Flower girl baskets

One of my first projects on a budget for my wedding was to make some baskets for my two flower girls -- the two adorable daughters of one of my cousins. They will be ages 4 and 2 at the time of the wedding and I'm so excited for them to be there!

However adorable your flower girls are, let's be honest, a basket for a flower girl is not something to be spending a lot of money on. Everyone will be focused on the girls carrying them, so why spend $30 on each basket? I'll detail how I made my two little flower girls their baskets for just $7 total.

My inspiration for these baskets started while browsing Pinterest (what else?). I found a picture of a basket on Etsy that I loved! But like I've said before, why pay a ton of money for something you can easily make yourself? Making the baskets myself also allowed me to adapt the basket to fit the theme and colors of my wedding perfectly.

I started with buying baskets at the thrift store. Since I just needed small, simple baskets, they cost me just 49 cents a piece. Yes, that's right: total cost for two baskets: $1. Then I stopped over at a hardware store on the way home and got a can of cream-colored spray paint for about $5. After a few coats of paint, the baskets were looking nice (and now I have a mostly-full can of spray paint to use for other wedding-related items).

Next, I needed some embellishment. At Hobby Lobby, I picked up a spool of dark green ribbon for the baskets -- conveniently, the same ribbon we will be using for our DIY flowers, so everything stays consistent. Cost: $1 (we bought it on a week when Hobby Lobby had 50% off their spools of ribbon sale).

I took the ribbon home, and with some hot glue, I wrapped the handle to add a little embellishment to the basket. I needed to add some flowers, so I made some roses out of sheet music (I pull it from an old hymnal I found sitting in our garage), since that will be a theme throughout the wedding decor (I used this tutorial --> http://www.instructables.com/id/Sheet-Music-Flowers/step8/You-are-finished/). Cost: Free! Lastly, I tucked in two little tails of ribbon beneath the flowers with hot glue.

For only $7 and not very much work, I have two adorable baskets for my flower girls to carry down the aisle. I also watched Hobby Lobby's sales and picked up a big box of pink silk rose petals for 50% off!