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.
Create a Pretty DIY Fabric Streamer Wedding Ceremony Backdrop
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.
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.
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Create a Pretty DIY Fabric Streamer Wedding Ceremony Backdrop
Make a budget-friendly fabric streamer ceremony backdrop for your wedding. Get the step-by-step guide to creating a stunning DIY backdrop.
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:
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Elizabeth | Bridal Musings says
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!
Layla Mayville says
The streamers turned out amazing! Thanks for the tip about gluing the weights 😉