By the time I came to orders of service, I was well and truly on the handmade wedding train, with no thoughts of getting off.
Depending on how many guests you have coming to your ceremony, this one could be pretty heavy-lifting to tackle alone – even though it’s not hard, tying 100 bits of ribbon, sticking 400 bits of doily etc. is not a task you can polish off in a couple of hours single-handed.
Call in the bridesmaids! Luckily, they were also up for some wedding crafting, and came round for an afternoon of tea, prosecco, snacks and order of services. It’s worth mentioning at this point that my original design proposal (something like sticking the doily in the middle of the piece of card) was met with complete mockery from my lovely friends, who happen to be much more genuinely artistic than me. So I can’t actually take very much credit for this design at all!
What we used:
1) A4 Kraft Brown Premium Card from Hobbycraft (or something similar)
2) Mini paper doilies (also Hobbycraft)
3) Mixed scrapbooking card with rustic patterns (Hobbycraft)
4) Cream card
5) Sharpie pen or similar
6) Selection of ribbon and twine to match your colour scheme
7) Holepunch, scissors and Pritt Stick
8) Print-outs of your actual order of service to go inside
What we did:
Note – there are lots of separate tasks that need repeating here, so running it like an assembly line is very effective!
1) Folded the Kraft Brown card in half to make an A5 card
2) Cut the doilies into quarters, and stick them in each corner on the front of the card
3) Cut the cream card into small rectangles, and get your friend with the nicest handwriting (or you, if you back yourself) to do the ‘Order of Service’ wording onto this. Also cut the scrapbooking card into even smaller rectangles, and get the same person to do your intial (K&R in our case) to stick on the back
4) Once the neat handwriter has done their thing, back the cream rectangles onto the patterned scrap-booking card, and stick this onto the front of the main card, pretty much in the centre
5) Stick the initials card onto the back of the main card
6) Put your printed orders of service inside the sleeve, and do a half hole-punch on the side (i.e. you want the hole to be a full circle when you open the booklet up)
7) Tie through the ribbons, mixing up different strands of colour
Great for some bridesmaid bonding, but not one to rush. Special credit also goes to my Mum on this, who tag-teamed in to support on the ribbon tying, when I left this part until about two days before the wedding.
Craft it like Katie 
Cute!!
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