my november heidzilla bride to be lauren recently teamed up with my june (two weeks!!) heidzilla bride to be tara to develop custom aisle runners. lauren wrote a great how-to on her wedding blog “all the little details” and is letting me share it with all the heidzillas readers :) great job lauren and tara! and thanks again lauren :)
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So a couple weeks back, my fellow bride-to-be friend Tara and I decided that we were going to take a try at DIY painting our monograms on our aisle runners. If you are thinking about doing this, I would highly suggest it. It was not hard – just really time consuming, but totally worth it.
Step 1: Purchase a premade aisle runner or purchase fabric to use. We purchased our premade aisle runners at Pat Catan’s for $25. Also purchase fabric paint. We got our at JoAnn Fabrics.
Step 2: Get monogram enlarged to the size you want it to be painted on the aisle runner.
Step 3: Roll aisle runner out and determine where you want your monogram placed on it. I designed mine to go in the back of the church where the pews start. My aisle runner has to be placed before the ceremony and pinned to the floor (church’s rule) so I decided that would be the best place for it. Tara is allowed to roll hers out right before she walks down the aisle so she decided to flip the monogram so when people walked out it would be right side up.
Step 4: Place printed monogram under the aisle runner.
Step 7: Once traced, use fabric paint to paint your monogram onto the aisle runner.
Step 8: Let monogram dry, and repeat painting if needed.
The finished products: (at least finished for right now, I bet both of us will be obsessing over touching them up!)
I would recommend doing this to anyone who is considering it. It wasn’t as hard as we thought, just time consuming. In the end it was totally worth it!
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looking forward to seeing the end product on your wedding day!
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