Wedding craft #1

I'm working on getting all my wedding decorations set for my wedding next June - yay!!! My fiancé and I have decided on a literary theme wedding because we both love to read, and actually spend many weekend mornings happily curled up in bed or on the couch with good books! I've realized I also love theme weddings because then it gives you a focus for all decorations and other ideas. I see hundreds of cute wedding ideas on Pinterestbut if they aren't literary theme I can just scroll by them! 

Anyway, back to crafting. 

I wanted candles on my tables to add mood lighting/romance to each table (plus candles just seem like something you include for wedding decorations) but how to make candles literary? Apart from buying candles that smell like books, yes, those exist, I decided to make the candle votives themselves literary. 

My mom scoured a variety of thrift shops for small glasses (I didn't care that they didn't all match) and when I visited MN in October to go dress shopping, I also spent a day decorating all of the glass votives. I took my Modge podge and my falling apart copy of Pride & Prejudice and coated each class with the book pages to make literary votive holders! 

Step 1: get glasses (if you have some time and don't care if they match then I recommend hunting thrift stores, but if you want them to match IKEA or a wedding consignment store might have some) 

Step 2: get your Modge Podge and a brush - I used a stain brush because it's what my parents had

Step 3: apply Modge Podge 

Step 4: apply paper 

Step 5: coat entire thing with Modge Podge 

Step 6: let dry! 

Optional step 7: go back to do an additional coating of Modge Podge 

You could easily adopt this to use tissue paper in your event colors or some other lightly colored paper! Just make sure the paper isn't too heavy or you won't get much "glow"

Have you made anything crafty lately?