Crepe Paper Flowers: Tulip

Crepe paper flowers are crafty, fun and still elegant for a wedding. Create your own crepe paper tulips for your wedding decor using a few supplies and a little crafty bride know-how with the Martha Stewart Wedding’s Crepe Paper Tulip.

Supplies:
Tulip Petal Template
Colored Crepe Paper
Scissors
Decorating Stamen
Green Floral Tape

Step One: Cut out the Tulip Petal Template from Martha Stewart Weddings by clicking here.

Step Two: Use the template to cut out six petals using the template and desired color of crepe paper.

Step Three: Shape each petal to cup inward just slightly and set aside.

Step Four: Create pleats on the bottom portion of each petal and pinch the folds into place.

Step Five: Hold the decorating stamen in one hand and wrap three petals tightly around it. Wrap the remaining three petals on the seams of the first three, leaving them a little looser than the first.

Step Six: Secure the petals in place by pinching the bottom of the crepe paper petals and stretching a piece of tight floral tape around them. Repeat the process to make several flowers.

How to Start a Wedding Budget

You're engaged! Now it is time planning a wedding of your dreams, but before you start picking out the florists, interviewing the caterers or even purchasing the dress, you need to sit down and create a wedding budget. A wedding budget will give you a breakdown of how much you can spend on the food, the decorations and of course, the dress.

Who is Paying?

While tradition states the parents of the bride pay for the wedding, in today’s economy that is not always the case. Sit down with parents of both the bride and groom and find out exactly who is paying and how much they are paying. Get specific amounts rather than just a ballpark figure.

The average wedding costs $25,000; therefore, if the parents are not covering the entire average, the couple needs to sit down and decide how much they can afford to pay toward the wedding themselves.

What do You Really Need?
Sure you want doves to fly away at the wedding after you exchange the vows, but do you really need that? Make a list of the bare essentials for the wedding. These are the things you absolutely need in order for the wedding to happen.

Some examples of must-haves at a wedding are a venue (or place to get married), officiant, wedding dress and tuxedo.

What is Most Important?

Some couples have certain aspects of the wedding that are more important to them than others. Ask yourself and your groom what items are “musts” in the wedding. Only select two or three musts such as a gorgeous wedding dress, a certain caterer or a specific venue. Sit down with the groom and create the must list, but be realistic.

Set Limits on Items

Give the most money to the “musts” of the wedding or reserve enough funds to be flexible with them. The rest of the items in the wedding need to have some sort of monetary amount listed by them so that while shopping, you are aware of just how much you can spend on each item.

Not sure how to prioritize? Use Crafty Brides Wedding Planning Questionnaire to prioritize.

Welcome to Crafty Brides!

After being in the wedding business for over a decade I have learned my fair share of how it works, especially in the wedding planning process. Over the past 10 years I have helped family and friends plan affordable, gorgeous weddings and now it is my turn to share it with the rest of the world. As a former wedding planner, cake decorator and caterer, I will give you the inside scoop on what makes vendors charge what they do, how you can get a deal out of any vendor and all of the wedding decorations and planning you can do yourself to save thousands of dollars.

Do-it-yourself wedding decorations are not tacky. In fact, a bride can decorate her own classy, elegant wedding while everyone thinks she spend a fortune. All she has to do is be a little crafty…

So become a crafty bride! Take action and create the wedding of your dreams and spend the savings on your honeymoon.