my bridesmaid boxes

I'm sure all of my regular readers know that over Thanksgiving my most wonderful man proposed to me in Carlisle. And if you know me at all, you know that I was really excited and looking forward to this happening! Since we live in Texas right now the only thing I've been sure about are my beautiful bridesmaids. I knew before Evan asked who they would be and I wanted to ask them in the most special way I could think of. It took me a little more than a month to put them together and hand them out to each girl but it was so exciting and made everything seem more real.

I bought small wooden boxes at Michael's. I took them all apart and painted them yellow. They already came with the super cool chalkboard lids so it was perfect to write each girl's name with chalk.

I lined each box with grey fabrics and bunting on the lids. I love bunting!

I made small squares that I embroidered with "Will you be my bridesmaid/maid of honor?" and put a binding on them. I filled each box with a few of my favorite things and their favorite things so each box was made for each lady.

I got paint sample squares in grey and yellow and included them too. (those are my colors for the wedding!)

each piece of the box was tied up in twine and had a tiny sign on it.

I also made 6 of these little coin purses (1 for me too) and put 1 in each box so we all have one thing alike.

And this is how it looked when they opened their box. All packaged up with the little sign on top.

It was SO fun for me to make these and hand them to each of my special ladies. It's just the start of all my DIY wedding plans! I'll be sure to post more when planning really gets going.