Wedding Arch

Hello Hello,

I just wanted to take a second and update everyone following this post with a few pictures of the arch from my wedding!

 Here in this picture you will see a chain with two locks locked onto it. Well instead of doing a unity candle or the unity sand we decided to do something a little different.
We had our names engraved on a pad lock to represent us as individuals. Then I got a chain that represented God and we intertwined our locks together and then through the chain to represent the trinity. After that Tony took the keys and tossed them into the river to never been seen again.

Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Below is the original post on how to build this beauty!!!

                                                                                                                                

Hello all,

So my wedding is this weekend and I am so excited! I just wanted to share with y'all how a 30 year old man who seems to really be 12, a father of the bride who says crick instead of creek, a stressed out bride, and two Nana's (my mother and step mom) could all put together the most amazing wedding arch I have ever laid eyes on. This project was incredibly easy just a little time consuming due to the fact of building it 4 hours from my home.

We started it the weekend of July 4th with my fiance and father trekking out into the woods to find some fallen timber. Once they brought it back I showed them a few pictures of what I like and they got to work with screwing the posts together.

I chose the front piece because of how it curved and just looked very unique. The boys had to put some cross pieces to try and stabilize the structure. No worries though, once the cross pieces were put in that thing was not moving. 

And boom it's that easy to put it together, if these two guys could do it than anyone could.

Also my Dad had a few pallets laying around that we used. I really liked the look of the weathered wood up against the natural wood.

After the, now men, finished the task of building it, my mother, step-mother, and I had the task of finishing it. I went to my local Hobby Lobby, or any craft store around you, and picked out some very beautiful fall inspired artificial flowers. This was the only expense of making this arch and came out to be around $75. Now to attach everything we used the small zip ties and placed them so you wouldn't be able to see them. If any zip ties were visible then I would wrap twine around the stems to make it look like they were tied on.

See super easy!!!

I also have made burlap runners, cake plates, my flower girls tutu, hillbilly wine glasses, and a few other things for my wedding. Hopefully after the wedding I will be able to do some more tutorials. In all honesty it's really nice to make your own items for your wedding because to me it makes it more personal.

Hope everyone has an AMAZING weekend..... I am going to get hitched.

Talk to you later,

Olivia