Manolo for the Brides

Now that my lovely daughter Paloma is nine months old, I’ve been thinking a lot about DIY decoration ideas. What do these two seemingly disparate things have to do with one another? It’s simple. The Beard and I have been contemplating ideas for Paloma first birthday party, which means that I’ve been reviewing all kinds of neat DIY decorations that happen to be as appropriate for weddings as they are for birthdays.

One thing I’m loving right now is printable cupcake wrappers from Paper & Cake. That’s right, printable. As long as the bride or grooms owns or has access to a good printer, they can pay a little and get a lot since they can print out as many cupcake wrappers as they like, forever. Plus, the bride and groom can get away with serving cupcakes that are far less fancily iced because the cupcake wrapper is providing the color.

Printable cupcake wrappers could be great for the DIY bride who would rather handle her wedding sweets herself than pay a baker to create something for her. Though the instructions recommend wrapping undecorated cupcakes and then frosting them, I can’t see that surrounding an already-decorated cake with a cupcake wrapper could do all that much harm other than flatten the icing a bit on the sides. And at $4 per printable pattern (or $10 for a selection of three cupcake wrappers) it’s an easy way for brides and grooms to customize their cupcakes… er, provided that one of Paper & Cake’s cupcake wrapper designs works with their wedding theme or color scheme. For those who can’t find a match, I found a free DIY cupcake wrapper tutorial that lets you use any pattern you want. Enjoy!

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