Take some pretty lace handkerchiefs, fold and pin them over a cord and you have instant bunting!
Try asking your relations (grannies/ grandads/aunties/uncles) if they have any spare handkerchiefs hiding in a drawer. This will make the bunting extra special, as the handkerchiefs often have initials embroidered on the corner and so it will be like members of your family waving all through the wedding day! Alternatively try buying hankies at vintage stalls or second hand shops.
To continue the initial theme, you can also personalise some of the plainer hankies for yourself with a Romantic Type wedding logo www.romantictype.co.uk. Apply your logo using iron-on transfer (see method in previous blog).
If you don’t mind cutting the hankies in half it will make them go further. Instead of pinning you can hand or machine sew, apply adhesive ‘hem’ tape or fabric glue. ‘Piping cord’ is an economical way to string them along.
This style of retro bunting will fulfil the old rhyme – especially if you add a bit of blue colour:
“Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”.
After the wedding, the bunting can be used to decorate your home or saved and brought out for your Wedding Anniversary. Alternatively it can be deconstructed and the hankies returned to their original use – that’s part of the beauty of pinning them!
