The Handcrafted Wedding: 340 Fun and Imaginative Handmade Ways to Personalize Your Wedding Day;

Bursting with creativity and fun, The Handcrafted Wedding is an idea book with more than 340 concepts, ideas, styles, and projects to take your wedding day from mundane to magnificent. The details are the heart of a wedding and in The Handcrafted Wedding you'll discover how to incorporate the romantic details of your unique story into an event that captures the essence of your relationship. Author Emma Arendoski, owner of the Web site Emmaline Bride, ''the very best handmade wedding items'' is thrilled to share the best wedding ideas, inspirations, and do-it-yourself projects. Sample Ideas include: Stationery: Save-the-date cards do double duty when printed on vintage kitchen towels or delicate handkerchiefs; The Gown: Ask your seamstress to incorporate a pocket into your gown, you won't regret it! It's a perfect place to stow your vows, some mints, or a tube of lipstick; Bouquet: Create a brooch bouquet of inherited or found costume jewelry; mix with fresh or silk flowers. The Handcrafted Wedding redefines the wedding world and reclaims the homemade roots from which it was created; it is a love letter to the independent craft movement.