Embracing a Healthy Family: wedding on a budget

My sister was married this past July in my backyard. The yard is big and gorgeous as it looks like a mini park. We put up decorations and planted flowers. I wanted to make it a special occasion so I created keepsakes from Zazzle. This was a wedding on a budget so we looked for many ways to cut corners.

The first thing I made were magnets:

After still trying to decide which theme to keep, I made some stickers just for fun:

I made a matching bag to hold all of the things I made her:

Lastly, I made the invitations to coordinate with the rest of the items:

Even though no one other than our immediate family was able to attend since they were visiting from Indiana and we lived in Georgia, it was a nice event. My husband was in Iraq so he missed out as well.

I would have loved to have made the cake but I'm not that talented. I was able to have a very nice retired Army spouse make a beautiful cake: