A tisket, A tasket...A cute handmade flower girl basket!

My wedding project list seems to be getting smaller and smaller by the day which is an awesome feeling considering in 3 days, we're at the 4 month mark away from the wedding! Holy smokes, how did this creep up so fast?!!! I can't believe we've already been engaged for 8 months and only have 4 to go! All the wedding blogs and magazines I've read all say how fast the time goes while engaged and planning the wedding....and now I couldn't agree more! It's been fun and exciting, stressful and emotional, and we've had lots of happy and sad tears! This has really proven to us though how well we work together and help to balance each other out which makes us really look forward to our wedding day! Now, I'll show off my latest wedding project! The flower girl basket for my niece, Teagan!

Here's what you'll need:
-a "basket box"
-paint and paintbrushes
-sand paper
-hot glue gun
-any fun extra to decorate it with (I'll point those out in the pictures)
-And Jordan says "a steady hand"

Total cost: I had all of the paint and brushes and my mom got the box from Hobby Lobby and made the tulle flowers....so I'm estimating a total cost of $10ish on average

Total time: 2-3 hours

Start off with a plain, smooth "basket box"
as I like to call it!

Paint it any base color of your choice.
I used the paint left over that we got for free!
And I enjoyed a Shock Top Lemon Shandy while crafting :)

After sanding it off around the edges and in the middle
(to give it sort of a rustic look)
I free handed the words: Here Comes The Bride with a pencil

Very slowly and steadily, I traced along the words....
a short stiff bristle brush works best for this!

Once it all dried, I used the lace off of the flower girl basket
from my parents wedding and wrapped the handle with it!
Then I hot glued the tulle flowers onto the side of the handle

purple and green flower "poofs" on the side
to finish it off!

And that's it! Super easy and so stinking cute! Plus, a fun wedding heirloom to hold onto to pass on for future weddings! Who isn't going to love seeing my 4-year old niece Teagan carrying this down the aisle?! Now I just need to pick up some petals for her to throw and she'll be ready to strut her stuff....I'm praying that she doesn't chicken out now the day of the wedding!