Wedding money envelope: how to choose or do it yourself?

No wedding is complete without gifts. Someone presents furniture sets, a service, household appliances, and someone - money so that young people can dispose of them at their own discretion. You can hand over a “rustling” gift in a beautiful printed wedding envelope or make such an envelope for wedding money with your own hands.

The appearance of the product should correspond to the holiday: be pompous, with delicate and satin details, beads, voluminous hearts and doves, contain the inscriptions "Happiness", "Love and understanding", "Happy wedding", comic advice on how to dispose of the amount ( for example, “Make an old dream come true”, “Pass it on to your daughter and son”) and more.

Everyone can make an original handmade envelope. The main thing is to have a little diligence and time. Such an unusual present will not go unnoticed by the newlyweds and guests of the holiday. You can design the product at your discretion, borrowing interesting author's ideas on one of the thematic forums or inventing something of your own. On your own hand-made product, you can put down the names of young people or just initials enclosed in hearts, and they will know for sure that you made this festive accessory exclusively for their celebration.

The edges of a handmade envelope can be made not straight, but wavy; add voluminous decorations to the front side - this will add romance to the product. In the color scheme, you should focus on pastel colors: pink, pale blue, sand, white.

Products using the scrapbooking technique look very beautiful and unusual. The essence of the method is cutting a volumetric pattern from thick cardboard.

This technique is not difficult to master. You can watch several master classes on the Internet, practice and start creating a wedding envelope.

You will need:

• pattern;
• scissors;
• decor elements;
• pieces of fabric;
• ruler;
• glue;
• pencil.

First, you need to carefully calculate the size of the envelope, make a pattern, outline the location of the hole (standard or on the side), think about the option of the lock and the relief of the sides of the envelope.

Using a pattern, cut out a similar layout from white or colored cardboard. It is better that the material is not too dense, but also not "liquid", so that the shape holds well, but it is not too difficult to bend along the outlined lines. Glue the edges of the envelope with Moment glue.

For decor, you can choose whatever you deem necessary and find in the handicraft store: beads, satin ribbons, glitter paper, colorless glue, beads, rhinestones. On the front side of the envelope, you can depict wedding rings, and all the inscriptions can be done in handwritten ink with monograms. The rich decor is ideal for a festive event, and the envelope will look very stylish and sophisticated.

Decorations that you will make using the scrapbooking technique should be well thought out in advance. This applies to the location of all elements and their appearance. Most often, for the decoration of wedding envelopes, floral motifs, lace ornament and short congratulatory inscriptions are used ("Congratulations", "Happy wedding", "Advice and love", "Happiness"). By the way, flowers can be made not only from cardboard, but also from corrugated paper. Such "quivering" material will make the flowers almost alive. To create them, you need to roll a triangular piece of corrugated paper into a cone, and unfold the edges outward, imitating flower petals. For fixing it is enough to use 1-2 drops of PVA or Moment glue. It is advisable to make several of the same colors in the same color (white or red) and attach them to the envelope. You can complement the "flower meadow" with lace, sparkles, decorative stones.

Inside the envelope, you can also put a mini-postcard (purchased or also made on your own) with a short poetic greeting text. The donor's signature is encouraged. It can be inked using a stencil and decorated with golden glitter.

You will learn how to make a beautiful wedding envelope for money by watching the following video.

Today it is very fashionable to hold weddings in the Provence style. The wedding envelope can also be made in accordance with the theme of the celebration.

Style features:

• pastel shades (cream, lilac, white, light blue, pale green);
• floral patterns;
• lace elements;
• inscriptions with monograms and curls;
• a sprig of lavender.

An envelope made as described above is taken as a base. Lace is attached to the front side of the product. The envelope is tied with a string, and dried lavender is attached in place for the traditional bow.

If you have very little time to make an envelope, you can buy a floral print and completely decorate the cardboard surface. The task can be further simplified if the envelope is not made from ordinary cardboard, but immediately from a designer one. Cardboard with a geometric pattern will look original. It will not require additional decorations - just a short congratulatory inscription will be enough. If you wish, you can decorate the upper opening part of the envelope with flowers and beads. It is recommended to use a glue gun to fix the elements.

A money envelope for a wedding with a butterfly will look very gentle. The envelope is made from design cardboard as described above. You will need another sheet of cardboard to wrap the envelope with. In the center of the cardboard "wrapper" you need to draw a rather large butterfly (the size can vary from 5 to 8 centimeters). Contours along the inside along the wings. First, cut the shapes along the outer contours, and then with a sharp clerical knife along the inner ones. The result is an envelope with a voluminous bow tie. On both sides of the butterfly, cut out two wide strips (about 2 cm wide) in a cardboard "wrapper", glue them. The butterfly can be decorated with one or more beads to match.

You can make an original postal envelope with your own hands. For this, medium density cardboard is taken. One side of the future envelope is cut out of it. A cardboard pattern is applied to decorative paper (for example, metallic or for decoupage), traced and cut out. The cut part is inserted into a zip envelope, secured with a glue stick. The front side of the envelope can be decorated in any way you like.

For those who really want to invest a part of themselves in creating a wedding celebration, but do not like creative work, we can recommend making a simple wedding envelope. A ready-made, pre-purchased envelope is taken as a basis. A commensurate piece of decorative paper is glued to the front side (it can even be wallpaper) or an abstract geometric pattern is applied using transparent glue and glitter. Above is attached any congratulatory inscription, pre-printed on the printer: "Sea of ​​love", "Happy wedding", "Happiness to the young" or others. The envelope is decorated with beads in the color of decorative paper and floral elements.

To create an unusual wedding envelope it is necessary to take into account the recommendations from professionals.

1. For the manufacture of an envelope, it is better to choose paper and cardboard in light colors.
2. Patterns can be applied to the surface of the product with ink, paints or helium paste.
3. With a hole punch, you can make figurines of angels, butterflies, flowers and others. They should be knocked out of decorative paper. They are fixed on the front side of the product with a glue gun in any order.
4. In order for the upper opening part of the envelope to acquire its original shape, you need to use decorative scissors with a wavy edge or a border.
5. Lace patterns are also produced by using designer scissors.
6. To decorate the front of the envelope, you can use photos of young people, their relatives and friends. It is important that the photographs are printed on plain and not photo paper. The latter will complicate the work on the decorative design of photographs.