Wishing trees are a beautiful alternative to the traditional wedding guestbook. Rather than signing a book or a photo, guests write little messages on cards then hang them from branches gathered together in a vase.

Bare tree branches

Spray paint (optional)

Planter or vase

Floral foam or decorative pebbles

Cards

Clear wire or ribbon

Beads, crystals and/or faux flowers (optional)

1. You can start by spray painting your branches, silver or white look great, or just leave them natural if you prefer.

2. Place the branches in your chosen container. If this is glass, secure them with heavy pebbles. Or if you are using a planter you can use floral foam and then cover with the decorative pebbles on top.

3. Cut out your wishing cards and punch a hole to hang them with a little ribbon or fishing wire. Watch out for our FREE wishing card download next week!

4. Finally you can decorate the branches with beads, crystals or faux flowers. We finished our branches off with little origami cherry blossoms from this weeks DIY wedding project.

Belly bands are the quick and easy way to add that extra bit of elegance to your wedding invitations. It's a beautiful way to package together your invite, rsvp card, any loose inserts and envelope by wrapping a strip of paper or fabric around. You can use plain or decorative paper, finish off with some ribbon or attach a seal or monogram. You can even use belly bands to wrap around your wedding favors and transform an otherwise simple gift into a work of art!

It couldn't be easier. Just cut strips of your chosen paper or fabric, roughly 1/3 of the height of your largest insert is a good guide. Wrap it around the invitation and secure with a little double sides sticky tape on the back.

To help with your DIY endeavours, belly bands are now available in the 'i do' it yourself online shop to co-ordinate with all of our designs. From just $10, check them out and unleash your creative streak!

We're now on felt! Creative Monsoon has joined New Zealand handmade site felt.co.nz so we can get our groovy kiwi t shirts and photography out there. Check out our new online store.

Today we have the prettiest little DIY wedding project - a beautiful paper cherry blossom garland. We followed some very simple steps on Cut out and Keep, found here, to create our very own pretty paper flowers. We made sakura blossoms in two different sizes using different shades of pink paper, and finished off by threading some cotton to hang our spring garland. Perfect! You could even scatter them on tables like these heart shaped ones below, click here to see the instructions from Martha Stewart.