Remember this wedding with the gorgeous paper cranes they hung form the trees? (first pic below also) Well, after my post the other day I was thinking about this again and how much I loved the idea of hanging paper cranes – hanging paper anything actually! There is an old Japanese legend that folding one thousand paper cranes and you will be granted a wish – I love this.
Hanging paper cranes works for an outdoor wedding, a modern wedding in a loft space, or even a barn wedding. There are lots of ways you can incorporate them to work with your theme. You can choose different colors – all white, mix two colors, origaimi paper, newspaper, even magazines! So many options. You can string them with fishing line, twine, or white string. Here is an easy tutorial to make the cranes and here is one with some hints to help string them. And if you start doing this early, you can work on these while you watch tv at night – or have a party and have a bunch of your friends over – I helped a friend with this. It was fun and we got a bunch done in one night.
{flickr, flickr, Kirsten Ellis Beaux Arts Photographie via Once Wed, woodward + rick}
You don’t have to limit it to cranes either. What about hearts or butterflies or even birds? If you don’t want to have 1000 for the Japanese tradition, what about creating a heart for every day you and your fiance have been together? I think that would be super sweet. Is anyone planning on hanging paper cranes, or hearts, or something else at their wedding?
So beautiful. What an elegant touch to an outdoor wedding. I can just imagine these catching the wind on a breezy summer day…
I love this idea. I think I’m going to try to incorporate them in my wedding…we’ll see how many i make!
Beautiful! I am thinking of decorating with cranes in my wedding too. I love the clothespin idea!
I love the image with the colored clothes pins :)
Wonderful ideas and photos! I got most of my inspiration for my reception decor and layout from your site- awesome ideas!!
thanks Sarah! :)
I just finished folding over 1,000 paper cranes. Now I just have to figure out what to do with them, and this is a great idea. Thanks