,

deb