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Ceremony, DIY + Tutorials, Weddings · August 13, 2020

Wedding Wednesday: DIY Fabric Streamer Ceremony Backdrop

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Remember when my husband and I had our wedding at our house with a budget of $5,000?

One of the best things we DIYed was this fabulous fabric streamer backdrop for our wedding ceremony.

DIY Fabric Streamer Ceremony Backdrop Tutorial

That sucker was at least 20 feet long and a good 15 feet tall at it's highest point.

And it really was a spectacular background for our vows.

Alaskan blogger, Kiss My Tuklle, shares a DIY of the best thing she DIYed for her wedding ceremony - this fabulous fabric streamer backdrop.

I decided to use sheets to save myself a TON of money.

Doing a streamer backdrop with ribbons would have cost me hundreds of dollars.

Doing it with sheets ended up costing me about $10 for the entire project.

SCORE!

Here's how we did it.

Alaskan blogger, Kiss My Tuklle, shares a DIY of the best thing she DIYed for her wedding ceremony - this fabulous fabric streamer backdrop.
How To DIY A $10 Fabric Backdrop For Your Wedding Ceremony

How To DIY A $10 Fabric Backdrop For Your Wedding Ceremony

Yield: One Large Backdrop
Prep Time: 3 hours
Active Time: 1 hour
Additional Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 5 hours
Difficulty: Beginner
Estimated Cost: $10.00

Alaskan blogger, Kiss My Tulle, shares a DIY of the best thing she DIYed for her wedding ceremony - this fabulous fabric streamer backdrop.

Materials

  • Sheets
  • RIT Dye

Tools

  • Scissors
  • Sewing Machine
  • Heavy-Duty Stapler

Instructions

    1. Follow the directions on each dye packet and dye sheets (I did 2 sheets per packet).
    Be sure to do ALL the prepwork (and not just toss them in the washer with the dye).
    That includes wetting the sheets and mixing the dye in hot water with salt.
    Dry.
    2. Use good fabric scissors (or a rotary cutter) to cut sheets into 1"-2" strips.
    I didn't care if this was done perfectly so I just eyeballed it.
    But if perfect strips are important to you then make a template strip out of cardstock and use it as a guide.
    3. Collect all your strips together and sew them.
    My mom did this the week of the wedding and (because ours was SO big) it took her about 3 hours.
    She used one strip of fabric as a foundation and would sew different strips of the fabrics along it (side by side) in an assorted fashion.
    When she ran out of her foundation fabric strip, she would stop a few inches before it ended and sew another foundation strip on.
    Then she'd keep sewing the different strips of the fabrics along it until we had a massive 20 foot stretch of fabric streamers.
    We had a bag full of leftover strips (which came in handy later).
    4. The day before the wedding, my Maid-of-Honor and one of my brothers helped me get the fabric streamer backdrop up on the tree where we were doing the ceremony.
    They used a staple gun to staple the foundation fabric strip along the length of the tree limb.
    This involved lots of climbing along tree branches so I advise y'all to wear pants and shoes.
    5. This is the part were you fill in the gaps. Use the staple gun to adhere strips in wherever there are gaps.
    Then, use the extra fabric strips to fill out the length of the streamers (because mine needed to be so tall - it was too short in many areas and we needed more fabric strips to lengthen it) by tying the extra fabric strips on to the short parts.
    This is boring, by the way.
    Use scissors to trim along the bottom of the backdrop.
    6. Um. This is the step that all my wedding planner friends told me to do and I didn't.
    AND WE SHOULD HAVE. Moral of the story?
    LISTEN TO YOUR WEDDING PLANNER.
    They know from which they speak.
    What everyone told us to do was to hot gun small weights (pennies, nuts, fishing weights) to the bottom of each streamer.
    That stops it from doing this:

Did you make this project?

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© Cris
Project Type: Craft / Category: Ceremony

Would you make a wedding streamer backdrop for your wedding?

Alaskan blogger, Kiss My Tuklle, shares a DIY of the best thing she DIYed for her wedding ceremony - this fabulous fabric streamer backdrop.

Posted In: Ceremony, DIY + Tutorials, Weddings · Tagged: ceremony, DIY, Handmade, weddings

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Comments

  1. Elizabeth | Bridal Musings says

    October 18, 2012 at 6:41 am

    That is one incredible DIY! What an amazing backdrop ~ I love that it seems like part of the tree. Such a good idea to use sheets, buying ribbons in bulk is sooo expensive!

    Reply
  2. Layla Mayville says

    October 26, 2012 at 5:18 am

    The streamers turned out amazing! Thanks for the tip about gluing the weights 😉

    Reply

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