Wedding Invitation Ornament

The wedding I have been talking about is getting closer and closer and I still have very little idea what to give the couple for a gift. I just made one small part of the gift and will share that but I still need a few more ideas..... any one?


The small gift that I have is a wedding invitation ornament. I saw this for the first time about 2 years ago in a magazine in a dr's office and now it's splattered all over Pinterest. But here ya go in case you haven't seen it yet.


Gather materials: wedding/rehearsal dinner/day after wedding brunch invitation/save the date etc, scissors, pencil and glass ornament.

First you'll want to decide which invitations you want to use. Some are pretty enough just to use the invitation. For this particular wedding the invitation was plain white. While simple is classy and pretty it doesn't add much to these ornaments so I also chose the brunch invitation for some color. Also here's another idea- As soon as I opened their invitation I knew it was too thick to make these ornaments so I just scanned the invitation into my computer and printed it out on some medium thick paper.

And yet another thought....if your life and kids are anything like mine you may end up with to-do lists, doodles and pictures of pirates holding pistols on the backs (or front) of the invitations. Don't worry, I just glued some regular computer paper to the back to cover and just didn't use the parts of the fronts that were drawn on.

Once you have your invitations together, cut them into strips. I decided to cut the colorful part of the brunch invitation and then use "meaningful" lines of the wedding invitation. For example, I cut out the bride and groom's names, the date, year, place and the line that said "at the marriage of her daughter." I left out lines like "reception immediately following" and "black tie optional." I ended up with 13 strips.


Now you curl the strips of paper, one at a time around a pencil. After you are done curling the paper you just push it inside of the clear glass ornament and now you have a beautiful ornament.

I like to curl the paper one at a time and push them in as I finish curling them because that is when the curl is the tightest and pushes in easiest.

If you wait until all are curled before you start pushing in you may need to recurl or bend your pieces a little more. But that's it, put the cap back on and you have a gorgeous gift that will remind the couple of their wedding every year they pull it out.

Psalm 139:13-18- 13 For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb.14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works;that I know very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you,when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. 17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 I try to count them--they are more than the sand; I come to the end--I am still with you.