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Mari & Kyle - Salvo, North Carolina

A beautiful DIY Beach Vintage Wedding submitted to DIYwedding.org by the Bride Mari Foster. Mari tells us about how they arranged their gorgeous wedding on a limited budget.

Mari & Kyle's Gorgeous DIY Beach Vintage Style Wedding
DIY Beach Vintage Style Wedding
Unique and Charming DIY Details!
Mari and Kyle's beautiful DIY wedding day!

 

The Bride: Mari Foster, 22, Artist
The Groom: Kyle Foster, 23, Engineer
The Date: 06-13-2009
Honeymoon: 5 weeks in Europe


Type of Wedding: DIY Beach Vintage Wedding
Location: Salvo, North Carolina

Photographer: Sarah Knowlton

The bride says: Kyle and I met my first week of college and began dating in November that year, and married 3 1/2 years later! We had a limited budget so we tried to do a lot of the work ourselves, including designing the invitations, my dress, and personal touches for our big day.

Our invitations cost us less than $100 to make. I designed them, and we used a couple card/envelope sets on sale at Target for $9 each. For the outer part of the invite I ordered blue linen textured paper from a store online.
We printed off all the addresses on the envelopes and all the interiors on our own printer and saved a lot of money, and we are still getting compliments from people we invited on how beautiful the invites came out!

My dress was my mother's, which was a replica of my Grandmother's dress which I then had reconstructed into a summer dress based on my own design.

We were able to take it back to the same seamstress who made it for my mom, she operates out of Cibolo, Texas, a tiny town my mom grew up in just outside of San Antonio. For about $500, I got a completely custom made dress that was both beautiful and sentimental.

My mom and bridesmaids put together all the hydrangea arrangements in mason jars, and wrapped their bouquets in ribbon (mine was done by family friends who are florists). I also made mustaches on sticks for our DIY photobooth setup.

We had a huge amount of help from my loving family and all our friends to make our wedding such an intimate and special day!

Photos by: sknow design
Website: www.sknowdesign.com

Mette Morgan

Mette Morgan

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Mari2012-02-13 23:19#14
Quoting Kelly Gober:
Do you remember what color paper it was? It's hard to tell the color online. Thanks!!!



The paper is called Haviland Blue, its a very light blue. I noted it a few comments down with a link to the exact paper I used.
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Kelly Gober2012-02-13 23:03#13
Do you remember what color paper it was? It's hard to tell the color online. Thanks!!!
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Mari Foster2011-11-10 13:34#12
PS. The other font is Book Antiqua!
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Mari Foster2011-11-10 13:33#11
Quoting Cait:
So in love with your invitations! Where did you find the fonts/ template for the invitation? What program did you design the invitations in? I am not very design savvy and looking for any helpful hints! Thank you!!


Thank you!

The font is Albemarle Swash, i downloaded it free off some site. (just google it!)
The rest I designed myself in Publisher, I believe!
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Cait2011-11-10 03:14#10
So in love with your invitations! Where did you find the fonts/ template for the invitation? What program did you design the invitations in? I am not very design savvy and looking for any helpful hints! Thank you!!
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Mari2011-07-18 17:14#9
Quoting Kelly M:
I love your invites! I'm having a hard time finding the linen textured paper. Do you remember the website you got it off from?


Thanks! I got it from here in Haviland Blue!: http://www.paper-papers.com/Neenah-CLASSIC-LINEN-85-x-11-Paper-24lb-Writing-500-PK.html

Dorothy -My bridesmaids were all in different states, so I chose paint swatches in the colors we wanted, and sent each bridesmaid a paint swatch and a "sundress- length" guideline and let them each choose their own dress! They all ran them by my before they purchased them and the first time i saw them all together was the week of the wedding, they did a fabulous job! I made coordinating pearl necklaces for each of them to wear day-of and as you can see they all looked beautiful!
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Dorothy2011-07-17 06:21#8
Mari,

I really love your bridesmaids dresses. How did you coordinate the colors so well? Did you choose dresses together, choose for them, or just give guidelines? Your pictures are beautiful! Congrats to you and your new hubby :) I wish you two a lifetime of happiness together.

Best,
Dorothy
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Kelly M2011-06-21 00:49#7
I love your invites! I'm having a hard time finding the linen textured paper. Do you remember the website you got it off from?
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Mari Foster2011-04-16 01:04#6
Quoting kelly gober:
Ok so i am new to the scrapbooking and how did you get the lil lace detail on the invites? if there is a step by step that would be AWESOME and super appreciated!!



Kelly- I used this punch that you can find at several stores, I got mine at Target.: http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_SPM1777233301P?sid=IDx20101019x00001a&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=SPM1851153103

and a basic corner rounding punch! Simple as that :)
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kelly gober2011-04-15 17:01#5
Ok so i am new to the scrapbooking and how did you get the lil lace detail on the invites? if there is a step by step that would be AWESOME and super appreciated!!
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Mari Foster2011-02-25 15:49#4
Help Kyle and I get a free spring photo session with our wedding photographer, Sarah Knowlton of sknow Photo and Design; and help her reach 500 facebook fans by the end of Feb by liking her fan page and saying I sent you!! She's awesome, you should be a fan!

sknow Photo and Design
https://www.facebook.com/pages/sknow-photodesign/102973754477
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Susie DiCarlo2011-02-24 03:28#3
Beautiful wedding in a gorgeous setting!
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Mari Foster2011-02-23 14:14#2
Sorry her link didn't work: http://sknowdesign.com/ SKnow Photography and Design
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Mari Foster2011-02-23 14:09#1
Thanks so much for featuring our budget wedding! It means a lot!
Our Photographer, Sarah's website is www.sknowdesign.com !


Also visit me at my blog, Mari Makes - themarimakes.blogspot.com
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