Tania's Wedding & Bridesmaid Jewelry

Ok, I know that I just got back from a cruise and you all want me to post about that, right? Well, I want to post about that too, but we need to get caught up first. So, let’s re-wind back to June/July so we can talk about these bad boys for a minute:

Jeremy and I flew out to Durango the first week in July for Tania’s wedding. We also celebrated our anniversary while there. I haven’t been back to Durango in 6 YEARS! It was such a weird feeling to be back in the town that I went to college in. So many memories pretty much every place that I looked. I couldn’t help but spend the entire time reminiscing about all of my Durango friends. I also probably could have spent another week there just to eat at all of my favorite restaurants! Don’t worry, though we made it to Serious Texas not once, but twice! We also drove up to Silverton our last day there and I realized how much I did not appreciate how beautiful that little town was when I lived in Durango. One stop on my must-see list was the college and man, it’s a totally different place! They have completely remodeled the entire college union building – it’s beautiful! Why didn’t they have that when I went there?? Anyway, here is a little montage of our Durango trip (and apparently I was too busy reminiscing to take any pics, these are all from Silverton):

Now, not to mention the actual reason that we went to Durango, Tania’s wedding. For those of you who don’t know, Tania and I met while working together as lab aides/phlebotomists at the hospital.  

Tania has been one of my dearest friends for quite a few years now – you know, 

the kind of friend that you don’t have to talk to for months, 

then you’ll pick up right where you left off with just one phone call. 

The kind of friend that sends you encouraging cards in the mail that have writing not only on both pages inside, but on the back as well. 

She’s the kind of friend that when I met her, she brought me out of a kinda rough time in my life. 

Basically she’s the kind of friend everyone should have. 

So, needless to say, I was ecstatic when she called to tell me that she was getting married and I was even happier when she asked me to be a bridesmaid. So, check out how gorgeous her wedding was:

Anyway, now that you know how beautiful my friend is and what amazing taste she has, you can tell how honored I was when she asked me to make the jewelry for her and for the bridesmaids. I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty new to this jewelry-making stuff, but I learned a lot from this whole experience. Tania asked for bracelets and earrings in yellow for the bridesmaids, and a set in ivory for her. 

Basically what I did was make rosettes from fabric. You can find a million tutorials out there on how to do this, but it’s pretty much just twisting and hot-gluing fabric. Then for the bracelets, I hot-glued the rosettes onto a ribbon. The hardware for all of the jewelry came from Michaels. The bracelet hooks, just clamped onto the ends of the ribbon. However, I didn’t clamp it down quite tight enough and the ends started to come out when we put them on, so I spent the morning of the wedding re-clamping. In hindsight, I should have added some glue inside of the clamp, but you live and learn, right? 

This is the only pic I have of anyone actually WEARING the jewelry

 and I took it after work just to send to Tania to get her approval, 

that's why it's super blurry...

Anyway, since this was for a wedding and she had such a beautiful theme (yellow with black and white damask), I figured that it needed some pretty packaging, so I bought some plain white jewelry boxes from Joann’s, then stamped a chandelier on it and tied it with the same yellow-colored ribbon.

I loved doing this and if you happen to be getting married, or would just like a set, let me know, I’d love to make one for you! Anyway, I’m working on some really fun fall-themed décor tutorials and may have a guest-blogger coming your way. Stay-tuned and as always, thanks so much for your comments, I get giddy every time I see a new one!

Love, Birdie