It's really sweet of Swee to invite us to his wedding at Banyan Tree, Bintan and being uni classmates, I felt I should really make some handmade gift for him.
His wedding gift, a box of handmade chocolate.
In this post, I will be talking about the chocolate box design cos I can't make the chocs yet.
The silver box is from Prints at $5, pretty pricey if you ask me.
One Sunday afternoon, I passed by Raffles' Hotel and I saw this wedding car with the color scheme of gold, white, bright yellow. It struck me that I should use this color(gold, white, yellow) instead of all those blue colors which I thought would fit the theme of a beach wedding, cos the yellow was simply stunning.
I had this idea of a metal heart, maybe made of wire mesh and stuffing some swarovski crystals in it, but very soon I realised that its harder than I thought to find the perfect mesh heart.
So I went to Spotlight at Plaza Singapura in search for:
1. Nautical theme ribbon
2. Metal heart
Initially, I wanted the red,white,blue nautical ribbon + gold solid heart together with white and dark blue ribbons. But the nautical ribbon was sold out at Spotlight!
Alright, plan B then. There was another ribbon..blue, white, blue. Ok this shall be it and I grabbed a pack of metal hearts from another section within Spotlight. Spotlight is now my best friend.
Materials required:
1. Nautical theme ribbon (blue white blue from Spotlight, 2m $2.90)
2. Mesh gold ribbon (from Prints $2.70/m) => 2m required
3. Satin white ribbon (from Prints $2.70/m) => 2m required
4. Plastic silver hearts (from Spotlight $3.xx)
5. Silver box (from Prints $5)
Total packaging cost comes up to about $15(cos I didn't use everything up at one go)
After tying the white and gold ribbons onto the box. Simple, elegant but what about the beach wedding theme that I was trying to achieve?
The special part of the design lies with the nautical ribbon.
I nearly gave up while trying to squeeze the ribbon through the small hole above the heart.
Finally an idea struck me ~_~ : covering the ribbon tip with scotch tape so that its hard and thus easier to poke it through the hole.
The final product.
Since its a wedding, I feel the special heart dangling around the ribbons adds to the lovey dovey feel. Gold, white, silver combination is simply elegant. And lastly, this is a beach wedding and the blue white ribbon represents the beach wedding theme.
I hope Swee will like this gift =)
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