15 Ideas for Using a Cricut Machine to Personalize Your Wedding
December 06, 2016
Weddings and personal details go together like the world’s best peanut butter and jelly sandwich. From favors and signage to lawn games and thoughtful finishing touches, couples are always looking for meaningful ways to reflect their personalities and interests on a day shared with the people they love most. That’s exactly why discovering the magic of Cricut was such a game changer for us. A Cricut machine makes it easy to personalize so much more than vinyl — think felt, balsa wood, envelope addressing, and beyond. In partnership with Cricut, we’ve rounded up our favorite (and most approachable) Cricut wedding ideas to help you take your personalization to the next level.
Which Cricut machine should I buy for my wedding DIY projects?
When it comes to planning a wedding, DIY projects can save money and add a personal touch. For weddings, we love Cricut Joy Xtra, Explore family, and Maker family machines, but for very different reasons.
If you want the most versatility, a Cricut Maker family machine is the best choice for wedding projects. It can cut a wide variety of materials, including fabric, leather, and balsa wood, letting you create unique wedding favors, decorations, and more.
However, if you have a smaller budget, but need the size and don't need to cut fabrics or leather, a Cricut Explore machine is a great all-rounder excellent option. It handles most DIY wedding ideas, especially projects using vinyl or iron-on materials. In fact, many of our wedding DIYs made with Cricut were done on an Explore machine.
Both machines can score and fold materials, making it easy to create intricate invitations, Cricut-made table numbers, and other paper crafts.
And for beginner-friendly Cricut wedding projects like temporary tattoos or the handful of adhesive vinyl or heat transfer vinyl projects, Joy Xtra is a fabulous addition to your DIYing. It's smaller in width, so bulk making might take a bit longer, but for more one-off or simple projects, it's a mighty machine.
With either Cricut, you can create stunning, personalized DIY projects for your special day!
Cheers! What better way to celebrate all your ladies than with some personalized stemless champagne glasses? Outdoor vinyl is water-resistant and the toughest of all vinyls out there. Cricut has some great basic colors or you can find the wedding world's favorites of gold, copper, and silver on Amazon. (After you make them, just remind your gals to hand wash their glasses! Outdoor vinyl is strong and mighty, but not immortal!)
One of the biggest classic trends in the wedding world that has been around quite some time are the newlyweds chair signs. Whether it's "Bride and Bride" or "Mr. and Mrs." signage, there's something about this little detail tradition that people can't get enough of. Most couples either stick with signs made out of wood or thick paper, and those are perfect to personalize with your own wording or couple's message! Going nautical? "His Mermaid" and "Her Captain." Going fairy tale? "King" and "King." Possibilities are endless when you know which vinyl color matches your color theme!
Like most Southern brides and grooms, we sure do love us some monograms... it's probably our most favorite part about using the Cricut machine! It's pretty much monograms on demand, all day, every day. Not only were these modern monograms on the favor tags cut especially for her wedding, the bride also cut the boutique shape of the balsa wood tags, too! (If using balsa wood or other thicker materials like it, be sure to use Cricut's deep cut blade in the machine!)
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Photography: Chelsea LaVere | Coordination: Sunkissed Events | Favor Tags: DIY by Bride
With so many ideas out there, couples no longer have to stick with poster board or traditionally framed seating charts for their guests. For the DIY magicians, you can play with acrylic, wood, fabric, and so many other materials to help organize and communicate to your guests on where they will be seated. The particular example above is perfect for a beach wedding because it's heavy, shows off the oceanside scenery, paper is inside of the acrylic frame and won't be messed up by the sand or wind! So think of venue logistics before deciding on your material and explore cutting out various materials to make your seating chart happen!
From familiar street names to cities visited together to traditional numbers, wedding table numbers help communicate to your guests where to sit (and you'd be surprised by how many do appreciate guidance with this instead of the awkward "Uhh where do I sit?" looking around!). Have a little fun with designs, names, and symbols on wood, metal, plastic, fabric, and even glass bottles. Cricut has vinyls of all colors to make creativity even more accessible. The hardest part is figuring out what you want to do!
Felt is not just for kiddo crafts! It's such a versatile material that allows you to literally create beautiful sculptures and art with if you so choose. Or rather more simply, adorable cake or pie toppers for your bridal shower or wedding day! Cricut can cut fun shapes and letters out of your felt. The trick? You need to stiffen the felt and use the deep cut blade for crisp cut-outs. (This "how to cut felt with Cricut" article is a great starting point if you go this route.)
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Photography: Maria Grace Photography | Styling: The DIY Bridal Network
Pretty up those flatware sets for your rehearsal dinner! The easiness of iron-on/heat-transfer vinyl is a huge draw especially if you decide to use more luxurious materials like leather or more delicate fabrics like muslin. Cut out your date or design and iron! That's it.
Whether you decide to use traditional materials like paper or unconventional ones like oyster shells, place cards are meant to be personalized and created just for that person you invited! This talented Cricut-loving bride decided to use adhesive foil and Mod Podge to create her oyster beauties.
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Photography: Chelsea LaVere | Coordination: Sunkissed Events | Oyster Place Cards: DIY by Bride
Start the wedding day off right with fun personalized t-shirts for you and your ladies! It's the little things that help set the happy vibes while getting ready on the big day, and specially designed tops are one way to do it! Whether they're cheeky or sweet, Cricut Design Space makes it easy to whip up any phrase for any kind of shirt. Fact: Gold and Glitter Iron-On material totally exist, and you will love it.
If you don't have calligraphy skills, then you're going to quickly fall in love that Cricut will write things out for you in whatever way you tell it to in whatever font you want! Cut out your reception menu shapes, add the embellishments, and get the machine to do the writing for you. Written perfection every time. (You can even write out mailing addresses on your wedding invitation envelopes!)
Headed to a tropical bachelorette getaway? Get the celebration started with personalized luggage tags with a theme! Using Design Space clipart, our yellow flamingo-emblazoned travel tags were all created within minutes on the Cricut Design mobile app with a few scraps of leftover vinyl. It doesn't take much to transform little details!
While our pretty sample photo was all written by hand, if your skill set is not calligraphy, then Cricut to the rescue! These are perfect especially if you're having a modern small and intimate wedding, send out beauties crafted out of clear acrylic and some vinyl.
We're a wee bit obsessed with bridal shower favors since they're so easy to make when you know your theme. For coffee lovers or winter celebrations, our cozies with a touch of iron-on prettiness is a great "I can totally use again!" after the event. So whether they are cozies, sweet treats, or goodie bags, the range of iron-on colors are too fun to experiment with!
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Photography: Chelsea LaVere | Felt: Benzie Design via Etsy | Felt Flowers: The Grey Rose via Etsy
Most of us love multi-purposed things, especially when it comes to a wedding day and you want little leftovers afterwards. This crafty bride used her Cricut to create champagne glass tags that not only communicated where her guests to go, but to keep their glasses afterwards as their favors!
Around these wedding parts, cornhole boards are pretty much like having wedding cake at a wedding reception. It's just kinda expected when you have an outdoor wedding! Since they're pretty popular especially here in Virginia, you can find cornhole boards available most anywhere either locally or online. Add you own monogram, wedding date, or wedding logo to those boards and get some coordinating toss bags! (Be sure to get the outdoor vinyl and not regular! It'll last longer at your new home together as newlyweds for your future gaming nights!)
Many thanks to Cricut for sponsoring this wedding roundup and their support! And while the disclaimer is that Tidewater and Tulle was sponsored through compensation to write this, these words and our obsession love for the brand are all our own.
