Comic Themed Wedding

Okay, so after spending months on Pinterest and other craft sites gathering ideas, I figured I should give back a little. Here is a rundown of my husband and I's comic themed wedding:

First of all, it was a small affair (well, small for our huge families). There were less than 175 people and nearly 1/3 of them were children under 12.  We also really just wanted our day to be fun. May a recommend, you start way earlier than I did at three months prior to the wedding. :) Also, my husband has two daughters and is a full time student. Needless to say, spending the equivalent of a down payment on a house seemed extremely frivolous. I didn't care to pay thousands of dollars for flowers that were just going to die, nor did I desire to spend hours on photos documenting every little thing that occurred. I really wanted to just be in the moment of marrying the man of my dreams. With that being said...


Here is a quick look at the highlights of our attire.

•  The shoes in the top left are mine. I found the idea on pinterest. I did spend hours cutting and using mod podge to apply old (unwanted) comics to them. I loved them, but they did fall apart at the end of the evening. I think I applied it to thick. 
• My hubby wore his new favorite shoes, his Spidey Vans. In fact, his whole attire was Spidey. We ordered him a tie from eBay, the buckle was found online too, and I made the boutonnieres and the tie clips. 
• The boutonnieres were simply figured that I wrapped one leg with ribbon like a floral boutonniere and added baby's breath to the back. You can see my dad had Wolverine. He got the Avengers tie simply because we didn't find any Wolverine ties that we liked.
• The tie clips were from a kit on Etsy. It was a simple print, punch circle, glue to glass bead, glue together project. Again, I should have taken a photo of all of them. One groomsman decided he wanted Aquaman and the other wanted Thor.

The Decorations/Small Touches

• Batman and Bride cake toppers. I had an old Barbie wedding ornament that I clipped the hanger off of the top. The Batman is an old toy from my hubby. Next time, I would have primed first, but they held together very nicely. I bought a crome spray paint from Hobby Lobby and simply sprayed them. The veil was already on the doll, so I just pulled it off prior to painting and glued it back on when it was dry.
• I made my own fake flower bouquet. I really loved them. It was my sister's genius idea to get comic book fabric for the wraps. Then, to not make them so eye catching, I wrapped tulle over the top and crisscrossed with ribbon. Mine was with white, the bridesmaids bouquets were overlayed with black tulle and ribbon.
• Spiderman was an awesome find at our local comic book store. I gave him a bowtie, top hat and bouquet. His base was made from the top of hubby's old Marvel game box. The front of it stated "Please Sign Our Guestbook" (printed from my computer. Voila! Guest book attendant that isn't bored.
• I made the second option cake toppers as Captain America and a bride matching my hair and dress. I painted these myself, borrowing a little bit of the design from a few etsy shops that wanted $50 for a pair. Yeah... I probably bought these wood dolls for about a quarter a piece. I loved them, but they looked too small on the cake topper.
• The middle photo is the top of my wedding invitations. I bought a box of 100 invites for less than $25 from Michaels (using a coupon). Using more unwanted comics, I punched out circles using a 1" circle punch. Then, I printed out a 'monogram' H (my new last name starts with H) and punched it out with a 3/4" circle punch. Printed invitations, glued circles together, glued to invite, punched holes for ribbon, laced them and DONE! I loved that they were simple, yet went with our theme.
• My garter: Bought a $3 garter at a craft store. The bling batman was from a Hot Topic necklace. A little stitching through the hole at the top, add a bow and I had a fantastic garter.
• I also scattered the tables with chocolate kisses that had hero symbols on the bottom. By printing circular symbols and punching with the 3/4 circle punch, I was able to simply adhere them with glue dots. A really simple process!

• The piece de resistance. My centerpieces. I'm sad I didn't really get a good photo of them on the tables. I spend hours making comic book origami flowers, then dusting them with glitter. Then, hours were spend making tissues paper flowers. All of these were glue to floral wire, bundled into bouquets and wrapped with felt (to hide the ugly wire bunch). Each vase had glass beads, a floral light in the beads, a comic book character in the base, and comic themed glitter masquerade masks (most were comic themed, some were just bright masks). I used kitchen skewers for the mask posts. I LOVED how these turned out. Here are a few more pics:

 

 To top it all off, we had a kids table filled with comic book coloring books, hero stickers, foam "pow" shaped bubbles they could decorate with more foam stickers. (Target used to sell a box of hero foam stickers.

Even our DJ got into it. He wore a light up arc reactor under his dress shirt. All in all, it was amazing! By the end of the night, my hubby's adult male cousins had stripped out the characters from the centerpieces, a few kids had the symbols from the kisses glue dotted to them, Everyone was loving playing with the masks, and several people took home the paper flower bouquets. But then again, what was I going to do with 20 of them?

If anyone stumbles on this and would like to copy a few of my ideas, I might be able to send you a few mask patterns and links to the flowers and such.