Customer Reviews

Hand-Crafted Weddings: Over 100 Projects & Ideas for Personalizing Your Wedding

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Inspite of the book's relatively good reviews, I found that it covered my expectations not at all well. Everything was too much. The stationery examples were too elaborate, the accessories were too old-fashioned and of a poor taste, the colors were mismatched, the bouquets were too fancy and poor at the same time for a wedding in style, the memorabilia section was nothing nice and special as well. Fortunately, I have purchased two more books. I will keep this book for a very few reasons, that I feel I have to state them: the stationery gave me ideas for other invitations, the twig ball on page 91 gave me an idea of how to use pot pourrie, the twig arbor on page 123 is fantastic for Christmas and the directions of how to make a wreath at the "Staging a reception" section. I really don't want to be bad, but I was really, really disappointed.

This is perhaps the most elegant Do-It-Yourself wedding accessory/decoration/floral book I have EVER seen. (And I own a lot of them...lol) It has lots of step-by-step photos and a very complete project list. Also at the end of every project, it shows variations of that project, so that you can truly personalize these items for your wedding. The floral chapter is wonderful in and of itself. There is a beautiful ribbon embroidery heart-shaped ring pillow which I plan to make as an accent pillow for my bedroom...it is too pretty! Whether you will be DIY out of budget considerations, or would just like to personalize your wedding with some extra special handcrafted touches, or surprise a bride-to-be with a special gift of your love, this is the book you will want to have!

A beautifully illustrated book with great instructions, but I found most projects were created with no budget in mind. When I think handcrafted I think of saving money on the project, I didn't think that was the case with this book. Great traditional ideas and instructions for decorating from cakes to veils but not with a small budget in mind. Well worth buying if you are looking for the personal touch of doing it yourself without being on much of a budget.

My daughter was married this August and we had searched many books during our preparation time. This book was by far the best one for ideas, instructions and colorful pictures. We used the ideas for the bouquets, flower girl baskets, etc. The wedding was gorgeous and the arangements were beautiful.

Great book with excellent ideas. Highly recommend. Great presentation and instructions. We will be using a lot of the ideas in the book for my daughters wedding. My daughter was undecided on her bouquet and headpiece until she looked at the bouquets and headpieces in this book and decided to use one of the examples. Recommend for the bride who is on a budget. This is a beautiful book, that I will use for other gift ideas. If you are a crafter, you must have this book.

I was looking for new wedding decoration ideas so I checked out this book and several others from the library. Out of all the books, I found this one to be the most helpful with very good ideas, easy to follow instructions and picures. I was able to put some of the ideas to use at the last wedding I did and the decorations went over very well. This book is worth buying.

This is a wonderful book, with beautiful pictures throughout the book. I saw it the first time at Michaels. From the moment I looked through it, I knew it was a valuable source in planning a do-it-yourself wedding, or even just adding a few homemade touches to a wedding that is professionally planned. This book has a few basic ideas for each of many aspects of a wedding. There are a few ideas I'm not too thrilled about and that's why I bought an additional wedding decoration book to supplement this one. I also bought a budget book as well, to help to keep the cost low and i bought an wedding organizer, which makes it easier to keep an overview over the whole wedding planning. There are a lot of wedding planners out there, so you are well advised to study them carefully, to find out which suits best for your purposes.

This book definitely met and exceeded my expectations. After looking through--and looking for--a book on craft ideas for weddings, I was thrilled to have this book in my possession! From designs for veils, garters and shoes to pew bows, ringbearer pillows and soo much more, I know I will use this for many ideas for our wedding. The idea on homemade invitations was also very cool & I loved the idea for the posy balls for the flower girls!

I am planning a wedding, and have taken this book out of the library - I find the instructions so helpful that I plan on buying my own copy. I am not crafty but wanted to do my own flowers to save $$ and was somewhat intimidated by Martha Stewart instructions. I found this book has great examples of bouquets, corsages and cake tops. There are other projects too, although some of the veils, etc. are a bit "much" - they would have done better on focusing on the simple stuff that low-talented people can handle, like the flowers. Good for flowers, though. The best instructions I have seen.

I absolutely love this book! I'm actually 19 and getting ready to get married but didn't want to put my e-mail or anything in. I have been freaking out over how to make my own veil and decorations. This book is definately great if you are on a tight budget but still want a beautiful wedding. You can make everything from decorations, centerpieces, veils, garters, ringbearer pillows and a whole lot more. I just got the book yesterday and am EXTREMELY pleased with it. I've already started on my veil. :D