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         Wedding Ideas DIY

Choosing Your Wedding Theme

Choosing a theme for your wedding can be a fun and exciting process! Here are some steps to help you choose the perfect wedding theme.
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1. Discuss with your partner: Your wedding theme should reflect both of your personalities and preferences. Have a conversation with your partner to identify what interests and values you would like to showcase in your wedding.
2. Consider your venue: Your wedding venue can influence the theme of your wedding. For example, if you are getting married in a beach location, you may want to consider a beach-themed wedding.
3. Take inspiration from your interests: Your hobbies and interests can also be a great source of inspiration for your wedding theme. For example, if you love a particular movie or TV show, you can incorporate elements from that into your theme.
4. Look at wedding blogs and Pinterest: Wedding blogs and Pinterest can offer a wealth of inspiration for wedding themes. You can see what trends are currently popular and what other couples have done for their wedding themes.
5. Choose a color palette: A color scheme is an important part of your wedding theme. Choose a color palette that reflects your personality and the vibe that you want for your wedding.
6. Don't be afraid to be creative: Ultimately, your wedding theme should represent you and your partner. Be creative and incorporate unique elements that make your wedding special and authentic to you.

Unique Locations

 We take your wedding theme to new settings and locations!  Art galleries, botanical gardens, raw warehouses, open spaces, museums or the not-so-new barn and courtyard atmospheres. Your event, a unique venue, we help set the mood, the celebration, whatever your purpose for gathering.

. the Winter Garden Rooms Venue is officially one of the new sacred space du jour options! Create this with a few plants, some cozy blankets and DIY like it's the corner of your comfy home!


. use white, faux fir to compliment white leather furniture and fur ottomans, large unique lanterns, street lamps and custom benches with pillows. 

​. divide areas, one with a fire pit, another with music playing, another hotspot for guest interaction! We create 
memories to last a lifetime.
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ucculents are out, herb bouquets are in. And they look so-pretty on your Scandinavian-inspired table setting. Now how are you planning to tell our sweetheart that you'd prefer rosemary over roses?

Elements,Designs: by PJ, Destination Wedding Expert

  • a lounge wedding
  • a tattoo wedding
  • a race car track
  • by camel
  • on bicycles
  • in a rainforest
  • in a shark tank
  • in an overwater chapel
  • in a cenote
  • at a brewery
  • in a lavender field
  • near a volcano, a volcano rim or near a crater
  • on an iceberg
  • a haunted castle wedding
  • a roof top sky wedding
  • in a treehouse
  • at a junk yard
  • eu natural
  • ziplining
  • under water
  • a waterfall wedding
  • riverfront
  • a camping wedding
  • at the zoo
  • at a shopping mall
  • in a shoe store
  • on a pier
  • ​a fitness or healthy wedding

* decor: tree trunks and branches, wood, bamboo, shark tank background, glass, lace, pearls, paper, seashells

. beat the Guinness World Record of 110 bridesmaids?  What about the best men count record?

​21 Terrific Tips for Using Doilies to Decorate!

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Elaborate Dessert & Wedding Spreads With PJ

Expect to see more delicious ideas with food stations, bar connections, personalized desserts, participation and movement is the trend at wedding receptions and parties.  Leave out the seated, formal and buffet style spreads.

  Food stations are very popular and requested and allow the ultimate in creativity and personalization of your special day. 

Choose a Seasonal Wedding!

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New Tattoos

Be exclusive, be shy, be mysterious with a new flash tattoo for your wedding!  These sheets come in gold and silver, what are your wedding colors and where will you put your tattoo asks the Wedding Fairy?  Will it be real or last through the celebration? Which is the one above, can you tell?

DIY Wedding
​Ideas & Trends

 It's about your style. From denim, lace, chair covers, decorate it yourself! From summer dresses to blue jeans, your style needs to make a statement. From paint-splattering and fabric trims to rocker studs and denim washes, we'll take it to the next level. 

Wedding Rehearsals

Culinary group rehearsal activities originate out of your hotel’s kitchen are by far, the most popular island to country. What’s on the horizon? Bar Wars, where a team creates its signature cocktail and then samples the recipe.  

15-Repurposed Light Bulb Ideas 

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How To Make Gratitude Stones

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Making gratitude stones is a physical reminder of things we are thankful for, grateful for, or love. They are helpful symbols to always keep in mind the importance of being thankful, to make them is very simple and their deep meaning will inspire your spiritual and personal life. 
The objective is to have an emblem that we can carry with us at any time to remind us of all the things and personas we are grateful for. From positive aspects of our life that we enjoy, our new mate, family, friends and celebrations of special meaning.

