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15 Pretty Painted Projects for Personalizing Your Wedding Day

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From the invitations to the favors, these how-tos use strokes of genius to bring together your party details.

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You don't have to be a great artist to master these DIY ideas for your celebration. Here, we show the chicest (and simplest) ways to paint your day-of details, even if your skill level is more pre-K than Pre-Raphaelite.

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Brushed With Greatness

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Make These Brushstroke Wedding Invitations

These white envelopes got an instant upgrade with just two strokes of craft paint. The technique is so quick and easy that you can even use it on invites—without feeling like you'll screw them up! For sheer coverage that lets the text remain visible, choose a light shade and wet the brush first.

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Arty Accents

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Make These Painted Silk Wedding Bouquet Ribbons

Adding a touch of paint to fashion and décor items not only beautifies them, it also makes each one of a kind. First, to transform an inexpensive slipcover into VIP seating, draw a soft, dashed pattern using a refillable paint marker that's filled with multi-surface paint. Post-wedding, give it a spot in your home. Second, create a unique tie for your bouquet by swiping fabric paint across a square of crepe de chine, then cutting the fabric on the bias.

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Surprising Soles

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Make These Painted-Sole Bridesmaids Heels

Even inexpensive neutral-toned pumps can channel a brighter color in your palette (use two coats of paint on the soles). Your friends will look great coming—and going.

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Tip Touch

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Make These Painted-Toe Flower Girl Flats

Cap off your littlest attendant's flats with a flash of leather paint in your color scheme. Pro tip: A strip of painters' tape helps you stay inside the lines.

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Painterly Surroundings

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A subtle wash of color has a dramatic impact on tabletop objects, offering a pleasant contrast to neutral place settings and cloths. Start with place cards that double as napkin rings: Download our editable clip art, then liven up each personalized band with a quick, watery brush of acrylic paint.

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Center of Attention

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Make These Painted Flower Bud Vases

Turn a grouping of vessels palette-friendly by swirling transparent glass paint onto the bottom of each.

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Lovely Linens

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Make a Watercolored Table Runner and Napkins

Take a linen runner and napkins from basic to beautiful with a few broad strokes of fabric paint.

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Strokes of Genius

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From stenciled seating assignments to color-splashed favors, use your own wedding shades to personalize day-of details. 

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"Cheersful" Favors

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Download the Free Labels

For a refreshing start, consider providing mini bottles of rosé cider, which are made even more inviting when given labels customized with a blush stripe. 

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Painted by Numbers

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Make These Painted Brushstroke Table Numbers

To create table numbers, place a numeral sticker on a card and crisscross over it with a wide brush. Once the paint dries, remove the sticker to reveal the relevant digits.

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Seal the Deal

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Make These Painted Brushstroke Sticker Seals

Easiest. Idea. Ever. Run a 1 1/2-inch bristle brush back and forth over an entire sheet of circle stickers, then use the adhesives to adorn a sleeve of takeaway macarons.

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Make These Painted Matchbox Wrappers

Similarly awesome: Apply dots, splatters, or swipes to sheets of paper, and cut to fit a box of matches. 

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Too-Cute To-Go Tins

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Make These Paint-Splattered To-Go Tins

Use the same technique to cover cylindrical favor tins, which get a fun finish from our free "XO" sticker clip art.

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Pretty Pouches

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Make These Painted Pouches

Personalize clutches for your bridesmaids with painters' tape and letter stickers.

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