Wedding baskets: types, tips for making and decorating

As usual, a wedding celebration should always be held with a certain pomp and chic. Wedding organizers and relatives of both parties make every effort to ensure that this celebration was held in the most original and beautiful style.

When planning an ideal event, I want to take into account all the nuances of decorating wedding paraphernalia, including such details as a wedding basket for rose petals or cash gifts.

Wicker baskets made of various materials are considered traditional for Russian weddings. However, today handmade wedding baskets decorated with satin and massive decor are gaining popularity. The same products can be rented in wedding paraphernalia. Many people want to see their own production baskets at the festival of relatives, where a piece of sincerity and soul is invested in the decoration process.

Baskets can be for rose petals, for bouquets, for fruits on the table for guests, for table decoration for the newlyweds. The modern trend is that they give gifts in creative baskets for the wedding, which looks stylish and original.

In India, for example, after a marriage ceremony, young people thank the monks with a fruit basket.

An interesting tradition of using homemade baskets appeared on German soil. From ancient times in Germany it was customary to steal the bride and hide from the groom in a bar, and while he was looking for a wife, she poured salt and grain from the sewn pockets on the guests of the house with sewn pockets.

In the Caucasus, baskets are used for wedding gifts. Here they continue the tradition of giving the bride and her mother before the celebration.

Turkic and Iranian dzhigits are obliged to give a ransom for the chosen one in the form of a hunch - a weighty gift basket. Now European brides will breathe with envy! It usually takes about a month between the matchmaking and the wedding celebration, and during this period of time, the bridegroom's relatives bring such honeys for the bride with valuable gifts and exquisite sweets with enviable regularity. But that's not all! A week before the celebration, baskets with jewelry, clothes and linen, cosmetics and expensive perfumes are presented.

Baskets are home-made and purchased in specialized stores. Depending on the objectives, they are divided into the following types.

Romantic flower baskets are increasingly becoming part of the decoration of wedding halls. You can arrange flower arrangements in baskets and arrange them in the hall - it will look like the Provence spirit of the French style. Bouquets in baskets can decorate buffet tables.

The magical moment in the wedding ceremony is the pink petals at the feet of the couple. For petals, take delicate miniature baskets. Usually, a wedding accessory is held by children who, according to the script, must go down the carpet path and strew it with petals before leaving the young. Such a product is also suitable for young rings: a child in the garment of an angel is suitable at the moment of delivery of the rings.

Fruit baskets look spectacular on guests' tables. Such compositions create coziness and warmth of hospitality, and also look aesthetically pleasing and appetizing. You can also creatively arrange a gift for young people. Instead of a banal bouquet, you can put exotic fruits in the basket.

The basket itself can serve as a decorative element. Mini-products with names, wishes, script or sweets are put on the plates for guests.

Any celebration in Russia is decorated with spray of a sparkling drink. At the wedding, this symbol must be present. The original table design with bubbly baskets will appeal to all guests. The product for champagne should be deep, steady, have strong handles.

It is considered to be new-fashioned to give young people gifts in designer wrought-iron baskets. They can be performed in the shape of a heart, a carriage, an open umbrella - there are many ideas. The decor is made by various fabrics, bows, flowers. Or gifts are placed in woven products from paper, bamboo, fabric, taking into account the fact that the gift is not weighty. Such gifts to young people are not only pleasant to receive, after which they can be practically used, for example, for a picnic, for interior decoration in a family nest.

Now there is a pleasant tendency to give gifts not only to young people, but also to guests. Young people themselves and their relatives are already taking care of this: it can be souvenirs with wedding symbols, postcards with photos of the newlyweds, and much more. For gifts, guests can put miniature designer baskets on the table. Similar items can also be used as a repository of cash gifts for young people. Only for money, the product should be suitable for the size of notes. For this case, the basket can be equipped with a lid.

The benefit of the Internet is open to all. Even in RuNet there are many articles with detailed photo instructions, video tutorials with all kinds of workshops on making various baskets.

The easiest way: decorating the finished wickerwork with satin ribbons, airy organza, feathers, down, beads, rhinestones. You can show creativity and design baskets in the style of the season in which the celebration is held.It can be various cones, spruce branches, rowan berries - for a winter wedding; golden leaves - for the autumn event; flowers, buds, willow branches, mimosa, butterflies - for the spring-summer celebration. Such a gift will undoubtedly cry not only young, but also pleasantly surprise guests. To decorate the interior with baskets, it is necessary to take into account the general style of the event.

If there is an opportunity and time, then a wedding basket can be crafted from scratch, taking into account general recommendations.

For the base of the basket, you can take a plastic basin of the right size and drape it with a synthetic winterizer and a cloth, attach handles from wire and finish with satin. So that the fabric does not slip on the handle, it is necessary to sew it to it with monofilament. In the case when organza is used in the decor, it must be borne in mind that the edges of the fabric crumble. It is necessary to scorch it gently with a conventional lighter. Any elements are suitable for decoration: rhinestones, plush dolls, flowers, fluff it. P.

The product can be knitted from vines, bamboo, rods, wire and even from newspaper tubes. For flowers, the wicker basket will be the best solution, since a drainage system with water is placed in it for living bouquets.

Wicker baskets can be left without drapery or covered with fabric half or whole. For decor, bows, lace, pearls, down, feathers, precious stones, fabric flowers are used. You can decorate the decoration in the form of flowers from foamiran - this is a fairly malleable material designed specifically for needlework.

The decoration of the hall for the celebration with the help of such an accessory as a basket brings the atmosphere of a kindred warmth, home comfort. This atmosphere brings guests together and creates a festive mood. Here are some examples of wedding baskets with pieces of soul from sincere masters.

A delicate product in a white satin, fabric roses on swan feathers and rhinestones - I immediately want to see such a basket in the hands of a little angel, who slowly showers the way for young roses with rose petals.

Original decoration of a basket for a young gift: a square basket shape draped with beige satin; tea roses with snow-white pearls; unusual lace in the idea of ​​bird cherry earrings. For example, a fairly roomy product. Smaller options can be used for champagne bottles on the buffet table.

At the wedding basket, you can even replace the traditional tray with the wedding rings. A mini-product for rings with red ribbons and roses will appeal to anyone.

A basket in the form of a green boat with two pigeons on the handle is very handy for fruit on the table. White satin ribbon and string with pearls will give harmony and a solemn accent to the composition.

Gift baskets for guests are made so that they fit neatly on the buffet table. There is no need for an abundance of rhinestones and feathers, it is enough to make an accent succinctly, for example, in the form of a satin bow with an unusual brooch.

Product for champagne on the table of the newlyweds: lace and roses are in perfect harmony with the wicker basket pattern. After the event, the couple can use the basket for a romantic picnic.

A workshop on making baskets is waiting for you in the video below.