Your Do It Yourself
Wedding Ideas
You can shave heaps off your budget if you have a do it yourself wedding. Not all aspects of your wedding have to be DIY, but there are some fairly big ways that you can save money. From cake baking to making your own wedding invitations, you can easily save thousands.
Get inspiration now with these do it yourself projects >>>
Brides are beginning to cotton on to this and in a recent survey** by Cheap Wedding Success, over 65% are saving money by doing things themselves.
Wedding invitations, decorations, table centrepieces, favours, flowers and cakes - I want to see what you’re all making.
So, submit your photos and instructions of your do it yourself wedding project below, and be an inspiration to other brides
Submission Tips and Guidelines
- You must submit IDEAS & PHOTOS.
- You can enter as many submissions as you like as long as they're all individual and your own ideas.
- Photos bring your project to life and add a personal twist to your submission. They need to be under 1MB and your original photo (or a friends).
- DIY projects must be your own ideas and not copied from any other source.
- Write your submission in a Word Doc and then copy and paste into the form here. It'll make it easier than typing straight into the form.
- The sharing of ideas is for brides not businesses. If you're a business and want to sell your products or services on this site, please see our advertising pages.
Submit Your Do It Yourself Wedding Project
Tell me all about your wedding project. I'm looking for details on:
- what you did
- why you did it
- how you did it
- where you got your inspriation
- how much you saved
- any tips you have
- and of course, photos of your project!
I'd love to see wedding invitations that you've made, cakes, decorations, flowers, table centrepieces - anything really, as long as its a DIY wedding project!
Other Brides DIY Wedding Projects
Click below to see do it yourself wedding projects from other brides...
Homemade Bunting
For our wedding, I decided to make my own bunting. I ended up making about 200 metres of chintzy bunting to decorate inside and outside the hall where ...
Homemade Wedding Cake
All my mates have done some DIY for their wedding in some way or another, and we have all helped each other out.
Kathy was the first to choose to have ...
DIY Cliff Top Wedding Devon - Beach Theme - Updated
We wanted to get married on or near the beach and as we both love Devon and have some family down there so it seemed the obvious choice. We also wanted ...
Lovely Low Cost Wedding
We recently had a fantastic low cost wedding all done on a tiny budget . We live in Spain but had the ceremony in Gibraltar. We only invited 19 guests ...
DIY Wedding Cupcakes
I have decided on baking and decorating 170 individual cup cakes for my wedding reception as an alternative to a wedding cake, as I can't afford £300 ...
Simple, Stunning Wedding Cake
We had a very tight budget of £3k for my wedding so I wanted to cut costs on the little things. My friend is on a cake decorating course, so I kindly ...
Crystal Centrepiece
I made centrepieces for all the tables at the my wedding. I didn't want traditional flowers at my wedding and instead, I opted for the bouquets and ...
Home Made Wedding Favours
We made these favours for my upcoming wedding. We made approx 56 of them and the total cost was around £16.
We bought netting, ribbon and wire flowers ...
Wedding Dress, Bridesmaids and Attendants - WINNER!
I found that Vogue did a designer pattern that I really liked and so did the bridesmaids . They still do it too! I've made clothes for years, including ...
Wedding Cake
Just prior to getting engaged, I’d made a novelty birthday cake for my boyfriend, and had a lot of fun doing it. I decided it looked a bit iffy in places ...
Oriental Wedding Stationery
I am having an Oriental themed wedding, inspired by my Nan who was half Malaysian and is unfortunately no longer with us.
It is not easy getting items ...
DIY Table Centrepieces
My husband-to-be has hayfever and won't hold up too well around a big lush bouquet, so my bridesmaids and I are having silk bouquets which we're going ...
DIY Wedding Invitations With Paper Roses
I wanted to make my own wedding invitations as they're really expensive in the shops and I knew I could create invites that are just as pretty.
I'...
Tin Can Punchware Lanterns
These are a great way of having candles at your wedding that is dirt cheap, eco-friendly and dead easy.
Just collect some food cans, keep the base ...
"Save The Date" Fridge Magnets
I got an idea off the internet (fridge magnet) for my 'save the date' cards, so I copied it. I got some blank fridge magnets quite cheaply and printed ...
My Own Wedding Invites!
I was looking for wedding invitations for ages, but I either couldn't find what I wanted, they were all either really elegant or cutesy, or they worked ...
Wallet Invitation with Rhinestone Buckle and Ribbon
These are the invites I created using a wallet invitation, ribbon and rhinestone buckles. My wedding colour is purple so I changed the ribbon to match ...
Bon Bon Favour Cone
These favour cones are really easy to make and very cheap too! You literally get a piece of A6 paper, roll it into a cone and secure it with glue.
I ...
Wedding Invites, Order of Service and Place Cards
We wanted invitations to reflect us and be individual, so we decided to use a scan of a watercolour painting we have of our cat sitting in colourful flowers ...
How I Made and Decorated My Own Wedding Cake
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I decided to make my daughter's wedding cake. Victoria wanted a very simple, elegant wedding cake – "nothing fancy". So we started the task four months ...
Tips For Cheap Favour Boxes, Favour Bags And Stationery
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For my wedding, I really needed to keep the cost of day to a minimum. I knew what things and style I wanted but after a lot of searching I just couldn’...
Cheap Wedding Centrepieces and Favours
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I saw this at a friend's wedding and thought it was fab! Get cheap glass vase's for £1.50 from Ikea and fill with coloured retro sweets.
The wedding ...
Cake Ball Fiasco
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Me and my fiancee aren't getting married until June of 2010, but we wanted to start experimenting with what kind of food to serve at our wedding since ...
Name Place Cards - Recycled!
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I made pretty name place cards by using the picture-side of pretty, old birthday cards, guillotining them into the right size, then hole punching one end ...
5* Med Wed For Less Than £3000
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I got married in Malta two weeks ago and it was a fantastic and truly memorable occasion! it involved a ceremony in a historic location followed by a champagne ...
Floral Centrepieces, Corsages and Buttonholes
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The main floral bouquets and church arrangements were done by a professional florist, but the table flower arrangements and other flowers were done ...
Easy Favour Bags
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I am making my own favour bags . My wedding theme is black and white and I am making my own favours by using a sheet of black netting, a sheet of white ...
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**Survey conducted Mar-Apr 2008 with 366 respondants
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