A great activity for BFF's, weddings or family reunions, a thank you gift for wedding guests, a talisman that gives you peace, a design that reminds you of power. 

Return Wedding Trends 
​with PJ
 

Making their way back are 1920s trends this seasons holiday decor.  Notice all the faux fur utilized in accessories, table settings, centerpieces & gifts. More faux furs are out than ever seen before for a great addition for couples who want a unique, rich and cozy theme.

How To: incorporate fur with placemats, rugs, throws and even unique table runners and skirts. For winter weddings, pine cones, acorns, cotton and glitter are also prevalent creating a mixture of wooden elements that have that rustic, winter feel, yet very glam!

 20 Wedding  Bouquet Wraps
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(Martha Stewart)

Fall Wedding Cocktails

DIY  Wire Jewelry & Gifts

With just a piece of wire and a few basic tools, create your own simple wire jewelry in no time!  It's easier than you think! In just 5 minutes, you can create chair markers, chic spiral bracelets and bouquet wraps. Make your own 5-minute wire bracelet. Materials:
 * 16-gauge wire or thicker metal    
* Hammer    
* Steel block or other very hard surface    
* Needle-nose pliers    
* Wire cutters


 Step 1: Cut a 12" piece of wire. Grab one end of the wire with your needle-nose pliers, begin curling it in a spiral. 
Step 2: Once the spiral is as big as you'd like, use pliers to bend an angle into the wire to begin to shaping the bracelet part. 
Step 3: Place wire onto your block and hammer flat to create a textured, finished look.
Step 4: Wrap wire around your wrist to sizing. Cut off excess, then use pliers to form a loop/hook on the end. Make sure not to close it all the way because hooking it into the spiral is how you'll fasten the bracelet onto your wrist
Step 5: Gently shape the bangle, wrap or bracelet into a circle or oval. If you happen to have bracelet bending pliers, those are great to use for this step.  

A Chocolate Wedding

Everything Chocolate! Truffles, cake, thank you gifts, table name places, welcome gift bags, chocolate bar use your imagination! Ask us about our Chocolate Belize Wedding!

Chocolat Lily: fabulous truffles from specialty resources. , fresh, seasonal, gorgeous made with organic chocolate! Collect raspberries, blueberries, fresh herbs and honey from your garden. Organic cream, butter, fresh fruit and nuts. Sumptuous creations! 

Indi Chocolate: Try Indi Chocolate in Seattle, WA. Gift lovely chocolate bodycare products to the bridal party and guests. With a specialty high cocoa% dark chocolates, they customize your chocolates to match your theme!

Signature Wedding Cocktails 

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Signature Wedding Drinks

Signature wedding drinks are hotter than ever and come with extravagance!

With a twist of this, a molecular of that, unique colors and mixed colors, ice and drink coolers are on the menu!  Glow in the dark, sparkling and changing ice cube additions are elegant and fun. Consider natural personalized holiday drinks.  Let us help you bring on an elegance and inspiration all your own for your wedding, rehearsal, reception and morning after!
Butter Board Dishes

Make Your Wedding Wreaths, Centerpieces, Aisle Decor & Gifts

23 Ice Box Wedding
​Cake Ideas!


Weddings With Attitude

Have a big, bad party with family and friends! There are weddings that follow trends and then there are weddings with attitude, we say. Which will yours be?  Swap traditions one at a time for new elements and unexpected materials. That goes for location, your dress, your alter, your reception, your flowers, have a different, unique experience that will last forever!

Making Greenery
 Table Garlands

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Ketogenic Wedding
​ Dinners & Receptions


Sand Ceremony Ideas 

Your wedding sand ceremony should be meaningful and trendy, something you should customize to match your wedding and your wedding style. It's a new tradition in lieu of unity candles, play with sand not fire!  Your sand ceremony requires colored sand, but who¡¯s the one who decides what you put your sand in? Who decides the color and consistency of your sand? We believe it's YOU and here are some hints and tips from the wedding fairy, PJ! Just like a wedding theme, a wedding venue, there are new and old wedding traditions. Yes, mix them OR NOT! Discovering your wedding style means not having the usual cookie-cutter wedding, it means it's your wedding, it should be your style. If you're low on imagination, we'll take your pulse and you can borrow ours!  Make your wedding unique, make it memorable, make it different from the last wedding you or your guests attended.
Ms. Pamela (PJ) Ott
​ Director of Romance
​Destination Weddings.Travel & Wild Side Destinations

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