Marquee Bunting

I'm having a marquee wedding and making my own bunting.

Since we got engaged, 1 1/2 years ago I've gotten everybody to collect material in our colours, mostly duvets from charity shops, and I'm still making the stuff!

It's pretty easy but time consuming.

I've got a wedding planner and decorator people with the venue.

We're decorating a village hall, so I'm currently making my own using various material that I have collected. I have found these intructions really useful

http://www.myhomemadehappy.com/tutorial-how-to-make-bunting/

I would recommend use a larger triangle pattern than suggested as they turn out quite small.

I am doing bunting for my marquee. Borrowed MIL sewing machine and finding it pretty simple. Got a lot to make though but figure as long as make some each week will get there. I've bought my fabric off ebay and think will prob come to c£60 by time am done. Aiming for 100m of bunting.

Have bought pinking shears, material, binding to link the flags. Chosen 4 fabrics, and got 4m of each, double sided flags and can get c. 20 flags from each metre. I basically bought a test metre and calculated how many flags could make and then how many metres those flags make.

There is a website called bunting queen which has a bunting calculator which says how many metres you would need depending on how you hang it!

Get the guests to make it!

For a friends wedding, we each got a triangle of bunting sent with the invite. The instructions were to use it as a guest book of sorts & decorate in any way we wanted. We then brought them on the wedding day & they were all put across the 2 doors, pegged up.

Some had just be written on in felt pen, others have been embroided, some were glittery & had things glues on. It made for a unique thing that fitted her weddind theme well & she has it put up in a room in their home now.

Wow love this idea! how cute!

Hi,

My daughter is making bunting for her sister`s wedding next month. It is Alice so she is using felt and cutting the suits of playing cards and stitching it onto ribbon. You could cut it out and use wonder web to iron it to ribbon to avoid stitching if you prefer.

Hope that helps

lynne