These pinwheel straws are perfect cake-toppers and drink accessories! If you haven’t checked out Love vs. Design Wedding Stationary yet, and you’re a DIY bride, you’re really missing out. I found these great little drink accessories with a printable template, and they’re free!
Pinwheel Straws
Size: 2″ x 2″
A pinwheel adds an instant dose of summer fun to any warm weather party or picnic and with Spring right around the corner, we thought it would be the perfect time to introduce a Pinwheel Printable! For a new spin on the traditional Pinwheel design we’ve scaled it down a bit so that it’s the perfect size to work as a decorative addition to drink stirrers, straws, or cupcake toppers.
Click here to download the free printable template!
Yesterday’s post featured all sorts of magical, whimsical details, and my favorite part was the use of pinwheels featured everywhere – most notably, pinwheels replaced the bridesmaid’s bouquets which I thought was both unique and a fantastic alternative for brides on a budget. Style Me Pretty featured this wonderful tutorial for a slightly more polished pinwheel, created by Hostess with the Mostess. You can get a free printable template here. Use pinwheels as cupcake toppers, boutonnieres, garland and more!
I saw this wedding a few years about on Aubrey Joy‘s website and absolutely had to share. This is the most creative, colourful and whimsical wedding I have ever seen. Originally posted on Style Me Pretty, this is what the bride had to say about her totally unique endeavour in Italy:
Our wedding was a blend of so many images and ideas I had over the course of our year-and-a-half-long engagement. I am not the most decisive person and it took 5 months for us just to decide to have our wedding in Italy! Once that was set, we were able to really concentrate on what was important to us. We knew we wanted a destination wedding and when we pulled up to Podere Ciona in the heart of Chianti, Tuscany in 2010 we knew it was the place. The view over the rolling Tuscan fields, the scent of lavender & rosemary in the air, and the golden light cast by the setting sun on the ancient stones of the family home enchanted us. How could we get our best friends and family to see it? Plan a wedding there! We wanted to create a magical world for our guests. A complete escape in a world of whimsy and imagination. My inspiration? In a teacup! I have a collection of teacups and love their swirls of color and mixture of florals. The teacup became our inspiration for a vintagey garden party set in this gorgeous backdrop.
One of the most important aspects to us was marrying our cultures. From my side, my family is British and Scottish. I absolutely love that my family always shows up to weddings wearing a hat or fascinator so I encouraged guests to follow suit. My bridesmaids and flower girls had the most amazing and whimsical fascinators – it added such a fun touch and made them all look like flowers on a teacup. I was also able to find a bagpiper in Siena to complete my Scottish side. As my husband is Chinese, we payed homage to his culture with a short tea ceremony. It was so important for my family to participate in this tradition because it really felt as if our two families were uniting. My husband and I couldn’t thank our guests enough for traveling so far to Italy. When it came to making our program fans (a hopeful way to beat the heat!), we wrote a fairytale that incorporated how much all our guests, family and wedding party meant to us.
Our amazing decorator collaborated with our florist in Italy – and together they were able to truly transform our meal into a magical fairytale with ribbons, lanterns, and every possible flower in an Italian garden. And, of course, each table was laden with teacup candles and vintage milk jugs brimming with bright florals. Each table had a unique theme from ‘Ancient Roman Garden’ to ‘Flights of Fancy’ to “Tuscan Night’ – guests took turns sitting at each others tables! The best part for us was being in the breathtaking countryside and dancing well into the night with our best friends and family who we still can’t believe made the trek across the Atlantic. We drank champagne, ate gelato and snacked on Italian confetti (candied almonds) as fireflies lit up the trees and the lights of Sienna sparkled in the distance.
