This little blog being a new endeavor, I just wanted to show some of the money saving projects my husband and I did for our wedding this past October. I'll start with what I believe was Alan's favorite: These Tealight Luminaries (originally from candletech.com). All you basically need is any candles (we got "Emergency Candles" at the dollar tree) and some balloons. Also, a double boiler would of helped, but being as we do not have one of those, we grabbed a coffee tin, put it on top of some cookies cutters to elevate it in the pot of boiling water below. I would not recommend it, but it did work.
Pull the wicks out of the candles if possible, and place in double boiler to melt. Once melted, fill balloons with enough water to make it more of a sphere than an oval. Or whatever you want it to look like, that's just what we did. Once filled, dip it into the wax, pull it out, wait 10-30 seconds and then dip it again. Repeat this until you get the desired thickness. For us it was about 5 times a luminary. I don't think you have to worry about hitting the sides. We were always nervous but the balloons never popped.
Feel free to ridicule our wallpaper! I hate it too. But we're renters, so we'll take what we can get. After a while you'll get a bunch of wax covered balloons like this:
Once they've fully cooled, poke a hole in the top of the balloon, and let the water slowly drain out (or pop vigorously and deal with the mess that ensues, like we did.) Once empty, we did re-melt the edges to make a straight line by running it along a hot surface (a frying pan covered in foil worked for us). And this is our finished product!
Please make sure you use the the battery operated tealights! Real ones will melt the luminary, it is made of wax! More extraordinarily late wedding posts to follow!
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